Tag Archives: North Carolina

News & Record’s Statist Response To Home Schooling Searches

Posted on October 16, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

I was under the weather and out of action yesterday but perhaps might have rallied to respond to this article at the News and Record had I seen it: Home school inspections would intrude on privacy?

A day ago, the Lt. Governor’s office sent out press releases alerting the public that NDPE (Division of Non-Public Education) might be thinking about bringing back random spot inspections and searches of home schools. NDPE and the Lt. Governor’s office then issued a joint statement saying such inspections would not happen.

The article, written by Doug Clark, seems to take aim at the Lt. Governor for advocating the privacy rights of home schoolers. The article reports the facts of the case in the first couple of paragraphs, then it turns a bit statist sounding. From the article with emphasis added: Continue reading →

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UPDATED – Homeschools Being Subjected To Random Inspections?

Posted on October 14, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

Are homeschools in North Carolina going to be subjected to random searches? It looks like the NDPE (Division of Non-Public Education) might be resuming just such a practice. I’ve written before that we’d be seeing homeschools come under more scrutiny. Common Core is becoming wildly unpopular and widely criticized, so could this be the start of a crackdown of parents trying to flee it?

Via press release from the Lt. Governor’s office: Continue reading →

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#ShutUppery and the Drums of #WAR

Posted on September 18, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

So, #ShutUppery took an ugly turn and this happened to me:

Who’s a ‘Bully,’ @GregFlynn? Democrat Operative Targets North Carolina Mom : The Other McCain Continue reading →

Posted in A.P. Dillon (LL1885), Moral Monday, POLITICS NC, THE LEFT | Tagged , , | 28 Comments

PPP Flawed Methodology Not A Bug, But A Feature?

Posted on September 14, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

In my travels this morning, I spied an article at New Republic about Public Policy Polling entitled, There’s Something Wrong With America’s Premier Liberal Pollster – The problem with PPP’s methodology. The article points out that PPP has been deleting questions to avoid criticism, following no consistent methodology, bad sampling and, in essence, weighting questions to get the results they like.
Excerpts with emphasis added:

After examining PPP’s polls from 2012 and conducting a lengthy exchange with PPP’s director, I’ve found that PPP withheld controversial elements of its methodology, to the extent it even has one, and treated its data inconsistently….. Continue reading →

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More Shiny Objects From Kay Hagan

Posted on September 13, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

Senator Hagan? Have the Koch Brothers declared their intent to run in North Carolina? She keep sending me emails about them…

This hypocrisy of Hagan’s is getting a bit tedious, especially when she’s accepted money from all over the country. More of Hagan’s campaign of hate, patterned on Obama’s campaign fundraising strategy: Find a dissenting target, make the people afraid of them and then pump it for all the money you can.
Hagan’s SQUIRREL!!!!

Hagan isn’t stopping with the eeeeevil Koch Brothers — she needs cover on Obamacare. Senator Hagan supported and still supports it 110%. She wants to make sure you don’t ask her about it though. Behold, the same bullshit talking points coming out of the Navigators and the Obama administration: Continue reading →

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What If NC AFL-CIO Threw A Picket And No One Came?

Posted on August 30, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

Well, T.G.I.F everyone!

We made it though this crazy week of pickets, marches and strikes. Speaking of pickets… This past Sunday I wrote about the upcoming ‘Picket Posh House GOP Fundraiser’ event set up and promoted by the NC AFL-CIO. The picketing went on this past Tuesday. No local media covered it. I even forgot about it until today. On Sunday, I speculated they might have protest fatigue — you know, all the Moral Monday-ing and all, and it looks like perhaps that speculation was right.

Poor sacks. Had to picket waaaaaaay down the entrance road and out on the opposite sidewalk to the Carolina Country Club. Continue reading →

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