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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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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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows
Published: Sunday, January 31st, 2021 @ 10:50 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The two main factors that should be considered when evaluating how hospital mergers affect a health-care market for patients are prices and quality.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 5:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Three words you almost never hear from politicians is "I was wrong." I'm not one, but can admit that on the subject of Medicaid expansion I was wrong. Now our legislature should do the same.
Published: Thursday, July 26th, 2018 @ 9:05 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Now 6 months into a young Trump presidency, the Republicans who were have promised for years on end to repeal Obamacare need to do so immediately.
Published: Monday, July 31st, 2017 @ 7:28 pm
By: Austin Goss
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This article is to remind folks of the loss of freedom we suffered at the hands of President Obama and his administration with the unconstitutional and universal healthcare scheme he misrepresented and then forced on the American people.
Published: Monday, March 13th, 2017 @ 10:43 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The United States has grown far too large to still be considered a "republican form of government" as guaranteed under Article IV. The question is this: How do we get this form of self-government back?
Published: Sunday, August 14th, 2016 @ 11:05 am
By: Diane Rufino
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"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2015 @ 5:56 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Diane Rufino proposes a solution to the Social Security problem, by asking Congress to legislatively define SS as a property right
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 @ 1:34 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted for H.R. 596, To Repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
Published: Saturday, February 7th, 2015 @ 4:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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BarryO has decided he wants to give everybody a free ride through community college. Heck. His radical overhaul of healthcare has worked *so well.* Why not meddle here?
Published: Saturday, January 31st, 2015 @ 2:39 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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When we speak about "academic freedom" what, exactly, do we mean? How far should academic freedom extend? How do we know when someone claiming it has actually abused it?
Published: Monday, January 26th, 2015 @ 6:17 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Robeson County reduced the workweeks for 367 part-time employees and capped them at 25 hours weekly to avoid higher health insurance costs associated with mandates in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Published: Monday, December 1st, 2014 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two recent federal appeals court rulings address the question of whether Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies for individual-market consumers can be distributed to those purchasing insurance through federal exchanges.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 12:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday ruled 2-1 that the federal government cannot tax employers in order to provide health insurance subsidies in North Carolina and 35 other states that refused to establish Obamacare exchanges, potentially threatening the national health reform.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 8:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even though he lacks the blessing of the GOP leadership in Congress, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., is pushing a national health care reform he says would do precisely what the GOP establishment has pushed — repealing and replacing government-driven Obamacare with a system allowing more...
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 2:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In North Carolina, most news coverage on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, has focused on the massive technical failures of the federal exchange website.
Published: Monday, January 20th, 2014 @ 8:27 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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People who sign up for health insurance on the new Obamacare exchanges may qualify for subsidies. The subsidy amount one receives is determined by the individual's projected annual household income for 2014.
Published: Friday, October 25th, 2013 @ 6:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For the second time in recent weeks, a federal judge has issued a ruling favorable to plaintiffs seeking to block the IRS from collecting tax penalties from employers in states such as North Carolina that do not have a state health insurance exchange under Obamacare. If any of several lawsuits...
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2013 @ 8:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the enrollment period for Obamacare experiences a rocky start, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt says his state's "very consequential" lawsuit against the mandates in the health insurance law could lead to a fiscal nightmare in 34 states.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 12:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the North Carolina medical community presses ahead with a sweeping conversion to electronic health records, privacy advocates warn that confidential medical data is in jeopardy, and patients' most intimate health information could be used in harmful ways against them.
Published: Friday, August 23rd, 2013 @ 10:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In recent months, state education officials and public school advocacy groups have continued to demand that state legislators pony up...
Published: Saturday, June 8th, 2013 @ 9:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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S 99/H 440: Examples of bad bills that would give special benefits to a select group of corporationsIn Alice In Wonderland Humpty Dumpty said to Alice: "'When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2013 @ 1:25 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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The catch phrase "privatizing Medicaid" currently thrown around in the media is misleading.
Published: Friday, April 19th, 2013 @ 7:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's too bad the Washington Monument remains closed following last year's earthquake. That is traditionally the first thing the bureaucrats (read - politicians) threaten to close when they haven't received the total amount of money they have requested in their budgets.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 @ 6:06 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Gavels in both the House and the Senate are set to fall at noon as the General Assembly begins its 2013 session in earnest.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 11:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The day before the Obama administration's deadline for states to declare whether they will create a state health insurance exchange to comply with the president's national health reform law.
Published: Sunday, December 16th, 2012 @ 11:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Amid growing sentiment by conservatives that states can derail Obamacare by refusing to create health care exchanges, Gov.-elect Pat McCrory says he has not decided whether to join other Republican governors in following that path.
Published: Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 @ 12:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Gov.-elect Pat McCrory promised Thursday to scrutinize the efficiency and accountability of government departments and programs, while vowing to work across political and geographical boundaries to create more jobs and bring "a mayor's attitude" of problem-solving to Raleigh.
Published: Friday, November 9th, 2012 @ 7:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as Obamacare, was passed in 2010 in a hurried process that allowed for little understanding of what was in the 2,700-page document.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 10:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While Republican Robert Pittenger invokes a need to return to the principles of Ronald Reagan, and Democrat Jennifer Roberts implores voters to remember she works in a bipartisan manner, the campaign cash gap between them grows.
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2012 @ 12:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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