What does Independence Day - the 4th of July - mean to you?
Published: Wednesday, July 5th, 2023 @ 12:13 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Government is best and most responsive to the individual when it is closest to them. We're talking about the local, the county, and even the state level.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: Diane Rufino
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When I talk to folks about the Constitution, I usually comment that “the Constitution holds all the answers to the problems that are plaguing us as a country,” and as a republic.
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2022 @ 12:03 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Make no mistake, abortion on-demand is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court’s result (referring to Roe v. Wade) has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 @ 12:55 pm
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 They argue that it is outdated and unfit to adequately govern such a modern nation as ours in the 21st century.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: Sunday, July 3rd, 2022 @ 2:54 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Hey Everyone, I have some very exciting news to share.
Published: Sunday, May 15th, 2022 @ 3:40 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The term “Gerrymandering” refers to the act of manipulating the boundaries of voting districts to achieve some political advantage.
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 1:22 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The Constitution established the United States as a democratic republic. It is democratic because the people govern themselves, and it is a republic because the government’s power is derived from its people.
Published: Saturday, February 19th, 2022 @ 8:21 am
By: Diane Rufino
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“Nullification” is the doctrine, articulated best by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (our two greatest Founding Fathers) which essentially holds that that the federal government is a creature of the states
Published: Friday, February 18th, 2022 @ 6:12 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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I have been reading the current abortion case that has come out of the state of Mississippi and which was heard in oral argument in front of the Supreme Court on Dec. 1, 2021.
Published: Thursday, February 17th, 2022 @ 4:56 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The Secretary of Labor, acting through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), enacted a vaccine mandate on November 5, 2021 for much of the Nation's work force.
Published: Saturday, February 5th, 2022 @ 12:09 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Writing in Federalist #46, James Madison provided a 4-step strategy to bring down federal programs, without waiting on the federal government to limit its own power.
Published: Tuesday, February 1st, 2022 @ 6:28 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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I have been reading the current abortion case that has come out of the state of Mississippi and which was heard in oral argument in front of the Supreme Court on Dec. 1, 2021.
Published: Monday, December 6th, 2021 @ 12:05 am
By: Diane Rufino
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I think of the government as a machine.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 11:16 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Voter Identification Assurances & Election Reforms
Published: Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 @ 10:25 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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A Proposed State Sovereignty Resolution (“A Re-Declaration of Independence”) for North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, April 27th, 2021 @ 6:17 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: 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: Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 @ 8:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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When it comes to an inherent right, nothing is regulated quite like the Second Amendment.
Published: Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 @ 8:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 4:17 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: Monday, February 22nd, 2021 @ 9:06 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Our country is, no doubt, in a horrible mess - an embarrassment to the world and on the verge of destroying the very goodness, principles, and freedom that we had been founded on.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2021 @ 11:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This article comes from a few remarks I made to introduce my last TEA Party meeting.
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 @ 9:42 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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As established in the federal constitution, America’s national government was meant to be small and tightly focused on matters of truly nationwide scope.
Published: Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019 @ 11:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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My professor at law school, Judge Andrew Napolitano, FOX News Senior Legal Analyst, wrote an excellent article on Red Flag Laws.
Published: Thursday, October 17th, 2019 @ 12:06 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The forgotten American is the blue-collar taxpayer who attends church on Sundays. He toils diligently so that he can put bread on the table for his family and children, but he lives paycheck-to-paycheck on a tight budget.
Published: Saturday, October 5th, 2019 @ 2:41 am
By: Daily Wire
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The case District of Columbia v. Heller is the landmark Supreme Court case decided in 2008, and written by the late great conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, which finally looked at the roots and origins of the Second Amendment.
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2019 @ 3:32 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The case District of Columbia v. Heller is the landmark Supreme Court case decided in 2008, and written by the late great conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, which finally looked at the roots and origins of the Second Amendment.
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2019 @ 10:21 am
By: Diane Rufino
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In an era when the States have been reduced to virtual provinces or wards of the federal government and the Tenth Amendment is repeatedly and audaciously ignored, it is refreshing to look back and appreciate how strongly President Calvin Coolidge resisted spending federal dollars on local issues.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 4:09 am
By: Diane Rufino
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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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December 15 marks a very special day in our founding history - On that date in 1791, the first 14 states (Vermont had just been admitted to the Union as the 14th state), ratified the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, known collectively as our Bill of Rights.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 3:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Four days ago, a date came and went without much mention. Yet it was so significant.
Published: Thursday, January 3rd, 2019 @ 6:55 am
By: Diane Rufino
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