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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In 1886, Sir Edward Clarke delivered a speech in the U.K. House of Commons and in polite way of insulting someone, he said: "The mind was indeed so open that it had nothing in it at all."
Published: Thursday, December 14th, 2017 @ 10:14 am
By: Diane Rufino
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This is not the only time that a war was won when the Leader was a Mad Man. One thing for sure, he would surely get Mad if you said he was Mad.
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 12:16 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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In Honor of the 230th Anniversary of the US Constitution, and also to help promote Brion McClanahan's latest book, HOW ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCREWED UP AMERICA, I wanted to post this important History Lesson.
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2017 @ 12:06 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Ken Burns' documentaries give us great history lessons and the CSA letters personify the history.
Published: Friday, June 30th, 2017 @ 12:51 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Today’s N&O features this ridiculous editorial lambasting the NC General Assembly for being too financially responsible
Published: Saturday, April 22nd, 2017 @ 10:13 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Back in my day, we had a similar prohibition about bathroom use and everyone knew the rules. Heaven forbid that you overstepped the rules back then.
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2017 @ 12:11 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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I published this Blog Posting on January 1, 2009. It really is a history lesson. You remember history. They used to teach a lot of it in our schools.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 11:56 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Students on both sides of the Atlantic have declared war on the past.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2016 @ 4:20 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Bobby Tony is thankful for this country and the opportunity it gave to my grandparents.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 5:55 am
By: Bobby Tony
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The recent movie "Best of Enemies" revisits 1968, one of the most dramatic years in modern American history
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 3:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We know it’s a major component of the left’s campaign strategy for 2016: demagogue the Confederate flag and make Southern Republicans PROVE they are not racists. It’s a move that would make Big Barry and Saul Alinsky’s rotting corpse proud.
Published: Sunday, August 16th, 2015 @ 12:24 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It seems like just yesterday that eye doctor from Matthews and that portly fellow from Moore County were roaming the House chamber wreaking havoc, shaking down lobbyists and scaring children.
Published: Tuesday, May 5th, 2015 @ 8:33 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Reporter Lynn Bonner and the News and Observer showed us once again why people have stopped buying newspapers: Reporters keep trying to make the news, not report it.
Published: Saturday, December 6th, 2014 @ 4:12 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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For all of the words devoted to our student loan mess (or "crisis" or "bubble"), little has been written on its origins. We know that student loan debt now exceeds $1 trillion and that many young Americans are struggling with a heavy burden, but how things got that way is largely a mystery.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 11:15 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court took a step toward weakening racial preferences in university admissions. Ed Blum is trying to end them for good, potentially starting with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Published: Friday, May 16th, 2014 @ 2:07 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Rob Christensen - a/k/a "Mr Politics" or simply "McClatchy Rob" - offered his readers this weekend a history lesson that would move ANY common core-loving educrat to tears of joy
Published: Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 @ 9:50 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In this article, I hope to convince grassroots conservatives to unite in the coming year to re-assert founding values and strengthen principles of Liberty and to reject the contorted view of the Constitution that President Barack Obama is pushing on the American people.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The US republic is unique. Government can pass no law or take no action unless the authority for such law or action is specifically granted in the Constitution.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 @ 12:51 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Just add a "federal mandate" (aka TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT) to leave EVERY child behind
Published: Saturday, July 30th, 2011 @ 3:38 pm
By: Jennifer Paul Collins
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