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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 They argue that it is outdated and unfit to adequately govern such a modern nation as ours in the 21st century.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: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 4:41 am
By: Diane Rufino
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I’m a long-time activist. I started a Tea Party group in 2009 in my area of North Carolina and have been running it ever since.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Informed people will want to know this information
Published: Friday, May 6th, 2022 @ 1:44 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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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: Friday, February 18th, 2022 @ 10:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The very reason for government is, as the Founders made clear in the Declaration of Independence, to defend and protect (“secure”) everyone’s God-given rights.
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 12:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We’ve heard about supply chain issues for months now and inflation even longer than that. But in the background, quietly driving up costs around the world, is deglobalization.
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 11:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Imagine yourself cut off from the rest of society. Not from all social interactions, however, just from all economic exchanges
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 @ 7:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Reportedly, Americans are more interested in socialism now. How much that is actually true, I don't know. Media political reporting today contains so much projection, it's hard to tell
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2018 @ 3:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is a puzzling expression regularly being used by members of the Trump administration that, they argue, describes a major goal of their protectionist trade policies: "reciprocal trade."
Published: Friday, August 24th, 2018 @ 3:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When conservatives advocate lower taxes and less regulation, their critics often retort that conservatives are just advancing the interest of business
Published: Tuesday, August 7th, 2018 @ 12:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is a puzzling term regularly being used by members of the Trump administration that, they argue, is the ultimate goal of their protectionist trade policies. The phrase is "reciprocal trade."
Published: Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 @ 11:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The year 1776 was the high watermark of the Enlightenment. Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, and Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence
Published: Friday, July 13th, 2018 @ 12:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have found the recent demonization of Facebook and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg fascinating and revelatory
Published: Monday, May 21st, 2018 @ 11:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"If you look at the U.S. current account balance…we are ceding about $450 billion of our wealth to mostly Southeast Asia and a little bit to Mexico." Kyle Bass, Founder of Hayman Capital Management on the Fox Business Channel.
Published: Monday, May 14th, 2018 @ 5:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Typically, "saving American jobs" is the reason given for implementing protectionist trade measures, i.e., tariffs and quotas. The argument goes something like this: foreign producers of a product are offering American consumers a more attractive price or better quality product than they can get fro
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 8:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the years I’ve written several articles about the differences between economic growth and economic development
Published: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The sober realization is that socialism is still challenging freedom - even with the irrefutable mountain of evidence of its abject failure and toll on humans everywhere it has been tried
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2018 @ 4:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A few weeks ago I went camping with some fellow members of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Young Americans for Liberty chapter
Published: Tuesday, June 21st, 2016 @ 12:39 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The lines below from Adam Smith would argue in favor of getting artificial barriers to business out of the way of entrepreneurs.
Published: Friday, August 23rd, 2013 @ 10:34 am
By: Warren Smith
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Critics often blast entrepreneurs as people who think only about ways to make a buck. That characterization bothers Felix Livingston, professor of economics at Flagler College. During a spring visit to Campbell University, Livingston explained why he's promoting a concept called...
Published: Sunday, July 7th, 2013 @ 6:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sellers of goods and services are motivated to do their best when they can make more money if they do a great job of satisfying their customers. On the other hand, very few will put forth their best when there is no extrinsic reward for doing so.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2013 @ 9:29 pm
By: George Leef
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"The overthrow of the medieval guild system," wrote Milton Friedman in his seminal work Capitalism and Freedom, "was an indispensable early step in the rise of freedom in the Western world.
Published: Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 @ 5:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Quick Start II building is now offered for sale at $1.5 million. This is $900,000 beneath its construction cost and the loss must be increased to include financing, maintenance and depreciation of the structure due to age.
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 @ 12:47 pm
By: Warren Smith
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When you look at the current political scene in The City of Washington, you have to ask who is asking the tough questions and offering solutions on behalf of the taxpayers.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2011 @ 9:19 am
By: John Lacava
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The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; It is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
Published: Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 @ 1:42 am
By: Diane Rufino
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