It certainly took little political courage and forethought to shut it down.
Published: Saturday, April 25th, 2020 @ 4:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The conservative club met Thursday evening at the King Chicken restaurant with a lively group of activist participants.
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2019 @ 8:24 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deserves a big "Thank you." In calling for top marginal tax rates of 70 percent, the freshman U.S. representative from New York is attracting attention to often-neglected issues linked to federal tax policy.
Published: Monday, February 4th, 2019 @ 9:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to impose term limits on members of Congress.
Published: Thursday, January 24th, 2019 @ 6:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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What a big week in news, and what a bad week for the core Democrat Resistance Movement, and their representatives in the Democrat Caucuses and in "hallowed halls" of the Fake News.
Published: Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 @ 10:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The best and the worst of Americans are revealed in the aftermath of the horrendous sutherland Springs massacre.
Published: Friday, November 10th, 2017 @ 9:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Fake News has lost it, but is, nonetheless, unbowed, and more than ready to defend their unprincipled behavior.
Published: Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 @ 10:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The inarticulate, bombastic and often politically incorrect President-elect Trump is slowly on growing me.
Published: Friday, February 10th, 2017 @ 11:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor McCrory released the following video message regarding the latest statements on legislation that protects the privacy of North Carolina citizens.
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2016 @ 4:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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During the 1787-89 debates over ratifying the U.S. Constitution, for example, North Carolina's population was divided over the necessity of a new constitution and what became known as the Bill of Rights.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 12:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Diane Rufino did a rewrite of this resolution for the Pitt County Commissioners that had already passed muster with the Brunswick County Commissioners. I made a few changes to reflect Beaufort County's concerns.
Published: Monday, July 28th, 2014 @ 10:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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We've got some pretty big races for US House and US Senate on the November ballot here in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, March 25th, 2014 @ 11:24 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The United States Constitution, in Article V, allows for such remedy to bring the Federal government more into compliance of the vision of our Founding Fathers, relative to innate needs of citizenry.
Published: Monday, February 24th, 2014 @ 11:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina will be challenged to support a convention of states to amend the U.S. constitution. You need to understand both side of this issue.
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2014 @ 11:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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When the original 13 states came together to discuss the possibility of establishing a confederacy, at the urging of Benjamin Franklin ("Join or Die"), they did so with a great deal of hope, but also a great deal of trepidation.
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2014 @ 6:16 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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"When guns are outlawed," the adage goes, "only outlaws will have guns."
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2014 @ 1:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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I am writing to reassure you that there is no connection whatsoever between the Civitas Institute and a newspaper chain that reportedly was planning to create a nationwide database of people with legal permits to carry concealed firearms.
Published: Sunday, January 26th, 2014 @ 6:19 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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At Modesto Junior College on September 17, 2013, an ordinary thing happened on what, by all accounts, is an ordinary college campus. A student, Robert Van Tuinen, was told to stop handing out literature on campus in violation of campus rules.
Published: Thursday, November 28th, 2013 @ 12:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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North Carolina history enthusiasts are aware that President George Washington nominated James Iredell Sr. (namesake of Iredell County) as one of the first justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. Far fewer are aware that another Washington appointee to the high court called North Carolina home, albeit...
Published: Tuesday, August 27th, 2013 @ 10:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This amendment likely violates individual due process and equal protection guarantees, in addition to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 @ 1:07 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The latest Civitas Poll shows more North Carolina voters voting against than supporting a proposed state constitutional amendment to repeal the requirement that voters must be able to read and write a section of the U.S. Constitution.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2013 @ 3:52 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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One of the inalienable rights of citizenship in this nation is the First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and to petition for a governmental redress of grievances.
Published: Saturday, June 1st, 2013 @ 1:57 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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A clear majority of the Founding Fathers unquestionably believed in a universal right to bear arms.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 5:19 pm
By: Harry Meredith, Jr.
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Self-governing individuals are necessary to have a self-governing society. That is, only a moral and disciplined people are capable of being governed by a limited government.
Published: Sunday, April 14th, 2013 @ 10:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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For those who may not recall, the United decision reversed previous laws that banned independent political expenditures by corporations (including non-profits and unions)
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2013 @ 2:58 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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On January 16, 2013, President Obama signed 23 Executive Orders which he claimed are aimed at reducing gun violence.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2013 @ 12:07 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The hottest trend these days among mainstream media-types is to publish names and addresses of people who have concealed-carry permits. WRAL and a newspaper in NY tried it -- and got burned.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 @ 11:11 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The Beaufort Patriot Tea Party is hosting Tom Rhyne a Director with Grass Roots North Carolina to explain how we can help protect your Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Published: Tuesday, February 19th, 2013 @ 9:59 pm
By: Buzz Cayton
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The meaning of the Second Amendment is being debated once again. Other than in general terms, few discuss the amendment's origins, the reasons for its inclusion...
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2013 @ 2:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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