What does Independence Day - the 4th of July - mean to you?
Published: Wednesday, July 5th, 2023 @ 12:13 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Perhaps what Independence Day is all about is to reflect on our history and to rekindle our revolutionary spirit every year... our great love of liberty.
Published: Tuesday, July 4th, 2023 @ 6:19 am
By: Diane Rufino
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A 15th-century shipwreck discovered in the 1970s continues to reveal what was traveling with King John of Denmark and how the ruling class lived.
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2023 @ 10:59 am
By: Daily Wire
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A male Texas A&M University-Kingsville student was expelled after a female student claimed he sexually assaulted her because she was too drunk to consent. The student sued, and a judge just granted a temporary restraining order, setting aside the school’s determination and allowing the lawsuit.
Published: Saturday, May 28th, 2022 @ 10:26 am
By: Daily Wire
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To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught how to use them.
Published: Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 @ 10:02 pm
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: 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: Sunday, February 21st, 2021 @ 7:59 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The case District of Columbia v. Heller is the landmark Supreme Court case decided in 2008, and written by the late great conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, which finally looked at the roots and origins of the Second Amendment.
Published: Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 @ 11:49 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Happy Anniversary America !! This year, 2011, celebrates 218 years since the British signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783, formally abandoning any claims to the United States.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2019 @ 9:50 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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December 15 marks a very special day in our founding history - On that date in 1791, the first 14 states (Vermont had just been admitted to the Union as the 14th state), ratified the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, known collectively as our Bill of Rights.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 3:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper recognized and thanked North Carolinians who preserve African American heritage and culture
Published: Sunday, February 18th, 2018 @ 10:36 pm
By: Governor's Office
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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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Each unconstitutional act usurps the powers delegated or reserved to the People and the States. Nature's Law supersedes man's law. Every failure to resist the tyranny posed by an unconstitutional act tightens the noose around freedom's neck.
Published: Friday, January 26th, 2018 @ 10:49 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The John Locke Foundation recently commemorated the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta (Latin for “Great Charter”).
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 10:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I recently returned from the United Kingdom, where there's much talk of historical commemorations.
Published: Monday, July 13th, 2015 @ 8:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the past few months, under the chairmanship of John Fennebresque, the UNC Board of Governors has been more aggressive than in the past, drilling down into more topics and increasing its discussions in committees and in the full board meetings.
Published: Sunday, November 23rd, 2014 @ 11:41 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Joseph Eggleston Johnston was born near Farmville, Virginia on February 3, 1807.
Published: Sunday, December 8th, 2013 @ 1:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nullification is the theory that says that actions of the federal government that are passed, imposed, or exercised in excess or abuse of the express authority granted in the Constitution are not enforceable.
Published: Sunday, July 28th, 2013 @ 8:52 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Last year, I taught classes on the Constitution, Our Founding Fathers, Our Founding Principles, The Federal Court System, The Supreme Court, and Judicial Activism.
Published: Saturday, November 17th, 2012 @ 6:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Brant Clifton wrote two short pieces on Friday, and I am writing one today. Does anyone really care?
Published: Sunday, November 11th, 2012 @ 10:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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"One day, I walked into an operating room, to just be an observant, which we would do generally, as a medical resident. It was the 1960's and abortion was still legal.
Published: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 @ 10:18 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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I was struck by how many people want to learn such topics but just don't know where to go to be educated or how to trust that they will be taught the right stuff. But one question that came up almost every class period and by every group was this: "Do the states have the right to secede?"
Published: Saturday, September 10th, 2011 @ 12:13 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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As might be expected, the text of the Magna Carta of 1215 bears many traces of haste, and is clearly the product of much bargaining and many hands.
Published: Saturday, July 2nd, 2011 @ 12:49 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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