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What does Independence Day - the 4th of July - mean to you?
Published: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 9:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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There are many people who overlook the brilliance of the US Constitution. They argue that it is outdated and unfit to adequately govern such a modern nation as ours in the 21st century.
Published: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 4:41 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Perhaps what Independence Day is all about is to reflect on our history and to rekindle our revolutionary spirit every year... our great love of liberty.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Stay free
Published: Tuesday, July 4th, 2023 @ 8:57 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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I’m a long-time activist. I started a Tea Party group in 2009 in my area of North Carolina and have been running it ever since.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Progressive leftists want to convince you of the difference between human rights and property rights
Published: Sunday, July 10th, 2022 @ 2:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Cheers and Anguish. Victory and Tragedy. Both are on full display now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned. It’s been a long time in the making.
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2022 @ 5:41 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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In late March, a super PAC started by U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s 2020 Democrat opponent, Moe Davis, endorsed Wendy Nevarez in the Republican primary for N.C.’s 11th Congressional District.
Published: Friday, April 1st, 2022 @ 5:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The very reason for government is, as the Founders made clear in the Declaration of Independence, to defend and protect (“secure”) everyone’s God-given rights.
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 12:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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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: Sunday, February 21st, 2021 @ 7:59 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The vast majority of conservatives accept that government can and should intervene in private affairs when required to protect the rights to life, liberty, and property.
Published: Friday, November 27th, 2020 @ 8:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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More than 12,000 people gathered at the California State Capitol in Sacramento on Sunday for a Christian music concert and worship service, according to an estimate by one of its organizers.
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2020 @ 3:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Today, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Grant of Clemency (Full Pardon) posthumously to Susan B. Anthony
Published: Thursday, August 20th, 2020 @ 12:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Joshua Lawson explains in a Federalist column how real efforts to defund police would threaten “American lives, liberty, and property.”
Published: Wednesday, June 17th, 2020 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a $5 billion tax increase, his Republican rivals would be both furious and gleeful — furious about the potential economic consequences, that is, and gleeful about the political ones.
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 @ 6:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Two hundred forty-three years ago today, our Founding Fathers, gathered in Philadelphia, adopted the Declaration of Independence and cast off the shackles of tyranny.
Published: Saturday, July 6th, 2019 @ 10:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On this day 55 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing discrimination based on race, religion, sex, or national origin.
Published: Friday, July 5th, 2019 @ 1:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On September 3, 1783, representatives from the American states, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay, and a representative of King George III signed the Treaty of Paris to officially end the American Revolutionary War against Great Britain.
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2019 @ 12:09 am
By: Diane Rufino
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For those who aren't familiar with Margaret Sanger and her influence on the Eugenics movement and on the Women's Rights movement, here is an excellent article
Published: Thursday, February 21st, 2019 @ 12:58 am
By: Diane Rufino
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When it comes to debates over tax reform or tax cuts (rarely for tax increases), it is quite typical for questions of fairness and justice to be part of the conversation
Published: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 @ 12:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. State Representative Beverly Boswell has earned the endorsement of North Carolina Right to Life and was ranked 4th in the State House by the North Carolina Values Coalition for championing family values like limiting abortion, protecting religious freedoms, allowing school choice, and ensuring
Published: Tuesday, May 1st, 2018 @ 9:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Isn't "modern conservatism" a contradiction in terms? That's one of the questions I received after teaching a seminar at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy entitled "Modern Conservatism and Policy."
Published: Sunday, March 18th, 2018 @ 11:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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John Locke Foundation founder and former chairman Art Pope today was elected chairman of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, one of the nation's largest conservative grantmaking charitable organizations
Published: Saturday, April 8th, 2017 @ 8:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite the 4th Circuit decision striking down the NC Voter ID law, there are options that our Governor, Pat McCrory, and our state legislature can take to provide reasonable and common-sense measures at polling places next month.
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 5:35 am
By: Diane Rufino
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As the candidates for North Carolina attorney general, Republican Buck Newton and Democrat Josh Stein, met September 20 at Asheboro’s Sunset Theatre for their only formal debate, they couldn’t have known that just 90 minutes to their south and west, riots were about to break out in Charlotte
Published: Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 @ 8:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lovers of socialized medicine are quick to point out that the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn't have some form of universal, government-run, i.e., single-payer, health care system. While this may be true, the U.S. system of health care payment and delivery does...
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 @ 11:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lovers of socialized medicine are quick to point out that the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn't have some form of universal government run, i.e., single payer, health care system. While this may be true, the US system of health care payment and delivery does...
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 6:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For decades pundits have been debating whether people have a "right" to health care.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 5:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For decades people have been debating whether or not people have a "right" to health care. The notion of rights that is typically invoked is distinct from the question of whether people have a right to enter the market for health care services and engage in exchange activity in order to obtain...
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 6:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Late in the day on Friday, 10/10/2014, the Federal Court handed down its decision over the NC Marriage Amendment, adopted with great angst a couple of years ago.
Published: Tuesday, October 14th, 2014 @ 5:29 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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