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Today, North Carolina lawmakers have declared war on equality with the passage of House Bill 171 (HB 171) and Senate Bills 227 and 558, dismantling decades of civil rights progress and systematically excluding entire communities from public life.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2025 @ 7:32 am
By: ENC NOW
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NC Schools Must now follow “Parents Bill of Rights.” Here’s how things will change that’s the title of an article in yesterday’s Raleigh News and Observer that describes how the recently passed legislation will impact the classroom and our schools.
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 2:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper vetoed the following bills:
Published: Sunday, August 13th, 2023 @ 12:45 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Yesterday a House Judiciary Committee held discussions about a Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) amendment to restrain state budget growth.
Published: Saturday, July 29th, 2023 @ 11:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, the North Carolina House Committee on K-12 Education approved Senate Bill 49, which would enshrine a Parents’ Bill of Rights into law.
Published: Saturday, July 29th, 2023 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House of Representatives, in a virtually straight party-line vote, passed the Parents Bill of Rights bill on Friday. Democrats unanimously opposed the measure; they were joined by five Republicans
Published: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 @ 5:06 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Parents should have the right to determine the direction of their children’s and education, not teachers or the government
Published: Monday, April 3rd, 2023 @ 12:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the proposed Parents’ Bill of Rights in the N.C. Senate.
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 @ 11:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, an ACLU North Carolina lobbyist, Kristie Puckett Williams, made graphic, sexually harassing comments to conservative radio host Pete Kaliner during a Twitter discussion regarding N.C. Senate Bill 49, the Parents’ Bill of Rights.
Published: Monday, February 20th, 2023 @ 2:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In this first episode of Policy Pizza, education policy expert Terry Stoops joins us to discuss the greatness of western Pennsylvania pizza and the benefits of a Parents’ Bill of Rights in education.
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 @ 7:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Bill 755 — the Parents Bill of Rights
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 5:45 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses Locke’s proposed Parents’ Bill of Rights.
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 12:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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House Democrats introduced a “Transgender Bill of Rights” on Tuesday to “protect and codify the rights of transgender and nonbinary people under the law and ensure their access to medical care, shelter, safety, and economic security.”
Published: Saturday, July 9th, 2022 @ 1:59 pm
By: Daily Wire
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H.B. 755 Parents' Bill of Rights may not see the House floor for a vote.
Published: Friday, July 1st, 2022 @ 9:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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has already passed the Senate
Published: Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022 @ 3:26 pm
By: John Steed
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Sunday, May 29th, 2022 @ 3:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Christmas came early this year for Coloradans. Yesterday’s Denver Post read: “single filers will get $400 and joint filers will get $800 this summer in money the state must refund as a result of the voter-approved Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights.”
Published: Friday, May 6th, 2022 @ 10:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For years, we have listened to and read about persons and groups of persons who claim that their right to vote has been disenfranchised.
Published: Monday, December 28th, 2020 @ 7:35 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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MONTICELLO: Missing the Opportunity to Educate Americans on the Extensive Legacy of Thomas JeffersonI was contacted this morning by Monticello, asking for a donation. While those who know me, and perhaps even those who have read my articles, know that Thomas Jefferson is my favorite Founding Father.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 9:47 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the US Constitution. I focused on the content of the Constitution.
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2019 @ 1:54 am
By: Hood Richardson
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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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Gov. Pat McCrory is firing back at the US DOJ for their ridiculous demands to drop gender restrictions on bathrooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms.
Published: Sunday, May 15th, 2016 @ 10:23 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Paul Craig Roberts takes a look at the document that holds the states in a Union and questions whether the legal bonds still exist.
Published: Monday, April 11th, 2016 @ 9:49 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The vacancy of Justice Antonin Scalia's seat on the Supreme Court has set off a predictable power struggle over his replacement
Published: Thursday, March 24th, 2016 @ 7:50 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Each year the North Carolina General Assembly discusses how much is spent on state government. Many, including the John Locke Foundation, argue that a spending limit or cap should be in place. The call for such a cap has not been impromptu, but rather a reaction to inflation-adjusted state...
Published: Friday, August 14th, 2015 @ 2:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Religious liberty - which is the first right secured in the Bill of Rights - has won again in the nation's highest court. In a unanimous decision this week (Holt v. Hobbs), the U.S. Supreme Court has held that an Arkansas state prison policy that prohibited inmates from growing beards...
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2015 @ 10:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tax reform legislation working its way through the General Assembly could affect a Taxpayer Bill of Rights measure originally intended to return...
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 10:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After reading House Bill 976, the Gun Safety Act, it becomes hard to believe that Joe Biden, Diane Feinstein and Andrew Cuomo are nowhere to be found roaming the halls of the North Carolina General Assembly.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2013 @ 11:35 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The useful idiots at McClatchy and WRAL are breaking their necks to paint Bill Barber's lefty fruitcake convention at the legislative building as the moral equivalent of Rosa Parks, James Meredith and MLK crusading for civil rights in the 1960s.
Published: Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 @ 12:59 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The English Bill of Rights was clearly a precursor to our US Bill of Rights.
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 @ 12:35 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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