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As a multi term county commissioner and a media journalist-by-default seer, I have been at the tip of the spear for decades regarding the direction of our community, our state, our nation, and our current demise did not begin with the Biden "election."
Published: Wednesday, November 15th, 2023 @ 10:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A federal judge delivered on Wednesday a default judgment against former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, saying that the former New York City mayor is liable for defaming two Georgia election workers.
Published: Sunday, September 24th, 2023 @ 5:57 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) called on President Joe Biden to continue debt ceiling negotiations with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as the federal government quickly approaches a default on obligations.
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2023 @ 5:24 am
By: Daily Wire
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President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on Saturday to avoid a default on the federal government’s debt by raising the debt ceiling.
Published: Friday, June 16th, 2023 @ 12:34 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Senate passed bipartisan legislation Thursday night that aims to avert a U.S. debt default.
Published: Thursday, June 15th, 2023 @ 12:44 am
By: Daily Wire
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Top Conservatives Slam McCarthy-Biden Agreement: ‘With Republicans Like These, Who Needs Democrats?’Many top conservatives slammed the bipartisan agreement reached between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over the weekend that is expected to prevent the U.S. from defaulting on its debt.
Published: Sunday, June 11th, 2023 @ 8:27 pm
By: Daily Wire
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House and Senate lawmakers have reportedly come to a deal to avoid defaulting on the national debt by raising the debt ceiling to infinity million billion +1.
Published: Friday, June 9th, 2023 @ 9:15 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Most Americans favor cutting spending alongside raising the debt ceiling as President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) negotiate a deal to avert a U.S. default, according to a recent survey.
Published: Friday, June 9th, 2023 @ 4:43 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The White House on Tuesday said invoking the 14th Amendment to prevent the U.S. from defaulting on $31 trillion debt won’t solve the national crisis after nearly a dozen left-wing Senators suggested President Joe Biden use such authority.
Published: Friday, June 9th, 2023 @ 12:46 am
By: Daily Wire
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told lawmakers on Tuesday that Republican leaders are “nowhere near” a deal with the White House on the debt ceiling, a revelation that comes less than two weeks before the nation is expected to default on obligations.
Published: Wednesday, June 7th, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
By: Daily Wire
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President Joe Biden said he would discuss the debt limit with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) via telephone from Air Force One as he returns home from Japan after the top Republican accused him of being beholden to “radical socialists” as a potential default looms.
Published: Tuesday, June 6th, 2023 @ 5:45 am
By: Daily Wire
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) touted victories that conservatives secured over the weekend as lawmakers reached a last-minute agreement to avoid the U.S. defaulting on its debt.
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 7:26 am
By: Daily Wire
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Veteran bank executives are meeting with senior lawmakers and federal officials as the government comes within two weeks of a potential debt default.
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 7:00 am
By: Daily Wire
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President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) each said on Tuesday that they made progress on debt ceiling negotiations, indicating thaws in an impasse as the nation faces a possible debt default in two weeks.
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 1:28 am
By: Daily Wire
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A leading Treasury Department official refuses to admit President Joe Biden waited until the threat of a historic default became imminent to negotiate the debt ceiling.
Published: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 7:01 pm
By: Daily Wire
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As a showdown looms over increasing the debt ceiling once again, President Biden warned that partisan bickering over the issue could lead the U.S. to default on its obligations to Ukraine.
Published: Thursday, May 18th, 2023 @ 9:56 am
By: Babylon Bee
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The United States risks defaulting on its debt as early as June 1, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced on Monday.
Published: Thursday, May 4th, 2023 @ 9:20 am
By: Daily Wire
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced on Monday that lawmakers would soon vote to raise the debt ceiling for one year and seek to slow spending increases for federal agencies.
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 @ 8:25 am
By: Daily Wire
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U.S. Treasury institutes "extraordinary measures" to cushion the country from default and keep paying the bills
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 10:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Calls for the creation of a trillion-dollar platinum coin to help the United States avoid defaulting on the national debt have resurfaced as the latest debt ceiling battle starts on Capitol Hill.
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 9:10 am
By: Daily Wire
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Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) quipped about the pending debt crisis, expressing confidence that Congress will work to resolve the issue and hoping that President Joe Biden will negotiate with House Republicans to establish meaningful spending cuts.
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 8:07 am
By: Daily Wire
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Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic has been declared the champion of the 2022 US Open, as all the other contestants have died suddenly of mysterious heart attacks.
Published: Friday, September 16th, 2022 @ 7:51 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Tom Hanks, who stated, “I’m not cynical. Cynicism is a default position in an awful lot of entertainment,” had some rather cynical words regarding the Da Vinci Codes films he made.
Published: Friday, June 17th, 2022 @ 7:17 am
By: Daily Wire
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Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said schools should be open during the Omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a different message than many schools across the country are following amid rising case numbers.
Published: Thursday, January 6th, 2022 @ 11:33 am
By: Daily Wire
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McConnell Offers Short-Term Solution To Prevent ‘Another Self-Created Democrat Crisis’ On Debt LimitSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offered Democrats on Wednesday a short-term solution to avoid having the U.S. default on its debt, which would tank the economy.
Published: Monday, November 29th, 2021 @ 11:48 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina will make sure Tyrrell County won’t default on its debt, but the intervention buys just one year.
Published: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020 @ 11:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Yesterday, U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Michael Bennet (D-CO), James Lankford (R-OK), Chris Coons (D-DE), and Susan Collins (R-ME) sent a letter to President Trump, signed by a bipartisan group of more than two dozen senators, stating that the default position of the United States should be to
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 2:30 am
By: Thom Tillis
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If you can't beat 'em, sue 'em. It has been the default setting of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and his liberal allies even before the governor took office 14 months ago
Published: Thursday, January 25th, 2018 @ 3:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Earlier this year, the commission delivered a report to the General Assembly urging, among other reforms, legislation raising the default age teenagers charged with nonviolent offenses would be tried in adult courts from 16 to 18 years old
Published: Tuesday, June 13th, 2017 @ 7:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has a serious problem. Adopting a default mens rea provision would go a long way to solving it.
Published: Friday, May 13th, 2016 @ 7:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Congressional Republicans say they are short of the votes for raising the debt limit and avoiding a first-ever government default. With barely a week before deadline, there's no plan on what to do.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 3:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Student loan debt in North Carolina is not a good news-bad news story. It is a bad news-worse news story. Student debt, with a couple of exceptions, has been rising across the board at University of North Carolina schools, both in the percentage of students who need loans and the amount of their...
Published: Friday, September 11th, 2015 @ 2:05 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Beaufort County Community College will cease participation in the Federal Direct Student Loan Program effective July 1, 2015. As a result, BCCC will not originate any new student loans after that date. This action is being taken because of the trend in BCCC's three-year default rate. BCCC will...
Published: Saturday, March 21st, 2015 @ 9:42 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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Not all students can obtain federal loans for college because some community colleges do not participate in the federal lending program.
Published: Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 @ 6:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Student loan defaults continue to cause problems in this country. As recently as 2010, nearly 375,000 students defaulted within two years of beginning repayment. One idea put forward to address the issue involves assigning more responsibility for defaults to colleges and universities themselves...
Published: Sunday, December 8th, 2013 @ 2:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Students are defaulting on their college loans at worryingly high rates. Many observers of higher education believe that one reason for the defaults is that those most...
Published: Thursday, August 8th, 2013 @ 3:14 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The student loan crisis has been all over the headlines lately - $1 trillion in loans with a default rate that's high and getting higher. But direct grants, or scholarships, by the federal and state governments have just as big an effect on the world of higher education and on the nation.
Published: Sunday, June 16th, 2013 @ 12:45 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Beaufort County Commissioners would seem to have done it again. They sit idly by while one of their own seems to be trying to take charge of things (presumably to remake them in his own image - surely thereby enhancing his own stature).
Published: Sunday, June 17th, 2012 @ 7:59 am
By: Jim Bispo
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