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Lately, I’ve been thinking about the word balance. We refer to a well-balanced life as one with equilibrium between work, family and recreation.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2022 @ 7:15 am
By: Tom Campbell
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''China Mitch'' McConnell also opposes
Published: Friday, June 17th, 2022 @ 4:33 pm
By: John Steed
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Beaufort County Government raises money by taxation to provide government for the People of our community. Your local government raises that money through a statutory provision known as the Machinery Act, which gives your government the Police Power to annually take your property.`
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 7:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Court packing would only ruin the ideological balance.
Published: Sunday, June 6th, 2021 @ 4:33 pm
By: LifeZette
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From the end of the Civil War through much of the 20th century, North Carolina effectively was a one-party state: Democratic.
Published: Sunday, November 29th, 2020 @ 12:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Checks and balances within our government’s structure play an important role.
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2020 @ 3:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We recently published a story about the new proposal from the State Elections Board that would constitute an excess government overreach of power for the Executive Director.
Published: Sunday, May 10th, 2020 @ 8:38 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) joined as an original co-sponsor of H. Res 818, which was introduced today by Congressman Ted Budd (NC-13).
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2020 @ 12:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones, a longtime deficit hawk, continued efforts to reign in our nation’s runaway debt, and cosponsored H.R. 5572, the One Percent Spending Reduction Act, also known as the “Penny Plan.”
Published: Friday, April 20th, 2018 @ 7:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Yesterday evening, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3), a long-time deficit hawk and a warrior against wasteful spending, voted once again for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution (H.J.Res. 2)
Published: Saturday, April 14th, 2018 @ 12:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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No issue better epitomizes our broken federal government than the debt. And like Democrats, Republicans have failed miserably to control federal spending
Published: Saturday, March 24th, 2018 @ 10:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Please do not blame us! We thought we were doing the right thing.
Published: Monday, July 3rd, 2017 @ 6:41 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Say you want your Butler to buy some groceries; so you give him your credit card.
Published: Saturday, December 31st, 2016 @ 11:33 pm
By: Publius Huldah
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North Carolina's office of state controller reported a General Fund surplus of nearly $1 billion in its final report on the 2015-16 fiscal year
Published: Wednesday, December 28th, 2016 @ 4:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Does our existing Constitution permit the federal government to spend money on whatever they want?
Published: Friday, March 25th, 2016 @ 12:13 pm
By: Publius Huldah
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Last week, a new finding about ideological imbalance made headlines all over the country. According to Matt Woessner, an associate professor of political science and public policy at Penn State Harrisburg, liberal professors now outnumber their conservative counterparts by a ratio of roughly 5 to 1.
Published: Sunday, January 31st, 2016 @ 1:34 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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As the state continues to increase spending, many citizens have begun to suspect that the effectiveness of that spending is diminishing. North Carolina's balanced budget amendment was intended to create a fiscally responsible state that uses tax dollars wisely. However, over the last few decades...
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 1:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The states could put a stake through the heart of America's "fundamental problem" of unlimited borrowing capacity that has created nearly $18 trillion in national debt by adopting a balanced budget amendment
Published: Monday, December 29th, 2014 @ 11:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The United States could have a constitutional balanced budget amendment within a year, if enough states back a process spelled out by the group Compact for America.
Published: Thursday, December 18th, 2014 @ 7:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We hear a lot of folks pressing for a change in the Constitution to incorporate a "Balanced Budget Amendment". The argument is based on the belief that such an amendment would force the Congress to rein its profligate spending habits. It certainly sounds like a winner.
Published: Monday, July 28th, 2014 @ 1:52 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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