I have a growing collection of images, the vast majority of which are in North Carolina, that I am now offering for sale in a limited edition format, which, as most of you know, means that I will sell a certain number of prints, and then the reproductions for that image end for perpetuity.
Published: Saturday, December 2nd, 2017 @ 4:10 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Eliminating the debt limit has long been a cause of liberal commentators, media elites and Washington insiders
Published: Friday, October 13th, 2017 @ 10:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The House convened briefly Thursday morning to hear veto messages from Gov. Roy Cooper, stood at ease for about a half-hour then unanimously passed by a 76-0 vote a joint Senate resolution to adjourn
Published: Saturday, August 5th, 2017 @ 2:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis in asking Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to cancel the Senate's scheduled August state work period if meaningful progress has not been made on fixing health care, funding the government, dealing with the debt ceiling, passing a budget resolution, and improving our tax code
Published: Friday, June 30th, 2017 @ 5:24 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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What's the real problem with our federal government? That people in Congress serve too many terms? And if we get an Amendment to limit their terms, will our Land be healed
Published: Wednesday, May 17th, 2017 @ 5:27 pm
By: Publius Huldah
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State Rep. Dennis Riddell, R-Alamance, is under no illusion a constitutional amendment to impose legislative term limits will be an easy sell, even though the earliest anyone would be barred from running for re-election is 2035
Published: Sunday, March 26th, 2017 @ 12:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov.-elect Roy Cooper held a news conference Thursday morning in response to a slew of bills from lawmakers filed in a special session of the General Assembly
Published: Saturday, December 17th, 2016 @ 8:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the realm of the Limited Voting election scheme, which is rammed down the collective throats of all Beaufort County Citizens and taxpayers, no county commissioner candidate has ever gotten as many votes as did The Hood in this 2016 general election.
Published: Sunday, November 13th, 2016 @ 3:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Regardless of the election results, on Wednesday all of us at the John Locke Foundation will come to work with the same goal we've had since the doors opened in 1990: Restraining government to its core, constitutional functions and enacting policies that expand freedom and opportunity
Published: Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 @ 11:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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An effort to cap the state income tax rate was removed quietly from the Senate's calendar on Wednesday, one day after that body's Finance Committee gave the proposed change to the N.C. Constitution a thumbs up
Published: Monday, June 20th, 2016 @ 9:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state of Nevada’s largest union representing law enforcement officers at the local and state levels blasted State Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, an avowed conservative Republican for her calling citizens to use deadly physical force against police officers
Published: Saturday, June 11th, 2016 @ 8:59 am
By: Jim Kouri
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It's cheap to borrow right now. That doesn't mean you ought to load up with new debt, however, and this same wisdom applies to the public sector
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2016 @ 7:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During a recent book tour across North Carolina, I had occasion to visit with thousands of politically active people, most of them conservatives
Published: Saturday, April 30th, 2016 @ 10:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Congressional Republicans say they are short of the votes for raising the debt limit and avoiding a first-ever government default. With barely a week before deadline, there's no plan on what to do.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 3:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Each year the North Carolina General Assembly discusses how much is spent on state government. Many, including the John Locke Foundation, argue that a spending limit or cap should be in place. The call for such a cap has not been impromptu, but rather a reaction to inflation-adjusted state...
Published: Friday, August 14th, 2015 @ 2:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The movement behind a Balanced Budget Amendment will officially transform our government of specific taxing powers to one of broad powers
Published: Tuesday, August 4th, 2015 @ 4:26 am
By: Diane Rufino
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As government agencies continue to push for growth, with the help of their special-interest allies and mainstream media outlets, advocates for free markets and limited government have to work hard to get their messages heard in the public policy debate.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The states could put a stake through the heart of America's "fundamental problem" of unlimited borrowing capacity that has created nearly $18 trillion in national debt by adopting a balanced budget amendment
Published: Monday, December 29th, 2014 @ 11:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hold on to your hats!! I am about to agree with something our glorious leader said. In talking about the National Debt and the Debt Limit, he laid the blame on the congress, those who control the purse strings. He was right (partly).
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2014 @ 12:52 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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When the original 13 states came together to discuss the possibility of establishing a confederacy, at the urging of Benjamin Franklin ("Join or Die"), they did so with a great deal of hope, but also a great deal of trepidation.
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2014 @ 6:16 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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I am the first of the baby boom generation. Our moms and dads, aunts and uncles went to make the world free of tyranny. From all over they put their blood on the ground in battle.
Published: Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 @ 1:22 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Tea Partiers and other grassroots limited government types have been disappointed time and again by the Republican leaders on Capitol Hill they elected and elevated in 2010 and 2012.
Published: Monday, January 13th, 2014 @ 9:50 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Beaufort County Commissioner Gary Brinn offered the false narrative that I, somehow miraculously, had swung 180° to a position that only he could know in his "heart of hearts": 'I had decided that I was in favor of Limited Voting; it was the only way I could get elected.'
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 3:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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From taxes and spending to regulation, education, and transportation, the 2013 session of the North Carolina General Assembly proved historic in producing positive reforms for state government. That's the assessment from top John Locke Foundation staffers reviewing this year's legislative scorecard.
Published: Monday, August 12th, 2013 @ 8:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While I am hardly a political animal - don't really have the time for it - I have, over the years, been rather astute in recognizing the obvious, especially the dubious moves of politicians. I see this odd behavior often from Democrats, and sadly, I now see it from some Republicans as well.
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2013 @ 9:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I think we would do better to take our time and look at all the options in greater detail before rushing head long into an option doomed to failure.
Published: Sunday, June 30th, 2013 @ 12:27 pm
By: John Murphy
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