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What does Independence Day - the 4th of July - mean to you?
Published: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 9:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Presidents’ Day is not just a holiday — it’s a tribute to the men who navigated our nation through its toughest moments.
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2025 @ 10:03 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Perhaps what Independence Day is all about is to reflect on our history and to rekindle our revolutionary spirit every year... our great love of liberty.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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both Democrats and Republicans
Published: Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 @ 7:02 pm
By: John Steed
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The U.S. national debt rose to a staggering $34 trillion for the first time last week, just three months after it surpassed $33 trillion, according to data published by the Treasury Department.
Published: Friday, January 12th, 2024 @ 8:18 am
By: Daily Wire
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After finally tallying the votes from Maricopa County, Arizona has announced that Calvin Coolidge has narrowly defeated John Davis for its three electoral votes.
Published: Sunday, December 25th, 2022 @ 4:17 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Carl Sigman, the lyricist of many of America's most famous love songs, passed from this temporal plane in September of 2000; however, his music lives on, embodied in his beautiful songs of hope and heartbreak.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 7:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Van Morrison covered this Tommy Edwards's classic, "All in the Game", on his classic album, Into the Music, released in 1979.
Published: Friday, December 31st, 2021 @ 8:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Govt experiments on we the people
Published: Saturday, November 6th, 2021 @ 1:22 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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I think of the government as a machine.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 11:16 am
By: Diane Rufino
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We often don’t think of Calvin Coolidge when we think of the greatest American speeches of all time.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2020 @ 2:38 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Let's not just go Trump. Let's go MegaTrump.
Published: Monday, February 10th, 2020 @ 3:22 pm
By: LifeZette
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And all across our land, Melania and I would like to wish you a very, very Merry Christmas. And now, the First Lady will do the honors of lighting the National Christmas Tree.
Published: Monday, December 9th, 2019 @ 5:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Remarks by President Trump Welcoming the 2019 World Series Champions: The Washington Nationals
Published: Wednesday, November 6th, 2019 @ 6:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In an era when the States have been reduced to virtual provinces or wards of the federal government and the Tenth Amendment is repeatedly and audaciously ignored, it is refreshing to look back and appreciate how strongly President Calvin Coolidge resisted spending federal dollars on local issues.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 4:09 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Garland Tucker, a North Carolina businessman, author, and entrepreneur, today formally announced he is running for U.S. Senate against Thom Tillis in an interview on the Sean Hannity radio show.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 12:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The July 4 holiday has always provided Americans a welcomed pause for rest, reflection, celebration, and renewal. Never more so than in 2018
Published: Tuesday, July 17th, 2018 @ 5:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While reminding us that the leader of the free world maintains some semblance of life outside the arena, these presidential pets rarely served overtly political purposes
Published: Tuesday, April 24th, 2018 @ 9:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The ink is dry, but the howling from the Left continues. The 2017 tax reform law is in place and working as advertised - lower personal and corporate taxes, more money in the pockets of Americans, repatriation of billions of dollars of corporate profit, and an economy that will be robust
Published: Saturday, March 24th, 2018 @ 9:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political ideologies obviously wrap up education around specific policy reforms or even powerful quests to double down on the status quo
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2018 @ 8:15 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Celebrated novelist Ernest Hemmingway was once reported to have made a bet with companions that he could write a novel in six words
Published: Friday, April 21st, 2017 @ 1:05 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The career of Calvin Coolidge, one of the greatest leaders in American history, has a lot to teach current and prospective leaders right here in North Carolina.
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2016 @ 9:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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American Democrats' first really cool president, Barack Hussein Obama, has now achieved near normalized relations with Communist, dictatorial Cuba.
Published: Friday, April 1st, 2016 @ 9:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Conservatives seeking inspiration, guidance, and perhaps a few words of caution can find all that in "Conservative Heroes," the latest book from Raleigh businessman and author Garland S. Tucker III.
Published: Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 @ 4:14 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2015 @ 5:56 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Ask a modern-day American conservative to list his political heroes, and you're likely to hear names such as Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. Those who've studied 20th-century government might throw Calvin Coolidge and Barry Goldwater into the mix.
Published: Friday, June 19th, 2015 @ 7:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Author Amity Shlaes had heartening words for conservatives when she spoke at a Civitas event this fall.
Published: Friday, December 5th, 2014 @ 7:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Our County Commissioners have decided to move forward with spending millions of taxpayers’ dollars without a referendum on the issue. The reason they give is that ‘the voters won’t vote to approve a jail”.
Published: Tuesday, January 7th, 2014 @ 2:21 am
By: Keith D Kidwell
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As Americans continue to struggle with a sluggish economy, policymakers could learn useful lessons from a president who served in office more than 80 years ago. That's the view of Amity Shlaes, director of the Four Percent Growth Project at the George W. Bush Center, nationally syndicated...
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2013 @ 1:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Sunday, November 10th, 2013 @ 10:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Self-governing individuals are necessary to have a self-governing society. That is, only a moral and disciplined people are capable of being governed by a limited government.
Published: Sunday, April 14th, 2013 @ 10:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Like many readers I recently encountered the sad tale of how James W. Wagner, President of Emory University, had to apologize for praising the Constitution's three-fifths compromise (treating slaves as three-fifths of a person for purposes of congressional representation).
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2013 @ 10:40 pm
By: Robert Weissberg
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The folks at Civitas did a great job of pointing out how many 112 year old North Carolina voters have cast ballots so far during early voting.
Published: Thursday, October 25th, 2012 @ 7:55 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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