The event's featured speaker, however, was none other than Glenn Beck, who delivered a riveting speech outlining exactly what is at stake in the government's concerted scheme to shut down political opposition.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 3:42 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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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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Sometimes irony is like getting smacked by a two-by-four: It hurts like heck when you get hit, but, oh, the lesson you'll learn.
Published: Friday, February 8th, 2013 @ 12:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In this article, I hope to convince grassroots conservatives to unite in the coming year to re-assert founding values and strengthen principles of Liberty and to reject the contorted view of the Constitution that President Barack Obama is pushing on the American people.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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It is easy to see how our Founder's were influenced by John Locke when designing our government and drafting our founding documents.
Published: Sunday, November 18th, 2012 @ 1:44 pm
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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When a curious woman approached Benjamin Franklin as he was leaving the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787 and asked him what kind of government the delegates had given the people, he replied: "...A Republic, Ma'am, if you can keep it."
Published: Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 @ 10:05 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Lately, the Beaufort County Republican Party Executive Committee, which I chair, has been either commended or crucified by other Republican activists. Contrary to the belief of many, I do not think we are saints or sinners in this regard.
Published: Monday, October 29th, 2012 @ 12:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week marks the start of the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will be named the GOP ticket for November's election. We already know that Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be the Democratic ticket.
Published: Monday, August 27th, 2012 @ 11:35 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Hammering forcefully at what he called President Obama's "raid" on Medicare, divisive re-election tactics and economic policies that have put America on the edge of a fiscal cliff, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told a Raleigh crowd Wednesday it is imperative to elect Republican challenge
Published: Friday, August 24th, 2012 @ 2:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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On Thursday, the 21st of June, you are called to attend the U.S. Constitution Seminar taught by Dr. Charles Taylor. The cost of the teaching materials is $5.00, and the benefits derived from this experience will last a lifetime.
Published: Sunday, June 17th, 2012 @ 8:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It has be an honor working for you all during this primary election. I appreciate how hard each of you worked to further our cause, saving the United States of America.
Published: Thursday, May 10th, 2012 @ 4:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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What does the word "Secession" mean?
Published: Saturday, September 10th, 2011 @ 10:26 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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The English Bill of Rights was clearly a precursor to our US Bill of Rights.
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 @ 12:35 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.
Published: Monday, July 4th, 2011 @ 8:16 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Responding to abusive detention of persons without legal authority, public pressure on the English Parliament caused them to adopt this act, which established a critical right that was later written into the Constitution for the United States.
Published: Sunday, July 3rd, 2011 @ 7:39 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The Petition of Right of 1628 is a statement of the objectives of the 1628 English legal reform movement that led to the Civil War and deposing of Charles I in 1649.
Published: Sunday, July 3rd, 2011 @ 12:22 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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If we look back on our grade school education, we remember being taught the very fundamentals of what went on at the Constitutional Convention.
Published: Monday, June 27th, 2011 @ 12:40 am
By: Diane Rufino
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This 6th installment in Diane Rufino's series examining Our Founding Principles considers the many clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
Published: Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 @ 12:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This is install considers: the the first ten in the Bill of Rights, an overview of the Constitution, and then the remaining seventeen of the Bill of Rights.
Published: Sunday, September 12th, 2010 @ 10:20 am
By: Diane Rufino
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In this 4th segment of Diane Rufino's examination of our Founding Principles, she examines: Compact Federalism, the Federalist Farmer andAlexis de Tocqueville.
Published: Friday, September 10th, 2010 @ 9:03 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; It is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
Published: Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 @ 1:42 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Prospective lawmakers appeal to Beaufort County voters.
Published: Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 @ 11:05 pm
By: BCN
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