Are you a good person who wants to help the poor? You've come to the right place! Liberals are famous for caring for the poor better than anyone else, and they've pioneered 100% effective ways of helping the less fortunate in our midst.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 10:34 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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North Carolina’s state motto offers a great guide to policymakers
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 1:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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WAMY Community Action is a Safety Net Benefiting from NCCash.com Program
Published: Thursday, November 10th, 2022 @ 2:55 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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We do not need gun control. We need accountability for gun abuse and, personal behavior. We do not have the stomach, the treasure or opportunity to recover a decent society unless we adamantly involve ourselves in reinstating one.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 3:37 pm
By: Holly Audette
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For all their virtue-signaling about caring for the poor, the progressive game plan to help the poor has an abysmal track record.
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 12:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you read conservative culture commentary with any regularity, you’ll frequently come across an article or two highlighting the critical importance of fathers in the lives of their children.
Published: Friday, July 23rd, 2021 @ 1:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recent op-eds and editorials from the News & Observer have lambasted the state legislature’s plan to use a budget surplus to cut taxes.
Published: Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 @ 7:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Unfortunately, our current politicized culture causes many to look first to the government when they think about charitable giving and helping those in need.
Published: Sunday, December 27th, 2020 @ 10:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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One of the biggest political and cultural shifts over 90 or so years is the clamoring for the government to do more in just about every area of society.
Published: Saturday, December 26th, 2020 @ 11:08 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Garbage in, garbage out. This rule of thumb applies to every field of human behavior — very much including politics.
Published: Thursday, January 16th, 2020 @ 6:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The billionaire 2020 Dem candidate insists he wants to commit 'our country to new and innovative ways to combat poverty — there has to be a war on poverty'
Published: Friday, December 13th, 2019 @ 1:42 pm
By: LifeZette
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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 @ 12:45 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The great British statesman and writer Edmund Burke was a critic of his government's treatment of the American colonies in the years preceding the Revolutionary War
Published: Monday, November 26th, 2018 @ 6:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's popular these days to talk about the potential outbreak of a second Civil War. I've not been immune to that sentiment - I've probably used that language in the past.
Published: Friday, August 3rd, 2018 @ 3:52 pm
By: Daily Wire
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While the term “fake news” may be of recent vintage, the phenomenon isn’t. For decades, policymakers in North Carolina and elsewhere have trafficked in poorly understood, misleading, or demonstrably false information
Published: Friday, June 22nd, 2018 @ 10:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The ink is dry, but the howling from the Left continues. The 2017 tax reform law is in place and working as advertised - lower personal and corporate taxes, more money in the pockets of Americans, repatriation of billions of dollars of corporate profit, and an economy that will be robust
Published: Saturday, March 24th, 2018 @ 9:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Isn't "modern conservatism" a contradiction in terms? That's one of the questions I received after teaching a seminar at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy entitled "Modern Conservatism and Policy."
Published: Sunday, March 18th, 2018 @ 11:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We want to be wanted and we need to be needed. Call it the human condition or the need for dignity
Published: Sunday, December 31st, 2017 @ 2:03 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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What do I know about you?
Published: Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 @ 10:06 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Politicians have two main rhetorical tools as their disposal. When they want to build rapport with voters, they pull out a trusty anecdote
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 9:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mention the words "social justice" to a conservative, and you might see eyes roll
Published: Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 @ 10:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Anthony Bruno has a thoughtful response to all those on FB who blast Donald Trump
Published: Friday, September 11th, 2015 @ 2:14 am
By: Anthony Bruno
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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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ObamaCare is crippling the economy and killing what has been the greatest health care system in the world. And the drivebys and the politicians are focused on the Confederate flag.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2015 @ 6:36 am
By: Brant Clifton
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I gave you a description of the Conservative Takeover of the largest and most democratic religious group in America--- the Southern Baptist Convention.
Published: Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 @ 11:28 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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At the behest of Representative Walter Jones, there is hearing THIS MONDAY at Manteo over the proposed Offshore Drilling studies between the Outer Banks and the pristine Gulf Stream.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 2:39 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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If you've had some discomfort with the way DC has been handling the war on terror lately, the recent words of State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf should make you run for the medicine cabinet - or Walgreen's - for more Maalox:
Published: Friday, February 20th, 2015 @ 7:12 am
By: Brant Clifton
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What can be done to help the poor is a perennial issue in politics, and with it comes what is to me a real puzzler: Why do those who seem most adamant that government programs are the best way to serve the needs of the poor also seem the least interested in whether those programs actually work?
Published: Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014 @ 8:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What can be done to help the poor is a perennial issue in politics, and with it comes what is to me a real puzzler. Why do those who seem most adamant that government programs are the best way to serve the needs of the poor also seem the least interested in whether those programs actually work?
Published: Monday, December 8th, 2014 @ 9:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last month, in a sermon the media described as "fire and thunder," the Rev. William Barber, head of the NC NAACP, mounted the pulpit of Zion Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and began to excoriate all things political - to the right.
Published: Thursday, February 6th, 2014 @ 9:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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If University of Chicago economist Bruce Meyer and Notre Dame economist James Sullivan are correct, much of the recent political chatter about the 50 anniversary of the War on Poverty was little more than uninformed nonsense.
Published: Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 @ 1:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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