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A well-known political network that focuses on limited government says it’s time to look ahead to the future for Republican presidential candidates for 2024, and they say that future doesn’t include former President Donald Trump.
Published: Sunday, February 19th, 2023 @ 9:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Biden administration used a COVID-justified waiver to quietly transform a small student loan forgiveness program into an enormous scheme which can write off unlimited amounts of student loans for government workers and employees of nonprofits including activist think-tanks.
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 @ 3:03 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Biden administration used a COVID-justified waiver to quietly transform a small student loan forgiveness program into an enormous scheme which can write off unlimited amounts of student loans for government workers and employees of nonprofits including activist think-tanks.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 12:13 am
By: Daily Wire
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Beaufort County Commissioners hear the financial state of the county treasury, and its condition is good, yet ... maybe too good.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 10:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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Robinson views governing through a limited government lens, with a heavy dose of individual rights and liberty. Those views are informed by his strong Christian faith.
Published: Monday, October 25th, 2021 @ 1:09 pm
By: Holly Audette
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Private bars will open at limited capacity under a new executive decree from the governor, although at the same time he called for more direct government aid to prop up failing businesses.
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2021 @ 2:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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I'm a huge fan of free markets, limited government, and the promotion of individual liberty.
Published: Friday, October 12th, 2018 @ 2:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What's the theme for limited government, personal responsibility, opportunity and freedom across North Carolina for the 2018 election cycle
Published: Monday, March 26th, 2018 @ 1:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Modern American conservatism weaves several strands of thought - constitutionally limited government, free-market economics, time-honored virtues, and prudent statesmanship - into a fabric that is both large enough to encompass a majority coalition and strong enough to withstand
Published: Tuesday, February 28th, 2017 @ 9:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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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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We've heard some tough talk. Everyone is beating their chest getting ready for the upcoming elections.
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 3:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A major problem is facing state employee pension plans. While many private corporations cut back pension programs due to limited funding or decreasing contributions, pension systems for government employees rarely change.
Published: Monday, August 24th, 2015 @ 12:55 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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Each year, you have all kinds of groups ranking members of Congress according to their voting records. The Club For Growth, for instance, champions the concepts of limited government and fiscal conservatism.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 12:16 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Many people choose not to vote. Laws that benefit only limited special interests are incredibly hard to kill. Government tends to grow, even when voters elect officials who promise fiscal restraint.
Published: Monday, November 10th, 2014 @ 1:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Friday, an unelected federal judge violated the foundational principles of this great nation. In 1787, at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and later by ratification, the states relinquished a limited amount of power to a federal government.
Published: Sunday, October 12th, 2014 @ 12:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Critics often label capitalism as unfair. They say a system based on free markets and limited government control leads to wide disparities among the rich and poor.
Published: Friday, August 29th, 2014 @ 10:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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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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The turmoil within the Craven County Republican Party is a symbolic, localized representation of the nationwide struggle between limited-government forces and statist establishment types for the soul of the GOP.
Published: Saturday, September 28th, 2013 @ 8:17 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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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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The reasons we have consented to limited government are to preserve the freedom to pursue happiness, the freedom to be different and the freedom to be left alone.
Published: Thursday, August 1st, 2013 @ 12:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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one of the Tea Party's vanguards - has released its latest scorecards evaluating lawmakers on how they vote in terms of the limited government agenda. Lawmakers were assigned percentage-based scores ranging from 1(liberal) to 100 (perfect conservative).
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 @ 5:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Dr. Ben Carson, a rising star in conservative circles, told a crowd gathered in North Carolina's capital city Thursday that government in the United States is...
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013 @ 4:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mattie Lawson, a grassroots advocate for limited government, will not seek the North Carolina GOP Chair to be voted on at the NC GOP Convention.
Published: Saturday, May 11th, 2013 @ 11:28 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Self-governing individuals are necessary to have a self-governing society. That is, only a moral and disciplined people are capable of being governed by a limited government.
Published: Sunday, April 14th, 2013 @ 10:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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In 2010, we were told a conservative revolution was sweeping North Carolina AND the country. In 2012, we were told conservatism was on the rise -- with the election of a new GOP lt.
Published: Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 @ 8:48 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Beaufort County Limited Voting Method Committee
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 @ 8:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Pat McCrory is expected to sign soon legislation that says no to implementing the federal health care law's most costly provisions -- a state-run insurance exchange and Medicaid expansion--and rightly so.
Published: Thursday, February 21st, 2013 @ 2:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Conservatives and libertarians spend a lot of time talking about freedom: free markets, limited government, personal responsibility.
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2013 @ 9:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1972, 1980, 1984, and 1988 the GOP ran a national ticket touting the promise of limited government and tax cuts. The Republicans saw smashing, overwhelming victories in each of those years.
Published: Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 @ 1:01 am
By: Brant Clifton
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In October, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation held its annual Liberty Forum in New York City. The foundation's mission is to strengthen freedom around the globe by sponsoring organizations that promote limited government.
Published: Friday, December 14th, 2012 @ 10:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican John Szoka is promoting a limited government message in slightly Democratic House District 45 and suffered a curious intraparty betrayal after the spring primary, but political observers believe his contest with Democrat Eddie Dees is tight.
Published: Monday, October 29th, 2012 @ 11:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Constitution was established to provide limited centralized government. It was established as an "agent" or servant of the States. It was to serve the common interests of the States so that they can act like a "Union" of states and not 13 independent states.
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2012 @ 12:53 am
By: Diane Rufino
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You wouldn't call someone "anti-spoon" if he preferred to use a knife to cut his steak.
Published: Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 @ 11:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It would be nice to have someone with a (R) next to their name residing in that big pretty house on Blount Street. But what if that person with the (R) next to their name is not really all that big of a fan of limited government?
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2012 @ 4:45 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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OBX Tea Party believes that the following candidates on the ballot for the July 17 Runoff best represent the Tea Party values of limited government, fiscal responsibility and free markets:
Published: Saturday, July 7th, 2012 @ 11:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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