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Today we celebrate our independence!
Published: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 1:17 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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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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If we look back on our grade school education, we remember being taught the very fundamentals of what went on at the Constitutional Convention.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:40 am
By: Diane Rufino
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"My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died; Land of the Pilgrims' pride, from ev'ry mountainside, Let freedom ring!"
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:36 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Happy Anniversary America !! This year, 2011, celebrates 218 years since the British signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783, formally abandoning any claims to the United States.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:35 am
By: Diane Rufino
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We all recognize the 4th of July as Independence Day - as the day we declared our independence from England. We celebrate the Declaration of Independence has since become our nation's most cherished symbol of liberty.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:10 am
By: Diane Rufino
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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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My recent column about North Carolina’s “First in Freedom” claim established the events leading up to the Revolutionary War. But now, as legendary broadcaster Paul Harvey frequently said, you’re going to hear “the rest of the story.”
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2024 @ 11:26 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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“First in Freedom,” our state license plates proclaim. Is this claim true?
Published: Tuesday, February 27th, 2024 @ 5:28 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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We were invited to attend the meeting of Pamlico Partners for Democracy, a group concerned about current threats to Democracy.
Published: Saturday, January 13th, 2024 @ 3:03 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In celebration of the United States of America’s Independence Day, Carolina Journal offers the text of the Declaration of Independence.
Published: Friday, September 22nd, 2023 @ 12:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Virginia college has continued to erase Revolutionary War-era figures from campus to be “more inclusive,” including a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Published: Saturday, September 16th, 2023 @ 8:06 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Two N.C. State University civil engineering students, Wyat Hamilton and Adam Fleischer, gave a Flag Day virtual presentation on Wednesday to unveil proposed new state flag designs.
Published: Monday, August 7th, 2023 @ 8:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Government is best and most responsive to the individual when it is closest to them. We're talking about the local, the county, and even the state level.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Princeton University has formed a committee to determine the fate of an on-campus statue of influential Founding Father John Witherspoon, who also served as the sixth president of the school.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 12:51 am
By: Daily Wire
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Speaking at South Carolina State University, Vice-President Kamala Harris compared herself favorably to the brilliant John Adams, the second president of the United States and the man regarded as the “Atlas of American Independence.”
Published: Saturday, October 15th, 2022 @ 1:07 am
By: Daily Wire
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Over the July 4th holiday we experienced the traditional red, white and blue salutes to our nation, along with tributes paid the patriots who signed the Declaration of Independence.
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2022 @ 12:17 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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America's version of Mao's Cultural Revolution
Published: Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021 @ 7:42 pm
By: John Steed
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Our country is, no doubt, in a horrible mess - an embarrassment to the world and on the verge of destroying the very goodness, principles, and freedom that we had been founded on.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2021 @ 11:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The armed mobs of the right and left are comically pathetic.
Published: Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 @ 8:19 am
By: LifeZette
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As Commander in Chief, I proudly join our Nation in wishing the United States Marine Corps a happy 245th birthday.
Published: Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 @ 7:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As Commander in Chief, I send my sincere gratitude to our Nation's sailors on the 245th birthday of the United States Navy.
Published: Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 @ 9:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I am truly honored to be here at the very first White House Conference on American History.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 12:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On the 244th birthday of the United States Navy, I send greetings to the sailors currently serving and those who have served our Nation with honor, courage, and commitment in times of war and peace, at home and around the world.
Published: Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 @ 10:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Remarks by President Trump at a Salute to America
Published: Monday, July 8th, 2019 @ 6:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Remarks by President Trump at the National Day of Prayer Dinner
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 3:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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December 15 marks a very special day in our founding history - On that date in 1791, the first 14 states (Vermont had just been admitted to the Union as the 14th state), ratified the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, known collectively as our Bill of Rights.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 3:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Four days ago, a date came and went without much mention. Yet it was so significant.
Published: Thursday, January 3rd, 2019 @ 6:55 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Gov. Cooper today proclaimed June 14 to be the birthday of the U.S. Army in North Carolina, 243 years after the Second Continental Congress established the Army
Published: Tuesday, June 19th, 2018 @ 12:10 pm
By: Governor's Office
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This article discusses the English roots of our American liberty.
Published: Tuesday, February 13th, 2018 @ 12:44 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the Earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them.
Published: Sunday, February 4th, 2018 @ 11:34 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Many of the comments in this series are nothing more than random thoughts on various issues that I have still to clarify in my mind. I usually use the written form to set out my thoughts and then try to debunk or reinforce my beliefs (biases) with some research.
Published: Monday, October 16th, 2017 @ 11:28 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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In recognition of the crucial role played by whistleblowers in shining a light on fraud, waste and abuse in the federal government
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2017 @ 1:45 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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