MONTICELLO: Missing the Opportunity to Educate Americans on the Extensive Legacy of Thomas JeffersonI was contacted this morning by Monticello, asking for a donation. While those who know me, and perhaps even those who have read my articles, know that Thomas Jefferson is my favorite Founding Father.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 9:47 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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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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While the NC House has been aggressive in its protection for the interests of big hospitals and physicians and other healthcare workers, it has done just the opposite for North Carolina's commercial fisherman.
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2019 @ 12:45 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The NC House: Hospitals are Too Important to Fail, but Taxpayers are Unimportant to Save Them Money
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @ 9:39 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The "new beginnings" Beaufort County conservative club meeting held last night at King chicken was an outstanding success.
Published: Tuesday, March 19th, 2019 @ 1:19 pm
By: Buzz Cayton
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A straw poll was held at the 3rd Congressional District Meeting on Saturday, March 2 to see which candidate for the US House (to fill the seat vacated by Congressman Walter Jones' untimely passing) and Michael Speciale was the winner.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 10:00 am
By: Diane Rufino
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This past Monday, February 25, US Senate Democrats blocked a Republican bill - The BORN-ALIVE ABORTION SURVIVORS PROTECTION ACT - that would have threatened prison time for doctors who don't attempt to save the lives of infants born alive during failed abortions.
Published: Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 @ 7:14 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down one of the most controversial opinions in its history. It issued its opinion regarding the constitutionality of state laws banning and even criminalizing abortion.
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 @ 3:36 am
By: Diane Rufino
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President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence addressed this year's March for Life, the 45th annual March for Life in DC, by video from the White House Rose Garden.
Published: Wednesday, January 30th, 2019 @ 5:02 am
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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The United States is a constitutional republic. It is not a democracy, as most people believe.
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2018 @ 8:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The federal courts have become political, rather apolitical, which is what they were intended to be.
Published: Wednesday, September 26th, 2018 @ 5:07 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Lately, a lot of emotion has been spent over Confederate monuments in the Tar Heel state.
Published: Tuesday, September 25th, 2018 @ 8:36 am
By: Diane Rufino
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On the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill stood the noble statue of "Silent Sam," the Confederate soldier who stood vigilant watch over the campus. It stood on McCorkle place, the University's upper quad, facing Franklin Street.
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2018 @ 11:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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On July 19, demonstrators protested outside Maxine Waters' Los Angeles office, burning an American flag and shouting "Black Power" and "America was never great!"........
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 @ 6:36 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Where was the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when Obama promised he "would have more flexibility after his re-election"? Oh, the double standard.
Published: Monday, August 13th, 2018 @ 7:35 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Maxine Waters needs to be impeached and removed from Congress. Her actions are detestable and unconscionable, and her conduct is unethical and un-American and unbecoming a member of the US Congress.
Published: Wednesday, August 8th, 2018 @ 4:28 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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I created this meme to show my inherent trust in the leadership of President Trump.
Published: Friday, August 3rd, 2018 @ 10:33 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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On May 25, Brandon Straka posted a video on Facebook explaining why he was finally rejecting and walking away from the Democratic Party. It has since gone viral and inspired a growing political movement.
Published: Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 @ 9:44 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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With all the extreme haters in Hollywierd and in the Entertainment Industry, with all their vitriolic talk and tweets, I think it's about time we call them out for what they are.
Published: Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 @ 12:00 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Diane Rufino's latest meme.
Published: Saturday, July 28th, 2018 @ 1:06 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Today, the Supreme Court rejected and reversed the decision of the uber-liberal 9th Circuit and affirmed the constitutionality of President Trump's Travel Ban. It can now go into effect.
Published: Monday, July 23rd, 2018 @ 2:45 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The Eastern NC Tea Party has some upcoming events, so please mark your calendars!
Published: Friday, July 20th, 2018 @ 9:56 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Mainstream media journalists and Democrats all of a sudden decide that they care about what migrants experience at the border after years of not giving a shit. The same policies have been in place. The same pictures were available of children in "cages." Why the outrage now?
Published: Monday, July 9th, 2018 @ 8:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Whoopi Goldberg, on The View, flew into a tirade over the news that Justice Kennedy was retiring and that President Trump would be able to appoint a new Supreme Court justice.
Published: Sunday, July 8th, 2018 @ 5:23 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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We've all heard of the case of the Christian cake artist who declined to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because of his deeply-held belief in the Biblical view of marriage.
Published: Friday, May 18th, 2018 @ 4:19 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Mental midgets need to stop demoniziing Thomas Jefferson and demeaning his legacy because of the fact that he owned slaves.
Published: Friday, March 9th, 2018 @ 6:25 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The two-party political system is destroying our country.
Published: Sunday, February 18th, 2018 @ 5:43 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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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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Today, President Trump declassified the Nunes' Memo, exposing to the American people the corruption in the Obama Justice Department, especially relating to the 2016 election
Published: Sunday, February 11th, 2018 @ 2:29 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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This article, excerpted from Mike Scrugg's book THE UN-CIVIL WAR, discusses the first 13th Amendment, which was QUITE DIFFERENT from the one which was ratified in 1865.
Published: Wednesday, February 7th, 2018 @ 1:09 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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Last night (Jan. 29), the Houes Intelligence Committee voted to release the Nunes Memo, outlining a series of Obama-era abuses of the executive branch's surveillance authorities, including FISA.
Published: Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 @ 6:32 am
By: Diane Rufino
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I know that most people have never heard of the term
Published: Thursday, February 1st, 2018 @ 7:02 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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