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Government and its bureaucracy are not perfect, and never has been in this self-governed society, here at the local level, at our state level, and at our federal level, therefore, it is incumbent upon all elected politicians to seek a comfortable level of representation for our constituents.
Published: Tuesday, January 27th, 2026 @ 12:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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"The Trump administration is taking bold action to break up the federal education bureaucracy and return education to the states.”
Published: Wednesday, November 26th, 2025 @ 2:55 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Bureaucracy is the enemy of conservatism
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 8:46 pm
By: Nick Fritz
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wokeness including DEI an CRT are pervasive under Biden DOD
Published: Saturday, July 20th, 2024 @ 5:54 pm
By: John Steed
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One of the biggest champions of UFO transparency in Congress has reservations about the much-hyped disclosure legislation from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that is now being considered as part of the conference process
Published: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 10:58 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Three charts show how bad administrative bloat gets when government bureaucracy takes over.
Published: Monday, July 18th, 2022 @ 7:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Economist Barry Brownstein writes a sobering piece at the American Institute for Economic Research on “Why There Is a Civic and Moral Duty to Oppose Tyrannical Bureaucracies.”
Published: Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 10:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control system has a new commissioner. It gets continued reassurance from its boards and warehouse operator that they’ll get it right and, to that end, newly created groups meant to help them do so.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 8:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Certificate of Need laws give the state control of medical resources.
Published: Thursday, March 11th, 2021 @ 10:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In many ways since its inception, the sheer size and scale of the bureaucracy that is the European Union has been presented as the solution to any problem faced by countries in Europe.
Published: Thursday, February 4th, 2021 @ 10:18 am
By: Daily Wire
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Matthew Continetti writes at the Washington Free Beacon about one unwelcome change associated with a Joe Biden administration.
Published: Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 @ 2:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced legislation on Wednesday that would move most federal agencies out of Washington, D.C. and into a variety of regions throughout the United States that have been deemed economically distressed.
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 @ 7:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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President Donald J. Trump is protecting Americans by restoring transparency and fairness to the bureaucracy.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2019 @ 1:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Amid little fanfare, yesterday Governor Cooper’s announced his new Hometown Strong initiative to help rural North Carolina communities
Published: Sunday, February 4th, 2018 @ 2:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Like just about every university and college these days, mine — N.C. State University — spends millions each year on a sprawling bureaucracy advocating racial, gender, and other types of “cultural” diversity
Published: Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 @ 1:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Trump has a strong agenda to cut the red tape restraining the economy, but like officials at the state level he faces an army of entrenched opponents
Published: Friday, September 1st, 2017 @ 11:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Donald J. Trump is working to reform our tax system so that Americans are treated fairly and can keep more of their hard-earned money, and companies can bring jobs back to the United States.
Published: Friday, September 1st, 2017 @ 6:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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One item in Senate's $22.9 billion spending plan isn't budgeted to cost the state a penny, with advocates arguing it will reduce government bureaucracy and improve access to medical services
Published: Monday, May 15th, 2017 @ 9:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Military members who have earned an occupational license from another state shouldn't have to wait around as North Carolina bureaucrats decide about granting a license here, some legislators say
Published: Friday, February 17th, 2017 @ 9:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, spoke at the confirmation hearing for General James Mattis to discuss eliminating the bureaucratic inefficiencies plaguing the Pentagon
Published: Thursday, January 12th, 2017 @ 8:35 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The number of non-academic administrators at colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, far outpacing the growth in students and faculty
Published: Wednesday, December 14th, 2016 @ 3:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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After a decade of controversy and unnecessary bureaucracy - the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is rescinding their Notice of Violation of the Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for Rose Acre Farms
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2016 @ 1:01 pm
By: Bill Cook
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Here is a starting point for your consideration on my previous post of statements which provided no answers.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 9:07 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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What IS a Republican? Is it merely someone who marks an 'R' on their voter registration card? Is it someone who seeks to protect the common people from the excesses of government bureaucracy?
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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E. M. Forster's frightening short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) depicts a post-apocalyptic world in which all human activity has been subsumed by a global digital network similar to the Internet (except that Forster's version is controlled by a worldwide government bureaucracy)...
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 2:40 am
By: John William Pope Center
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"We've got a loaded docket, so let's go ahead and get started," Senator Louis Pate, Co-Chairman of the Senate Health Care Committee, said to a crowded room
Published: Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 @ 10:52 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina requires occupational licensing for more than 700 professions, which generates an absurd amount of bureaucracy and red tape. Occupational licensing forces people to pay a fee, and often go through needless additional training, in order to legally practice their profession in the state
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 8:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A U.S. Supreme Court decision that many opponents of restrictive occupational licensing rules saw as a victory for small-scale entrepreneurs may wind up being a setback, as the General Assembly's Program Evaluation Division wants to create an Occupational Licensing Commission to supervise...
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 @ 5:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There was a time when the GOP was recognized as the group who would cut your taxes, shrink government, and back the bureaucracy off of your case.
Published: Sunday, June 1st, 2014 @ 4:08 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Actually they were taken during a repo / collection action carried out by federal agents against American citizens in Nevada.
Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 @ 2:15 am
By: Brant Clifton
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When you've spent 40 years inside the state bureaucracy, it's understandable that your world-view might be a little disjointed.
Published: Monday, December 9th, 2013 @ 7:47 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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McClatchy and the other surviving cartels in the dwindling, money-bleeding mainstream media are working overtime to try to sell us on the "fact" that the average American is furious with the GOP over a 17 percent freeze in federal spending during the first two weeks of October.
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 @ 11:36 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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House Bill 803, Healthy and High Performance Schools Act, is a lengthy bill filled with mind-numbing amounts of detail in an attempt to micro-manage the lives of schoolchildren.
Published: Sunday, June 30th, 2013 @ 7:55 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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This week, The US Supreme Court told Congress and the federal bureaucracy that it can finally stop punishing the South for The Civil War and The Jim Crow Era. The Left threw a fit.
Published: Sunday, June 30th, 2013 @ 6:36 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Guess what? Evidence is suggesting that toll road projects - like the one proposed for I-77 in Mecklenburg County - may not be the budgetary magic bullet that the state bureaucracy is hoping for. ABC NewsChannel 11 has the story.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2013 @ 1:24 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It's absolutely refreshing to hear an elected official championing the supremacy of the free market over the iron-fist of the bureaucracy.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 4:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We've got all kinds of folks at the federal and state level opining on this issue. (Never mind the anemic economic growth, the smothering bureaucracy, and the record unemployment.)
Published: Thursday, January 31st, 2013 @ 8:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Across North Carolina our teachers are being asked to do more with less, and have been for many years.
Published: Wednesday, October 31st, 2012 @ 10:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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