"My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died; Land of the Pilgrims' pride, from ev'ry mountainside, Let freedom ring!"
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:36 am
By: Diane Rufino
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What does Independence Day - the 4th of July - mean to you?
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:26 am
By: Diane Rufino
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We all recognize the 4th of July as Independence Day - as the day we declared our independence from England. We celebrate the Declaration of Independence has since become our nation's most cherished symbol of liberty.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:10 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Perhaps what Independence Day is all about is to reflect on our history and to rekindle our revolutionary spirit every year... our great love of liberty.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton never called it a Revolution. They referred to the war with England as “The Cause,” according to Pulitzer Prize winning author Joseph Ellis.
Published: Tuesday, August 15th, 2023 @ 11:04 am
By: Tom Campbell
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A New Jersey elementary school has changed its name following a reported student-led campaign to scrap Thomas Jefferson due to his affiliation with slavery.
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2022 @ 12:46 pm
By: Daily Wire
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George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Joe Biden: Which president is not like the others? Not a joke, as the latter might say.
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 11:56 am
By: Daily Wire
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“Nullification” is the doctrine, articulated best by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (our two greatest Founding Fathers) which essentially holds that that the federal government is a creature of the states
Published: Friday, February 18th, 2022 @ 6:12 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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America's version of Mao's Cultural Revolution
Published: Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021 @ 7:42 pm
By: John Steed
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statue of 3rd president has been in council chamber 188 years
Published: Wednesday, October 20th, 2021 @ 7:58 pm
By: John Steed
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Our country is, no doubt, in a horrible mess - an embarrassment to the world and on the verge of destroying the very goodness, principles, and freedom that we had been founded on.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2021 @ 11:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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My professor at law school, Judge Andrew Napolitano, FOX News Senior Legal Analyst, wrote an excellent article on Red Flag Laws.
Published: Thursday, October 17th, 2019 @ 12:06 am
By: Diane Rufino
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On July 2, the Chancellorsville (Virginia) City Council voted to no longer recognize Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13, as a celebrated a paid holiday. Chancellorsville is the hometown of our country's most renown Founding Father.
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2019 @ 12:33 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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December 15 marks a very special day in our founding history - On that date in 1791, the first 14 states (Vermont had just been admitted to the Union as the 14th state), ratified the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, known collectively as our Bill of Rights.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 3:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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In 1791, Thomas Jefferson wrote an opinion on the constitutionality of a National Bank. It is an important commentary on the meaning and intent of the US Constitution, in particular the two general clauses - the General Welfare Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause.
Published: Wednesday, September 19th, 2018 @ 7:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mental midgets need to stop demoniziing Thomas Jefferson and demeaning his legacy because of the fact that he owned slaves.
Published: Friday, March 9th, 2018 @ 6:25 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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500 years ago this week, a young priest, disgusted with the leadership of his faith selling indulgences - tickets to heaven, if you will - nailed 95 Theses or protests onto the door of a church on All Hallows Eve
Published: Thursday, November 2nd, 2017 @ 9:06 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Thomas Jefferson articulated the absolute right of a state to secede from the Union. He did so in 1798, in 1799, in 1816, and up until his death in 1826 (July 4, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence).
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2017 @ 3:24 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The Obama administration and its fronts in the Senate accomplished what Richard Nixon wasn't able to accomplish, which was the suppression of an entire movement against him.
Published: Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 @ 2:10 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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What would Thomas Jefferson and John Adams think about the 2016 elections? We had a marvelous opportunity to get insights into their views at a mock debate between two scholars portraying them this week at the NC Museum of History.
Published: Friday, October 28th, 2016 @ 10:03 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Conservatives just helped oust a speaker who was okay with the Wall Street bailout, debt ceiling increases, and amnesty for illegals.
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 4:14 am
By: Brant Clifton
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"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2015 @ 5:56 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Thomas Jefferson wondered how the country would respond in the case its government passed a law that was clearly unconstitutional.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2015 @ 5:11 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The term “Founding Fathers” of the United States includes many great and courageous and wisely forward-thinking men.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 3:59 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Fiscal conservatives tend to look askance at large issuances of public debt. In this sentiment, they are in good company. "I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse," wrote James Madison, "and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other." His mentor and friend...
Published: Friday, September 26th, 2014 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One recent Tuesday was Constitution Day - September 17. It marks the day that the Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 concluded and the final draft of Constitution was signed by the delegates who attended.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 9:28 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Nullification is the theory that says that actions of the federal government that are passed, imposed, or exercised in excess or abuse of the express authority granted in the Constitution are not enforceable.
Published: Sunday, July 28th, 2013 @ 8:52 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Although the federal income tax system was designed and intended to make up for revenue losses due to tariff reform, it quickly became a primary means to fund the programs of our bloated federal government.
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 @ 10:29 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Legislators can take one of the most effective steps toward fighting overregulation in North Carolina by setting expiration dates for state rules. Support for end dates -- or sunsetting -- is one of the key findings in a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
Published: Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 @ 11:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, America's 3rd president and chief author of our Declaration of Independence once remarked, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure."
Published: Friday, January 18th, 2013 @ 1:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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December 15 was Bill of Rights Day. It marks the 221st anniversary of the day when the first ten amendments - our Bill of Rights - were ratified in 1791.
Published: Monday, December 31st, 2012 @ 10:47 am
By: Diane Rufino
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When a curious woman approached Benjamin Franklin as he was leaving the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787 and asked him what kind of government the delegates had given the people, he replied: "...A Republic, Ma'am, if you can keep it."
Published: Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 @ 10:05 am
By: Diane Rufino
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