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Bureaucratism is fundamentally anti-democratic and illiberal. Unelected bureaucrats, rather than elected legislator make decisions that greatly impact their fellow citizens.
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 12:57 am
By: John W. LaCava
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There comes a time in every child's life when they begin to assert their autonomy and freedom from the shackles of their upbringing: classic teenage rebellion!
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 10:33 am
By: Babylon Bee
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As Democrats cater to the increasingly radical demands of progressive, upscale voters, Republicans are gaining momentum with working-class people heading into the midterms, according to a new survey.
Published: Saturday, July 23rd, 2022 @ 2:53 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The elitist progressives can’t hide their disdain for the working people of North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, July 23rd, 2022 @ 8:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A progressive organization that backed President Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election announced Monday the “# Don’tRunJoe” national campaign, which opposes his renomination in 2024.
Published: Thursday, July 21st, 2022 @ 6:48 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Progressive leftists want to convince you of the difference between human rights and property rights
Published: Sunday, July 10th, 2022 @ 2:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Men across the country are finally able to get some work done at the office this week, as their progressive female co-workers are out protesting for abortion rights.
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 @ 7:27 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Dirty elections
Published: Sunday, July 3rd, 2022 @ 6:55 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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A local progressive Christian confessed Monday that he was nervous about dying because he wasn't sure if St. Peter would call him by his preferred pronouns when his name is read at the final judgment.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 7:00 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Local progressive Juniper Clouts has once again become outraged this week, this time causing her to go searching for her old signs that express her anger about the current thing.
Published: Friday, May 13th, 2022 @ 8:39 am
By: Babylon Bee
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Progressive Christian couples across the nation are saving themselves for marriage by waiting until their wedding night to remove each other’s masks.
Published: Monday, May 2nd, 2022 @ 9:56 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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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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North Carolina’s state constitution, in Article IX, section 1 (“Education Encouraged”), reads: “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools, libraries, and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”
Published: Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 10:24 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Pity progressives. In 2018, a progressive wave swept into Congress led by the so-called Squad. They have never known what it is like to be in the minority. They are surrounded by a young, left-leaning press and celebrity bubble that tells them they are not only right, but in the majority.
Published: Saturday, November 6th, 2021 @ 8:14 pm
By: Daily Wire
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File this one under: You're not going to believe it, but it's true
Published: Friday, April 9th, 2021 @ 8:51 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Bob Woodson writes at FoxNews.com about the destructive nature of today’s progressive ideology.
Published: Sunday, March 28th, 2021 @ 2:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Joe Schoffstall of the Washington Free Beacon reports on a national group that’s dedicating time and money to help elect Democrats in Southern states.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2020 @ 1:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Editors at the Washington Examiner highlight the potential impact for the middle class of proposals progressives are touting on the campaign trail.
Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2020 @ 10:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The News & Observer’s Ned Barnett recently wrote an editorial in which he stated that North Carolina may soon be in for a sudden lurch to the left like the one Virginia is currently experiencing.
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2020 @ 5:58 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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If you think very rich people pay a lower share of their income in taxes than you do, you are very likely to vote for Democrats and to support a range of government interventions in the economy.
Published: Wednesday, October 16th, 2019 @ 7:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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About this time last year, progressive activists and Democratic politicians were trumpeting the news that North Carolina was 49th in the country in friendliness to teachers, according to a study by the website WalletHub.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2019 @ 4:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Candidates are lining up to run in 2020 and we've heard those running on a more liberal or "progressive" platform, as well as those espousing a more conservative agenda.
Published: Monday, February 4th, 2019 @ 8:27 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The NC Justice Center is the preeminent progressive think tank in North Carolina. The organization describes itself as a "progressive research and advocacy organization."
Published: Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 @ 4:31 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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On Wednesday, Yascha Mounk, lecturer on government at Harvard University, wrote a fascinating piece for The Atlantic regarding a new study from Stephen Hawkins, Daniel Yudkin, Miriam Juan-Torres and Tim Dixon, titled Hidden Tribes: A Study of America's Polarized Landscape.
Published: Saturday, October 20th, 2018 @ 6:34 pm
By: Daily Wire
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State Rep. William Brisson, D-Bladen, said he is switching to the Republican Party because Democrats have become too progressive
Published: Friday, October 27th, 2017 @ 5:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democrats, progressive activists, and left-leaning editorialists haven't liked past ideas from Republicans to change the way North Carolina's elections are run
Published: Tuesday, October 10th, 2017 @ 1:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ever since North Carolina enacted a major tax reform package in 2013, left-of-center politicians and pundits have lamented the disappearance of a progressive income tax
Published: Tuesday, September 19th, 2017 @ 10:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The obstructionists and obstructionists must stop and for the good of the country, they need to give President Trump a chance to make government accountable and workable again.
Published: Saturday, April 29th, 2017 @ 2:18 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Government requires money to do its work. Anarchists disagree. But for the vast majority of us, the real debates involve, first, how much money government needs and, second, how government ought to collect that money
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 11:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political progressives aren't the only ones who see value in adding more "progressivity" to the state's personal income tax. A Republican-sponsored bill that won unanimous support last week in the N.C. Senate would accomplish that goal
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2016 @ 7:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you have not noticed the facism of the left during the last seven years in government, just pay attention to the current condition on college campuses
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 4:26 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Progressive critics of North Carolina's historic 2013 tax reforms are quick to seize on topline unemployment rate figures in an attempt to discredit the rate cuts. But a closer look shows that in fact our state has enjoyed stellar job growth since taxes were cut.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Ever since the movie "Wall Street" hit the big screen in 1987, left-of-center pundits and partisans have tried to tie conservatives and Republicans to that movie's villain, Gordon Gekko. His motto was "Greed is good." Twenty-eight years later, Ed Morrissey argues that Gekko's most famous saying...
Published: Monday, October 5th, 2015 @ 5:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican state senators want to make North Carolina's income tax system more progressive.
Published: Thursday, June 25th, 2015 @ 6:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Big government "progressives" love telling other people what to do (and spending other people's money). It's all about control, as a central tenant of progressivism is a strong central state controlling what should be free, voluntary associations between citizens.
Published: Wednesday, June 10th, 2015 @ 7:51 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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