The U.S. Senate is considering upping the payments to Americans in a massive stimulus bill to stem the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on the economy.
Published: Sunday, March 22nd, 2020 @ 10:18 am
By: Daily Wire
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The president was all business at an afternoon virus briefing.
Published: Saturday, March 21st, 2020 @ 3:23 am
By: LifeZette
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Bills passed by Congress are not only written in language that even Congress cannot understand but they are so long that Congress does not even try to read them.
Published: Friday, August 3rd, 2018 @ 6:47 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Republican U.S. Rep. Walter Jones has been representing eastern North Carolina in the U.S. House for 11 terms. He's hoping to make it 12.
Published: Monday, November 7th, 2016 @ 10:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Common Core Standards is a private and federal initiative to reform public education into one that spits out workers, not thinkers
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 11:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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If you were tuning in to discover the direction of your nation for the next year, you would have been sadly misinformed.
Published: Friday, January 30th, 2015 @ 8:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The handling of a $250,644 stimulus grant received by a company co-owned by Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's husband has been referred to the state auditor by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources for "further legal review," according to documents obtained by Carolina Journal.
Published: Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 @ 4:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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JDC Manufacturing, a company co-owned by Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's husband Charles "Chip" Hagan, lowered the total cost of a 2010 stimulus-funded energy project but kept all of the savings, sending none back to taxpayers who had funded the stimulus grant.
Published: Thursday, October 16th, 2014 @ 4:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sen. Kay Hagan refused to address reporters at last night's post-debate press conference for good reason. Hagan amazingly claimed that it was "appropriate" for her family's company to profit from nearly $390,000 in taxpayer-funded stimulus money that came from the very same stimulus bill she voted f
Published: Monday, October 13th, 2014 @ 5:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The 2009 so-called "stimulus" passed by the Congress was one of the biggest budget-busting, deficit-growing, big-government, cronyism-enabling scams to ever come out of our capital city.
Published: Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 @ 12:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Instruction's Common Core Demystified, (CCD) we confronted DPI's claims that Common Core Standards are state-led and DPI's assertion that teachers will maintain control of the curriculum and how subjects are taught.
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 @ 9:33 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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How many North Carolinians know that public school education in the state is centered around the government's Common Core initiative?
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 9:15 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Last fall public schools in North Carolina along with 44 other states began implementing Common Core Standards.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2013 @ 9:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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In a previous article, I highlighted questionable assumptions underlying national Common Core Standards (CCS) in English and mathematics, which in 2010 were adopted by the North Carolina State Board of Education.
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 10:09 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Electric vehicle stations are springing up in North Carolina, partly a result of federal stimulus money going to the stations.
Published: Thursday, October 25th, 2012 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Before passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in 1965, the United States Congress generally adhered to the principle that the federal government had no authority to undertake functions and duties not enumerated in the U.S. Constitution.
Published: Wednesday, October 17th, 2012 @ 5:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The official name of the sweeping healthcare reform bill is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148). It passed the House of Congress narrowly, by a vote of 220 - 215.
Published: Saturday, October 13th, 2012 @ 7:58 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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In recent months, liberal advocacy groups have conducted a concerted attack against the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Washington, D.C.- based nonpartisan public-policy group created in 1973 that promotes federalism, free markets, and limited government.
Published: Monday, June 25th, 2012 @ 10:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The headline at ABC News.com reads "President Obama, Bill Clinton Stump on Growth vs. Austerity Agenda." While referring to the economic debate going on in Europe, Britain's New Statesman displays the headline "The Austerity vs. Growth Argument is Hotting [sic] Up."
Published: Friday, June 22nd, 2012 @ 1:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This article follows the one I previously wrote, entitled "Who is Really Disenfranchised?" In that article I talked about the incessant claims of "disenfranchisement" of minority voters when no such disenfranchisement exists nor any intent to do so.
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2012 @ 8:49 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Why the titular "The Amazing Story of the Incredible Shrinking President?" Because the man, who is presiding as the chief executive charged with leading the most influential nation in this most unsettled world, is becoming very small, very quickly.
Published: Saturday, September 24th, 2011 @ 1:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is said that the Tea Party movement started with a rant by Rick Santelli, of CNBC, on the trading floor of CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) Group in Chicago on Feb. 19, 2009 but the real truth is that it started even before that.
Published: Saturday, July 30th, 2011 @ 10:24 am
By: Diane Rufino
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We have heard a lot of assumptions about the anticipation of economic growth, and we have heard how perplexed our budget planners are about unanticipated declines.
Published: Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 @ 12:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is acknowledged that the views and the writings philosopher John Locke played a crucial role in our Founders' view of liberty.
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2011 @ 12:01 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The Constitution was also written to memorialize the notion that sovereign power rests with the individual and not with the federal government or any governmental agency.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2011 @ 2:32 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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His speech to the Beaufort County Democratic Party Executive Committee attempted to cast a silver lining around the past two years, so that he and his Democratic colleagues can retain power.
Published: Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 @ 5:33 pm
By: BCN
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I went to Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally two weeks ago, and then got right back into my van and drove back up to Washington D.C. for the 9/12 Rally.
Published: Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 @ 9:35 am
By: Diane Rufino
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March 21, 2010: The day our elected officials ignored the will of the people and took that huge leap down the road to socialism.
Published: Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 @ 7:32 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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President Obama is finding that his former prowess as a community organizer has not prepared him to be the leader of the free world.
Published: Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 @ 9:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The current United States Congress and the President of the United States are simpatico on this one issue: There will mortgage the twin futures of our nation and our children to get into office.
Published: Sunday, November 1st, 2009 @ 8:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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