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Government is best and most responsive to the individual when it is closest to them. We're talking about the local, the county, and even the state level.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: Diane Rufino
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When I talk to folks about the Constitution, I usually comment that “the Constitution holds all the answers to the problems that are plaguing us as a country,” and as a republic.
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2022 @ 12:03 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: Monday, February 22nd, 2021 @ 9:06 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the Earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them.
Published: Sunday, February 4th, 2018 @ 11:34 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Mark Levin, who wrote an excellent book "The Liberty Amendments" to urge states to call for an Article V Convention to propose constitutional amendments to restore the federal government back to some sort of constitutional limits, calls Nullifiers "kooks."
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 @ 11:58 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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One recent Tuesday was Constitution Day - September 17. It marks the day that the Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 concluded and the final draft of Constitution was signed by the delegates who attended.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 9:28 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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To know your Constitution - questions for Constitution Day (to learn about the Constitution).
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 4:59 am
By: Diane Rufino
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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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On January 9, I spoke at the "Honor the Oath" Rally in Raleigh, NC, organized by the Carolina Liberty PAC and a former NC state legislator. That was the day that members of the NC General Assembly took their oath of office.
Published: Sunday, January 13th, 2013 @ 11:58 am
By: Diane Rufino
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December 15 was Bill of Rights Day. It marks the 221st anniversary of the day when the first ten amendments - our Bill of Rights - were ratified in 1791.
Published: Monday, December 31st, 2012 @ 10:47 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The NC Institute for Constitutional Law (NCICL) recently published an article about nullification, asserting that it not a legitimate constitutional remedy.
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 @ 4:41 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Jefferson believed it was up to the States, the parties who drafted and ratified the Constitution and thus created the federal government to stand up to the government when it exceeds constitutional bounds.
Published: Monday, July 16th, 2012 @ 6:05 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Fortunately for Attorney General Eric Holder, his confirmation hearings happened at a time when the Dems were in firm control of both houses of Congress, otherwise the results might have been different.
Published: Thursday, May 31st, 2012 @ 4:43 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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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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