Voters in Wisconsin head to the polls on Tuesday to decide the balance of the state Supreme Court in one of the most expensive court races in history.
Published: Thursday, April 27th, 2023 @ 6:35 am
By: Daily Wire
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Stocks slid after officials at the Federal Reserve announced a 0.25% increase in the target federal funds rate on Wednesday, continuing a slowdown from previous rate hikes meant to combat inflation and marking caution from policymakers given recent tumult in the banking sector.
Published: Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 @ 4:44 am
By: Daily Wire
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The federal government’s budget is in such disarray that balancing the books would require a 30% spending cut or a 40% increase in taxes, a recent study found.
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2023 @ 11:57 am
By: Daily Wire
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John Kane, Jr., son of successful Raleigh land developer John Kane, told Carolina Journal that he was hired Aug. 12 as a Wake County poll assistant and then dropped for vague reasons on Sept. 12.
Published: Sunday, November 13th, 2022 @ 1:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Everyone in North Carolina is familiar with the executive orders Gov. Roy Cooper has been issuing to address the coronavirus outbreak.
Published: Sunday, May 24th, 2020 @ 3:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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 new deal will be the most modern, up-to-date, and balanced trade agreement in the history of our country, with the most advanced protections for workers ever developed.
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 @ 8:34 am
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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Here is a starting point for your consideration on my previous post of statements which provided no answers.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 9:07 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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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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Senate Approves Final Budget that Invests Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Public Education, Provides Major Tax Relief
Published: Thursday, September 17th, 2015 @ 3:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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NC may become the 5th state to call for a convention of states to draft a constitutional "balanced budget" amendment
Published: Sunday, August 30th, 2015 @ 4:38 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The "Balanced Budget Amendment" movement (Article V Convention) is an insidious plot to impose a new national tax!!
Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 @ 5:45 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The movement behind a Balanced Budget Amendment will officially transform our government of specific taxing powers to one of broad powers
Published: Tuesday, August 4th, 2015 @ 4:26 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Charter schools increase segregation - that's the flawed conclusion of a recent National Bureau of Economic Research report by three Duke University Professors: Helen Ladd, Charles Clotfelter and John Holbein.
Published: Monday, May 4th, 2015 @ 1:01 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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During the 1970s and 1980s, America saw a growing federal deficit that caused states to react. North Carolina rewrote its constitution in 1971, and as part of that constitution the state is required to pass a 'balanced budget.' More specifically, the state's total expenditures cannot exceed its...
Published: Friday, January 30th, 2015 @ 8:28 am
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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