As governors, we all sort of get together and we have a good time. But we also - we're going to accomplish a lot. This going to be a very good meeting.
Published: Friday, March 8th, 2019 @ 5:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I'm honored to be joined here by thousands of conservatives in our nation's capital, but I also want to give a shout-out to all those great conservatives watching across this country.
Published: Monday, March 4th, 2019 @ 10:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The promise of “Medicare for All” polls well. But if Democrats endorse the concept in large numbers, and make it or some other large-scale expansion of government health plans a centerpiece of the party’s brand going into the 2020 election cycle, Republicans will be among the prime beneficiaries
Published: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019 @ 4:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Wednesday evening, Tucker Carlson delivered a 15-minute monologue on his Fox News program regarding the future of economics and politics in the United States.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 @ 4:08 pm
By: Daily Wire
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If your taxable income is greater than $60,000, then you are at least a bit better off than the average North Carolinian. But does that make you wealthy?
Published: Thursday, October 25th, 2018 @ 9:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I think we'll start with Secretary Pompeo saying a prayer.
Published: Saturday, August 18th, 2018 @ 1:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As we approach the 4th of July, I plan on celebrating just a few short words included in the First Amendment.
Published: Monday, July 9th, 2018 @ 3:28 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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On Friday, Natalie Hopkinson of Howard University wrote a piece for Huffington Post suggesting that school choice was - you guessed it - racist.
Published: Sunday, March 18th, 2018 @ 11:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If you will bear with me, I will try to bring this post to a point. Memory triggers of past events are often disturbing, but they don't always have to be regardless of what the Google says.
Published: Friday, October 20th, 2017 @ 8:59 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I published the bit of Foolishness below to my Wildly Popular (Or is It?) Foolishness...Or Is It? Blog Site (forii.blogspot.com) in October 2011. If it was Funny back then, it is still Funny today because Silliness is Never Outdated.
Published: Monday, June 26th, 2017 @ 8:47 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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No, I don't want a six-Pack.
Published: Monday, April 24th, 2017 @ 9:15 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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WRAL's Laura Leslie wrote about an Energy Forum held at the Legislature yesterday organized by opponents of renewable energy programs. (Translation from WRAL speak: opponents to taxpayer-funded renewable energy programs.) The central theme of Leslie's article seems to be the famous "Koch Brothers."
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2015 @ 2:40 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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I doubt if there will ever be a robot that can calculate the value of a human life.
Published: Tuesday, August 18th, 2015 @ 3:31 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Conservatives have spent much time in recent years talking about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. Avik Roy, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and opinion editor at Forbes, has a different idea. Roy issued a report in 2014 titled...
Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2015 @ 11:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With most academic fields, we know what they are about. Political science teaches about political systems and their workings; philosophy about how people have thought on questions such as ethics; literature courses have students read and contemplate worthwhile books.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Some progressives continue to push for an increase in the government-mandated minimum wage.
Published: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 11:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A good friend of mine knows my political position = INDEPENDENT who leans Democrat. He also knows that I DISPISE people who use hate and division to get a political advantage.
Published: Sunday, September 7th, 2014 @ 10:34 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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My good friend and mentor, Wayne Martin, sent this to me. I send it to you as just one more example of the way terms like "liberal" and "conservative" are thrown around these days.
Published: Sunday, August 3rd, 2014 @ 11:25 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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It's really sad listening to the folks around the drum circle moaning about Art Pope.
Published: Thursday, July 24th, 2014 @ 11:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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On occasion, we will offer two or more opinion vignettes from Gene Scarborough. These are two of them.
Published: Thursday, May 15th, 2014 @ 3:38 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Don't you love hearing filthy rich people like Diane Feinstein, Jay Rockefeller, and any of the Kennedys raging about the evil rich? Lefties are famous for criticizing, harassing and belittling the rest of us for stuff they do routinely.
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 8:56 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Rob "Mr. Politics" Christensen - who has spent THREE decades at The N&O missing stuff like John Edwards's blonde with the camera, Mike Easley's corruption, and Dennis Wicker stiffing a pizza guy - thinks he has the state Senate's president pro tem ALL FIGURED OUT.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2013 @ 11:55 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A year ago, Duke Cheston of the Pope Center criticized a class in political science at North Carolina State University. Because its presentation of the American political system was clearly biased, his story was titled "Evil Republicans 101." Now we have come across another section of the same...
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2013 @ 10:05 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Chapel Hill is known mainly for two things: (1) Great basketball and (2) loony-tunes lefty nuttiness. Basketball is down a little bit this year.
Published: Monday, March 25th, 2013 @ 3:19 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In this article, I hope to convince grassroots conservatives to unite in the coming year to re-assert founding values and strengthen principles of Liberty and to reject the contorted view of the Constitution that President Barack Obama is pushing on the American people.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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In a past column I described the political debate about North Carolina's economy as a disagreement among three schools of thought about how best to stimulate growth.
Published: Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 @ 5:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This article follows the one I previously wrote, entitled "Who is Really Disenfranchised?" In that article I talked about the incessant claims of "disenfranchisement" of minority voters when no such disenfranchisement exists nor any intent to do so.
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2012 @ 8:49 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Do you suppose anyone in the mainstream press really listens when people speak. Or does their listening tend to be somewhat "selective"??
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2011 @ 10:32 am
By: Jim Bispo
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