If we look back on our grade school education, we remember being taught the very fundamentals of what went on at the Constitutional Convention.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:40 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Happy Anniversary America !! This year, 2011, celebrates 218 years since the British signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783, formally abandoning any claims to the United States.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:35 am
By: Diane Rufino
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There are many people who overlook the brilliance of the US Constitution. They argue that it is outdated and unfit to adequately govern such a modern nation as ours in the 21st century.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:30 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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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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Every year on June 6, our nation pauses to remember the thousands of brave Americans and American allies who stormed the beaches of Normandy to launch the campaign to liberate Europe from the oppression and extermination by the Nazi regime in World War II.
Published: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 5:48 am
By: Diane Rufino
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In 1920, the American Legion adopted the red poppy as the symbol of remembrance of those who gave their lives in war.
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2024 @ 7:27 am
By: Diane Rufino
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From a Birmingham jail, where he was arrested for trying to help blacks exercise their right to vote, MLK wrote: "Remember, everything that Hitler did was legal."
Published: Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 9:36 am
By: Diane Rufino
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21 years ago, on September 10, 246 people went to sleep in preparation for their morning flights. 2,606 people went to sleep in preparation for work in the morning. 343 firefighters went to sleep in preparation for their morning shift.
Published: Monday, September 11th, 2023 @ 7:29 am
By: Diane Rufino
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This Memorial Day week-end, we remember the greater than 1,448,900 servicemen who fought and died in our wars and battles over the many years.
Published: Monday, May 29th, 2023 @ 12:48 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The Nativity scene, the symbol of Christmas, has become more of a commercial symbol than a religious system.That was the conclusion of the highest court of the land – back in 1984. It got me thinking of the holiday in general and what it really means. Have we succeeded in divorcing its true meaning?
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 12:35 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Government is best and most responsive to the individual when it is closest to them. We're talking about the local, the county, and even the state level.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: Diane Rufino
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It wants open borders - to allow the uncontrolled immigration and smuggling of drugs into our country to overwhelm our system and our services and to poison and kill our children.
Published: Saturday, October 8th, 2022 @ 3:59 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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I’m a long-time activist. I started a Tea Party group in 2009 in my area of North Carolina and have been running it ever since.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The problem right now is that education – public education, particularly - isn't solving some of the problems that we have right now – to truly educate our next generations, to instill a sense of patriotism and love of country, to prepare our children for college and for life in general.
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2022 @ 1:19 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The following is a letter I just wrote and sent to my US Senators (North Carolina), emphasizing that they need to vote AGAINST H.R. 8404 – the “Respect for Marriage Act,” sponsored by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY).
Published: Thursday, September 29th, 2022 @ 3:33 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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It is, as Ronald Reagan so eloquently put it in the campaign speech he delivered on October 27, 1964 in support of Republican presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater. That memorable speech has been titled
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 @ 6:43 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The following is an exchange I had with my US Senator, Thom Tillis regarding a piece of federal legislation – H.R. 8404 (“Respect for Marriage Act”)
Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 @ 3:27 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The first occurs during ages 2-7, with a second one occurring during adolescence. At the start of these periods, the number of connections (synapses) between brain cells (neurons) doubles.
Published: Tuesday, September 13th, 2022 @ 9:32 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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On this anniversary of 9/11, we look back and remember the horrific events of that day and the lives taken too soon.
Published: Sunday, September 11th, 2022 @ 2:19 am
By: Diane Rufino
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In remembrance of the day that will forever seer the concept of 'evil' in our minds, let's look back at that fateful morning, exactly 11 years ago today to that series of horrific events which unfolded before our unbelieving eyes......
Published: Sunday, September 11th, 2022 @ 1:04 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Make no mistake, abortion on-demand is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court’s result (referring to Roe v. Wade) has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 @ 12:55 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Mark Levin has called the most recent Supreme Court ruling on the meaning and intent of the Second Amendment “the most significant Second Amendment case since Heller and McDonald.” (landmark Second Amendment cases, 2008 and 2010, respectively). And I believe he is correct.
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2022 @ 8:16 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Hey Everyone, I have some very exciting news to share.
Published: Sunday, May 15th, 2022 @ 3:40 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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These are very troubling times. The federal government shows no allegiance to or understanding of the US Constitution and we, as a nation, are struggling with our political identity and our social identity.
Published: Friday, April 22nd, 2022 @ 1:19 am
By: Diane Rufino
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We cannot and must not forget that the brains of school-age children have not finished developing.
Published: Monday, April 11th, 2022 @ 8:52 am
By: Diane Rufino
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They say love can make you a little crazy. And the movie begins by showing how 2 people are living proof of that.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 11:15 am
By: Diane Rufino
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We often hear people talk about America's Christian heritage. Usually it is in the context of some government action or judicial decision which denies this heritage.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2022 @ 10:14 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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If you haven't seen Dinesh D'Souza's latest documentary - "HILLARY'S AMERICA: The Secret History of the Democratic Party" - you won't want to miss it!! D'Souza hits a home-run!!
Published: Sunday, March 6th, 2022 @ 9:22 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Nominal Republicans Frankie Waters and John Rebholz made an effective stand against Election Integrity, in concert with their fellow Democratic Socialist caucus members, to stop cold this resolution to limit Voter Fraud in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, March 6th, 2022 @ 8:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County citizens have a voice in this self-governing conundrum of these States United, and it must not be canceled, or held politically hostage by the false problems promoted by the Democratic Socialists, whose purpose is to destroy this Representative Republic.
Published: Saturday, February 26th, 2022 @ 12:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I have recently become active in my community and most particularly, I've gotten involved in keeping on eye on the administration of the public education system in my county.
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 3:33 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Diane rufino and I attended this Grassroots Get together held in Haw River, North Carolina February 5th.
Published: Monday, February 14th, 2022 @ 3:29 pm
By: Elizabeth Weidner
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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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