Folks who reach under the wrong pile of wood and feel the pain of a copperhead bite can relax just a little on their way to the emergency department.
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2013 @ 1:04 am
By: ECU News Services
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ne hundred years of affliction is a long time. The time has come for tax reform.... No, the time has come for a tax revolution.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 11:45 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The core problem with President Barack Obama's speech on climate change is that it rejects environmental science in favor of the utopian idea that we can, acting collectively, control the weather.
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 @ 10:17 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The slobbering sycophants in the mainstream media steno pool are trumpeting a story from sea to shining sea that the economy is EXPANDING.
Published: Friday, May 3rd, 2013 @ 9:53 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Walter Jones, Jr. has got quite a cult following. The folks who read "Mother Jones" AND The Ron Paul fan club are both swooning over him.
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2013 @ 11:07 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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SNL mocked her accent. She talks “funny”, so she must be an idiot — Just like George W. Bush. You know, THAT guy from Texas with the degrees from Harvard and Yale. Bill Clinton talks “funny” too, but he’s OK because (1) he agrees with us and (2) he’s married to our hero Butch Rodham.
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2012 @ 11:01 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Eight years ago, hours after George W. Bush won a second term as president and Mike Easley won a second term as governor, I wrote in this space that Republicans in North Carolina had essentially created two separate parties.
Published: Monday, November 5th, 2012 @ 8:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Democrats and Republicans in this election year continue to debate the optimal level, type, and distribution of the tax burden, they are paying insufficient attention to what I believe is a greater impediment to economic growth: the rising burden of regulations.
Published: Saturday, October 13th, 2012 @ 2:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina taxpayers could be out almost $9 billion if the Bush-era tax rates and a patch for the Alternative Minimum Tax aren't extended, a report by the Tax Foundation says. Nationwide, the total tax relief is estimated to be $403 billion, or about 2.7 percent of the economy.
Published: Monday, August 6th, 2012 @ 1:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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American politicians, parties, and interest groups spend relatively little on their electoral campaigns. The side that spends the most money doesn't always win. And if we really want to improve our political system, we'll know we're succeeding if total spending on campaigns goes way up.
Published: Monday, July 16th, 2012 @ 8:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" gives us a slow, drawn look at his last days as a paranoid sociopath and the aftermath that rewarded his place in history as a folk hero.
Published: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 @ 12:17 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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All great religions, and other strict disciplines enforce a code that provides structure to establish the tradition, which will endure the ages.
Published: Friday, May 20th, 2011 @ 12:21 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Felix was a hermit, who stayed to himself, and kept himself locked up inside to the point that no one knew the truth, in the history, of who he was, and how he got that way.
Published: Saturday, April 2nd, 2011 @ 11:48 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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In this edition of our comedy opus, we discuss humor that is radical Islam.
Published: Friday, September 17th, 2010 @ 11:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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His speech to the Beaufort County Democratic Party Executive Committee attempted to cast a silver lining around the past two years, so that he and his Democratic colleagues can retain power.
Published: Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 @ 5:33 pm
By: BCN
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President Barack Obama cares more for his muddle-headed constituents than he does about the environment. He proves this daily with his sweeping inaction in the Gulf.
Published: Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 @ 11:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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