What the City Can Do
Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The Pittsburgh Summit 2009 Report is a study prepared by Civitas Consultants, a Washington D.C.-based security consulting firm.
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Perdue Sinks Lower in North Carolina
Political Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new Civitas Institute survey in North Carolina finds just 20% of voters say they would vote to re-elect Gov. Bev Perdue (D), while 62% said they would not and 17% were unsure. Said pollster Francis De Luca: "It's rather remarkable how quickly Gov. Perdue's popularity has dropped. Less than a year on the job and only one in five voters would keep her around."
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NC Poll: Just 20% Would Re-elect Perdue
Real Clear Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new Civitas Institute survey in North Carolina finds Gov. Bev Perdue's (D) favorable rating still net negative, as 32% hold a favorable view of the 2008-elected governor and 38% see her unfavorably. Even worse, if the election were today, just one-fifth of voters say they would vote to re-elect Perdue, the state's first female [...]
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Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop by Adam Bradley | Book Review
Hip Hop Is Read (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop by Adam Bradley (Basic Civitas Books; February, 2009) In the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray , the author Oscar Wilde defended his and all literary works by stating that “there is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” Condemned for his writings’ homoerotic overtones,...
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State Democrats Trying to Close Charter Schools
Guarino (Free subscription) | yesterday
Civitas comments on new rules adopted by the State Board of Education to force charter schools to close if they fail to meet progress goals, or if greater than 60% of students fail to test at or above grade level....
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Labour’s Professional Family De-Valuers
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | yesterday
By David Conway, Civitas Featured prominently in the media this past week have been the views of two powerful Labour apparatchiks. Their reported views do much to explain the dire state to which Labour has reduced Britain during its period in office through a disastrously wrong-headed approach towards the family. One of the apparatchiks is Geoff Mulgan, [...]
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It's Was All Just A Big "Myth-take!"
Walled-In Pond (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the 'poetic" mimicry employed by the Christians to disguise their affinities amid a hostile civitas. Then he turns to literary criticism and historiography ( the Rev.'s a fuuking HUMANIST? Hoocoodanode?--W ): "For whom were the birth narratives written'... What literary device was used by the authors?" for clues to understanding how the texts were used. He finally arrives...
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NC Political Corruption
Guarino (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Chad Adams over at Civitas reflects on the recent legacy of political corruption here in North Carolina. There are ongoing investigations of former Governor Easley and also John Edwards. Questions have recently been raised about former North Carolina Senator Tony...
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Home-schooling parents may face criminal record checks
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... long will it be before they are demanding that all parents are CRB-checked'’ Robert Whelan of the Civitas think-tank said: ‘You can no longer be a parent without a piece of paper from the state. This is a monstrous idea and it shows the danger of taking things to logical extremes.’ A Bill from Children’s Secretary Ed Balls already backs the idea of a home-schooling registration scheme where...
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Home-schooling parents may face criminal record checks
Jesus Lives! (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... long will it be before they are demanding that all parents are CRB-checked'’ Robert Whelan of the Civitas think-tank said: ‘You can no longer be a parent without a piece of paper from the state. This is a monstrous idea and it shows the danger of taking things to logical extremes.’ A Bill from Children’s Secretary Ed Balls already backs the idea of a home-schooling registration scheme where...
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Christmas charity appeal
The Devil's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... of public life... Can a charity that relies on the state remain a charity? In 2007, thinktank Civitas produced a report which revealed the growing dependency of apparently independent institutions. Save the Children, Oxfam, Shelter and the British Red Cross received between 30% and 70% of their money from government. Barnardo's was 78% state funded, Action for Children 88%, while the National...
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The Deterioration of a Once-Great State
Guarino (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... that our state is severely indebted to the federal government for unemployment benefits . From Civitas: What is even more discouraging is that the state appears to have no plan how to pay back the Feds. Officials seem to be hoping that the federal government forgives at least part of the loan, but they fail to comment where they believe the federal government will come up with the money...
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Parents face criminal checks before teaching own children
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... long will it be before they are demanding that all parents are CRB-checked'” Robert Whelan of the Civitas think-tank called the proposal “monstrous” in suggesting that “you can no longer be a parent without a piece of paper from the state.” In June Fiona Nicholson, of support group Education Otherwise, claimed that if the Government were to introduce a registration system it would completely...
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Cameron may weaken on marriage tax penalty plan
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... have shown that British married couples are suffering a heavy marriage tax penalty. Think-tank Civitas said in January that couples in Britain are financially better off if they split up. It said that some families could be up to 20 per cent poorer for staying together. An August report by the Christian group CARE said couples who stay together could lose between £58 and £68 every week....