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Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2026 @ 8:23 pm
By: John Steed
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In recent months, the Democrat-controlled North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) has been at odds with conservatives on a number of fronts, causing Republicans to accuse the board of partisanship.
Published: Sunday, October 23rd, 2022 @ 10:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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These developments give many North Carolina conservatives pause. And for good reason.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2019 @ 8:32 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Imagine a man serving a 20-year prison sentence. He's told when to eat and what to wear, and he lacks the option of opening a door. He has little to no independence or free will
Published: Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 @ 3:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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All arguments, political or otherwise, consist of three elements. One is a definition of terms. The second is a set of premises - of facts, real or perceived. The final element is logical reasoning to a conclusion based on those premises
Published: Monday, July 10th, 2017 @ 1:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The evidence is undeniable: North Carolina has outperformed regional and national averages in most standard measures of economic growth, including job creation, gross domestic product, and personal income, since conservatives took control of state government
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 2:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has made another top-10 list - one that should make the state's fiscal conservatives particularly happy
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2016 @ 3:18 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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Lately, tenure has come under heavy criticism, particularly from conservatives who maintain that it protects incompetent, ignorant, or indifferent teachers to the detriment of students
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 1:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Finally. Now that the 2015 General Assembly has adjourned, there's a lot for conservatives to celebrate. This was a session built on the principles that started to turn the state around in 2011.
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2015 @ 7:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Among conservatives around the country, North Carolina has become a superstar - a place where innovative ideas, sustained investment, diligence, and political acumen have combined to produce an impressive string of hard-won victories.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2015 @ 5:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A group of conservatives opposed to the death penalty have started raising awareness of their cause to state leaders.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 4:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One issue that gets North Carolinian blood boiling is the former Center for Work, Poverty, and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's law school. To conservatives it is a symbol of the left's abuse of its dominance of academia, in which a Democratic politician...
Published: Monday, July 27th, 2015 @ 5:31 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A greater reliance on federalism could help address key political concerns for both traditional conservatives and libertarians.
Published: Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 @ 6:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Conservatives and Republicans should avoid spending too much time asking who can win the White House in 2016. Instead they should identify the candidate who can lead once he's in office.
Published: Thursday, May 14th, 2015 @ 10:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Here is the story in NC where we are being constantly told "Conservatives are saving taxpayers money and lowering taxes."
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 @ 4:48 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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I am getting concerned with truth these days. It is almost Christmas and telling lies is supposed to get you a lump of coal and bundle of switches.
Published: Thursday, December 18th, 2014 @ 12:26 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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The on-going US Senate race in North Carolina is really roiling Tar Heel conservatives.
Published: Sunday, October 5th, 2014 @ 3:48 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Fiscal conservatives think government is too large, costs too much, and tries to do too much.
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 @ 12:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Will the real North Carolina conservatives please stand up? Game show aficionados will remember "To Tell the Truth," which aired in one form or another on CBS, NBC, and in syndication for decades. Hosted by the likes of Bud Collyer (the original voice of Superman on radio and motion pictures)...
Published: Saturday, June 14th, 2014 @ 3:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Day in North Carolina was not a great one for bona-fide conservatives.
Published: Friday, May 16th, 2014 @ 2:21 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Newspapers, activists and all who care about open government recently celebrated "Sunshine Week." Now it's time for North Carolina conservatives to make 2014 Sunshine Year.
Published: Wednesday, March 26th, 2014 @ 8:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Moore County's Richard Morgan has evolved into one of the most polarizing figures ever in North Carolina politics. Amazingly, during his time in the NC General Assembly, he was able to earn an equal amount of emnity from conservatives AND liberals.
Published: Monday, March 10th, 2014 @ 1:46 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The North Carolina Republican Party is inarguably bent on proving it is inconsequential to real Conservatives, who actually believe in the tenets of the former Republican Party, and live by Conservative principles.
Published: Friday, January 17th, 2014 @ 1:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Over the past three years, the North Carolina legislature has enacted Ronald Reagan's favorite tax reform, Barry Goldwater's favorite regulatory reform, and Milton Friedman's favorite education reform. Yet some North Carolina conservatives of my acquaintance seem to think that the Republicans who...
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 1:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In part I of this two-part series on the shape and direction of education reform in North Carolina, we looked behind the education budget numbers. Now in Part II we discuss this year's legislative steps to address concerns about student achievement, teacher salaries and school vouchers.
Published: Thursday, October 17th, 2013 @ 11:04 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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As the dust settles on the landmark 2013 North Carolina legislative session, conservatives can look upon the accomplishments of the state legislature and find much to celebrate.
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 @ 8:05 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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From 1972 to 2002, North Carolina was represented in the US Senate by one of the nation's most preeminent conservatives.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2013 @ 2:14 am
By: Brant Clifton
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In a misnamed article, "Common Core is a conservative victory," Republican education reformers Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli used a recent News &Observer op-ed to try and persuade North Carolina conservatives to support the new national Common Core education standards.
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 @ 4:25 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina conservatives have embraced parental choice and competition as indispensable elements of education reform for decades. Now that conservatives are in the majority in state government, you can expect more proposals to...
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2013 @ 8:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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At the only statewide conservative conference in North Carolina, speakers, workshops, and special events will educate and empower conservatives on how we can restore our state to greatness.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 @ 9:50 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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While increasing dependency on government is a very real problem, with both economic and political consequences, it cannot be measured effectively by annual income-tax statistics. Taxation is a process, not an event.
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2012 @ 12:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The most recent publicly-available poll on the District 1 race, by the John W. Pope Civitas Institute published on Aug. 4, seems to partially confirm Richardson as a true contender.
Published: Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 @ 10:43 am
By: BCN
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