N.C. Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr. says the state's highest court continues to wrestle with property rights protection tied to the "fruits of their own labor" clause in the state constitution.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 4:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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I’m a long-time activist. I started a Tea Party group in 2009 in my area of North Carolina and have been running it ever since.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The Left’s latest pro-union resurgence discredits workers
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 @ 11:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan sends powerful but dangerous messages
Published: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022 @ 9:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The concept of limited government is simple. A limited, just government, as summed up in the Declaration of Independence, protects the rights to “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 10:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This article is dedicated to our great Founding Fathers - men who had the courage, the foresight, and the wisdom to secure the freedom that I exercise and enjoy every single day. - Diane Rufino
Published: Saturday, April 24th, 2021 @ 9:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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This article is dedicated to our great Founding Fathers - men who had the courage, the foresight, and the wisdom to secure the freedom that I exercise and enjoy every single day. - Diane Rufino
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 4:17 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The political temptation to protect “domestic” industries from “foreign” competition is strong, persistent, and understandable.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2019 @ 9:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Cicero was a famous lawyer, philosopher, and most importantly and significantly, a Roman senator during Pompey Magnus' and then Julius Caesar's rule.
Published: Thursday, September 13th, 2018 @ 5:43 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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It has been suggested that the expansion of free market think tanks on our college campuses is educationally harmful.
Published: Tuesday, December 20th, 2016 @ 7:12 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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"Academia is American liberals' sanctuary, their fortress, their source. By controlling the campuses, the Left is able to control much of the nation's intellectual debate," said my colleague Jay Schalin at last year's State Policy Network convention.
Published: Wednesday, December 17th, 2014 @ 6:05 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Left-liberals may dominate universities in the United States, but another kind of liberal—the classical liberal—is finding its way into the fray.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 6:53 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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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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Remember when the Republican-crafted North Carolina budget passed over Gov. Beverly Perdue's veto last summer? Liberal activists predicted economic disaster.
Published: Monday, February 20th, 2012 @ 1:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This article follows the one I previously wrote, entitled "Who is Really Disenfranchised?" In that article I talked about the incessant claims of "disenfranchisement" of minority voters when no such disenfranchisement exists nor any intent to do so.
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2012 @ 8:49 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Recently, I received, from George Schryer, this aggregation of pearls of wisdom that are as true today as they were when first uttered. Accordingly, I thought it wise to publish these as soon as I found the time to do so.
Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 @ 12:42 pm
By: George H. Schryer
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It is acknowledged that the views and the writings philosopher John Locke played a crucial role in our Founders' view of liberty.
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2011 @ 12:01 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The Constitution was also written to memorialize the notion that sovereign power rests with the individual and not with the federal government or any governmental agency.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2011 @ 2:32 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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