Imagine if Samuel Adams had said: "What's the point to standing up to the British? I mean, King George is the king. He's in control.
Published: Saturday, August 10th, 2013 @ 12:37 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It sounds odd to hear me praising McClatchy, but they've done some bang-up work pointing out the waste in the NC Rural Center and making a case for its closure.
Published: Friday, July 19th, 2013 @ 3:52 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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"The tax reform plan will cut personal taxes and simplify taxes for every North Carolinian who works," said Civitas President Francis X.
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 @ 1:49 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It's amazing. Bill Barber, Chris Fitzsimon, and their echo chambers at McClatchy and WRAL have been trying to sell us that a hard-right revolution is sweeping through Raleigh - making school kids dumber, taking food out of senior citizens' mouths.
Published: Monday, July 1st, 2013 @ 12:03 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute - an excellent organization based in DC that fights the good fight for the free market - is suing on behalf of some small businesses and individuals to challenge the federal government's authority to collect taxes from the states to finance ObamaCare.
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 @ 7:42 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Avery was the last county to be formed by the North Carolina General Assembly, making it the hundredth-county in the state.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2013 @ 11:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What's that smell, you ask? Why it's the patchouli-and-granola Chapel Hill-Carrboro crowd stinking up Jones Street and tying up police officers' valuable time -- comparing themselves to MLK and protesting "draconian cuts" to public education.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2013 @ 11:29 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Maybe more so than any other novelist below the Mason-Dixon line, including the 19th-century William Gilmore Simms of South Carolina, Inglis Fletcher of North Carolina painted the most comprehensive, historical portrait of the land on which she lived.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 1:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Republican majority in the North Carolina Senate has put its money where its mouth is and introduced legislation allowing the state of North Carolina to "opt out" of the implementation of ObamaCare.
Published: Sunday, February 3rd, 2013 @ 10:53 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Supposedly, our state is in the midst of a "conservative revolution." But the message we're getting out of our new administration in Raleigh is sounding a lot like something crafted by the NC Democrat Party's communications staff.
Published: Saturday, January 26th, 2013 @ 2:18 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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While in North Carolina the Republican Party seems poised for a highly successful election cycle this year, the federal races for president and Congress present no clear partisan trend.
Published: Saturday, November 3rd, 2012 @ 7:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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From 1929 to 1977, the State of North Carolina forcibly sterilized about 7,600 of her own people for possessing "undesirable" genetic traits in the name of eugenics.
Published: Tuesday, October 30th, 2012 @ 12:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tea Party favorite and political newcomer Dan Forest is calling for an "education revolution."
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2012 @ 2:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I've been researching the topic for several months, as part of a book project, and have come across a number of fascinating historical figures who deserve to be better known to North Carolinians.
Published: Thursday, October 4th, 2012 @ 6:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Throughout the latest discourse on energy policy and government-related endeavors in natural resources, I have come to a conclusion on the matter: We aren't running out of resources as fast as some would have you believe.
Published: Tuesday, August 7th, 2012 @ 9:25 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Hezekiah Alexander's role in the Revolution is a good example. His home, built in 1774, ought to be a colorful Carolina shrine to the birth of political liberty in America, rather than a setting for the tedious or trivial, as many believe the museum has become.
Published: Monday, July 23rd, 2012 @ 7:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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History is full of cases in which people subverted their own just causes by acting impulsively rather than carefully considering the costs and benefits.
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2012 @ 12:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Not every generation gets a chance to participate in anything politically revolutionary. We hear about technology, communications, transportation and other non political revolutions almost every day.
Published: Saturday, June 23rd, 2012 @ 12:22 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Our world is coming apart. The reactions to this are daily becoming more ridiculous.
Published: Sunday, October 30th, 2011 @ 9:49 am
By: Dean Stephens
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America was shocked by the anti-American hatred expressed through the Islamic Revolution led by the Ayatollah Khomeini.
Published: Friday, April 9th, 2010 @ 9:51 am
By: Mike Hayes
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