As state lawmakers made their way back to work Jan. 9, they faced nearly 200 protesters on the lawn in front of the General Assembly building.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 @ 11:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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But I have serious problems in his (Abraham Lincoln) legal and Constitutional justifications for the Civil War.
Published: Monday, November 19th, 2012 @ 3:46 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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One of the more interesting outcomes of Tuesday's election in North Carolina was the contrast between Pat McCrory's 12-point blowout victory for governor and the much closer races for Council of State.
Published: Friday, November 9th, 2012 @ 9:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The media is dismissing Steve Royal, the GOP nominee for state treasurer, as an also-ran -- an after-thought.
Published: Monday, November 5th, 2012 @ 9:19 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The Council of State races tend to get overlooked by the media in favor of the more glamorous presidential and gubernatorial campaigns.
Published: Friday, November 2nd, 2012 @ 7:03 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Remember the video of Robin Hayes's temper tantrum at the RNC? There was an older gentleman in the video who was invited as a guest speaker to explain his concerns with the rules changes.
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2012 @ 6:25 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I was listening to Rush discuss the flap over the rules changes at the GOP national convention. He made an excellent point:
Published: Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 @ 6:31 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Some regular readers of this blog have shared a great video with me from the recently-completed national Republican Convention in Tampa.
Published: Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 @ 12:55 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Senator Harry Reid said,” The Tea Party movement is dead in the water under his leadership, since the Tea Party will disappear as the economy improves, and it is improving every day.”
Published: Sunday, August 26th, 2012 @ 3:48 pm
By: Marvin Sparks
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The term "third rail," in the context of politics, refers to a policy one cannot touch for fear that he will suffer career electrocution. The analogy stems from the hazardous third rail that powers some train systems.
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2012 @ 10:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While unfunded liabilities continue to garner plenty of attention in the press, I fear a lack of understanding means this attention is failing to translate into legislative action.
Published: Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 @ 4:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is a good thing the doctrines of nullification and interposition are being revived. Perhaps it's the urgency of the constitutional crisis we face that has made the doctrines so appealing and sensible.
Published: Sunday, June 10th, 2012 @ 5:08 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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All conservatives got a surprise when several self certified conservative Republicans suddenly flipped to the liberal side
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2012 @ 12:50 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Four members of North Carolina's congressional delegation earned an "F" grade for their votes on fiscal issues during the 2011 session of Congress, according to new rankings from the National Taxpayer Union, a limited-government advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.
Published: Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 @ 11:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"I was disappointed when I read the article in the Greenville Daily Reflector in which Walter Jones refused the request by the Republican Women of Pitt County to debate me."
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 @ 8:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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"The Due Process Guarantee Act of 2011" was introduced in both the House and Senate to give the illusion that Members of Congress were actually listening to the concerns of We the People.
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 @ 9:58 pm
By: Jeff Lewis
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In the President’s Weekly Address on March 10, 2012, Barack Obama stated, “You and I both know that with only 2% of the world’s oil reserves, we can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices – not when we consume 20% of the world’s oil.
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2012 @ 9:20 am
By: David Pring-Mill
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Although Rick Santorum made the news headlines by winning the Alabama and Mississippi primaries, it was Mitt Romney who got a bit closer to the nomination in the count that really mattered - the number of delegates awarded in all four of Tuesday's contests.
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2012 @ 7:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political math isn't all about arithmetic. According to the arithmetic, Mitt Romney didn't clinch the GOP presidential nomination in yesterday's Super Tuesday balloting.
Published: Thursday, March 8th, 2012 @ 10:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Obamacare has the potential to transform this country into one that dangerously curbs our fundamental freedoms, socializes wealth, status, and risk, and puts us at the mercy and the discretion of a government that is more interested in social engineering than the individual rights.
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2012 @ 12:12 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Newt Gingrich, who has said many things that have inspired, and similarly, dismayed many prospective supporters, found a way to win in South Carolina, and win big as well.
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2012 @ 8:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In early New Hampshire Primary results, Mitt Romney is projected to win the New Hampshire Republican Primary, with Ron Paul running a distant second.
Published: Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 @ 9:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It has been a "photo finish" in the Republican Caucuses in Iowa, with Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum jockeying for 1st or 2nd in this race that launches the Republican primary season.
Published: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 @ 11:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Our world is coming apart. The reactions to this are daily becoming more ridiculous.
Published: Sunday, October 30th, 2011 @ 9:49 am
By: Dean Stephens
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A growing number of the American youth is bridging the gap between American liberalism and Libertarianism as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
Published: Monday, August 23rd, 2010 @ 2:21 pm
By: BCN
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