Certainly, the most disappointing part of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was that there was no mention of the federal spending crisis or our $23 trillion national debt.
Published: Friday, February 14th, 2020 @ 4:03 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Appearing on CBS Face the Nation Sunday, North Carolina Congressman Mark Meadows addressed the new federal budget deal in Washington saying the swamp “is obviously deeper.”
Published: Saturday, February 17th, 2018 @ 5:37 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Investigate Attorney General Josh Stein, says a former member of the Federal Elections Commission
Published: Tuesday, July 11th, 2017 @ 12:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Budget deadlines in our state and another provide a healthy perspective on North Carolina's finances
Published: Monday, June 26th, 2017 @ 11:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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"North Carolina has become ground zero in the redistricting battles about how much and how little race can be used in the redistricting process."
Published: Saturday, June 24th, 2017 @ 1:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mark Walker is a Baptist minister, so his explanation as to why he and other Republican congressmen survived a mass assassination attempt isn't surprising
Published: Wednesday, June 21st, 2017 @ 11:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory says Roy Cooper, his Democratic successor, is repaying his trial lawyer campaign contributors by hiring them for expensive, politically motivated lawsuits against the GOP-led General Assembly
Published: Tuesday, June 20th, 2017 @ 1:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican state auditor candidate and former FBI special agent Chuck Stuber says he was puzzled that the agency's investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's private email server
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2016 @ 4:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Students could face punishment, including the possibility of expulsion, for engaging in conscious acts stifling the First Amendment rights of others, and the UNC system would be required to implement free speech rules, under a plan Lt. Gov. Dan Forest hopes to turn into law.
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2016 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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To find out the truth about our country, conservative writers usually do research, then do interviews ... but Dinesh D'Souza is perhaps the first to do time.
Published: Monday, May 2nd, 2016 @ 5:29 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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During his March 11 campaign stop in Raleigh, Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., warned of planetary devastation from climate change unless the world shifts from fossil fuel-based energy to renewable forms of power
Published: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 @ 10:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Founding Fathers might have been unable to create the foundations of a new American nation had they operated in today's climate of federal government harassment and intrusion into citizen privacy, a constitutional lawyer says
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 @ 4:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At the Pope Center we spend a lot of time recommending changes to higher education policy. It's in our name. But there are ways you-as a citizen, parent, student, or employer-can pressure higher education to change.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 4:17 am
By: John William Pope Center
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rry Holmquist can remember the time he decided to wage his first political campaign and challenge two-term Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr in the March 15 primary.
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2016 @ 6:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The ENC Tea Party announces their upcoming events for this year.
Published: Thursday, February 11th, 2016 @ 5:29 am
By: Diane Rufino
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As an economist and a leading conservative, Arthur Brooks heads the American Enterprise Institute. He also champions an important argument many on the right shy away from: Conservatism is morally superior to any other political ideology, for it accomplishments have helped more people than any of...
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 2:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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On a mild, overcast June 5 in Raleigh, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker stepped up to the microphone in the garden of a private home. He was there to discuss what he had done in Wisconsin, and, implicitly, what he could do for the nation.
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2015 @ 10:03 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Right-leaning lawyers and legal analysts agree that the courts are a vital venue for preserving constitutional rights. But they note a surprising trend of conservative support for using judicial activism to achieve that aim rather than the traditional conservative deference to state and federal...
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 @ 7:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and possible 2016 Republican primary candidate Carly Fiorina closed out the Civitas Institute's annual Conservative Leadership Conference with a rousing talk about the need for a return to individual value in America, along with acknowledgement she is indeed pondering a pr
Published: Friday, April 10th, 2015 @ 11:14 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A proposal before the General Assembly would petition Congress to call a convention of states that would entertain constitutional amendments that, if enacted by the convention, would be sent to state legislatures for ratification.
Published: Tuesday, April 7th, 2015 @ 4:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Civitas 2015 Conservative Leadership Conference (CLC) this past weekend kicked off on Friday with thought-provoking insights from a range of speakers, including two potential presidential candidates, Dr. Ben Carson and former Sen. Rick Santorum.
Published: Saturday, April 4th, 2015 @ 9:06 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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One of the attorneys hoping to dissolve Obamacare through a lawsuit challenging the health reform act's Independent Payment Advisory Board said the deaths and mismanagement recently reported at Veterans Administration hospitals are "a great preview" of what lies in store if the health care law is...
Published: Sunday, May 25th, 2014 @ 3:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina consumers would have saved $4.2 billion since 2007 if mandates on electric power utilities to purchase expensive renewable energy had not driven costs well above the U.S. average, said a nationally recognized energy and environmental policy analyst.
Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 @ 2:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ann Coulter, conservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist and attorney, will bring her fiery and fearless commentary to the 2014 Conservative Leadership Conference!
Published: Friday, March 28th, 2014 @ 11:51 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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On March 28th and 29th we will hold our 2014 Conservative Leadership Conference at the Marriot Crabtree Hotel in Raleigh. Tickets are on sale now, but you can win two of them, plus a one-night stay at the conference hotel...on us!
Published: Sunday, March 9th, 2014 @ 12:08 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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My name is Victoria Wakefield, I am 21, Hispanic, and conservative.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 11:32 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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At the only statewide conservative conference in North Carolina, speakers, workshops, and special events will educate and empower conservatives on how we can restore our state to greatness.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 @ 9:50 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Conservatives can win - but only if they understand that winning the debate means understanding that the real clash "is a moral fight, not an economic disagreement."
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 @ 3:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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More than 600 attendees from as far away as Macon County and Wrightsville Beach traveled to Raleigh for the Conservative Leadership Conference (CLC) this past weekend.
Published: Friday, March 9th, 2012 @ 4:17 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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I learned this week that a far-left, ultra-liberal website, "Blue NC", is attacking this year's CLC. And, the owner of the website is even offering to pay protesters who want to "Occupy" the conference!
Published: Friday, February 10th, 2012 @ 5:36 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Mark your calendars now and plan to join us March 2-3, 2012 in Raleigh for the Conservative Leadership Conference (CLC).
Published: Thursday, January 19th, 2012 @ 3:33 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Mark your calendars now and plan to join us March 2-3, 2012 in Raleigh for the Conservative Leadership Conference (CLC).
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2011 @ 2:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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