Voters in the May 6 Republican primary for state House District 15 will choose between incumbent Phil Shepard, a two-term legislator who is a minister and civil service retiree, and Jim Morton, a farmer and retired educator running primarily on parochial issues.
Published: Sunday, April 6th, 2014 @ 10:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Remember all the brouhaha from last fall's Washington showdown and government shutdown? The dispute purportedly pitted Republicans intent on repealing Obamacare against the president and Democrats intent on preserving the legislation.
Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 12:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the cheapest shots in politics is to claim that only the unschooled and ignorant could possibly side with the other team. Both Democrats and Republicans make the claim about the other party. Democrats ridicule Republican-leaning voters for being dumb rednecks and undereducated boobs...
Published: Friday, March 21st, 2014 @ 4:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It was about 2 years ago when we were hearing what a good chance Mitt Romney had of being our next President.
Published: Monday, March 17th, 2014 @ 2:14 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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The constitutionalist and libertarian sector should be there for social conservatives who want to practice their beliefs and do no more harm than hurting some lefties' feelings.
Published: Monday, March 3rd, 2014 @ 9:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In nearly three decades of writing a syndicated column on North Carolina politics and government, I've always received a steady stream of reader response. In the days before email, I'd get an occasional phone call or personal letter, but most of the response came in the form of letters to the...
Published: Saturday, October 26th, 2013 @ 4:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We read that the Mayor of San Diego was able to cut a deal whereby he would resign the office and the city will pick up the tab for any legal fees and financial judgments against him resulting from the numerous suits brought against him for sexual harassment.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 6:41 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Mitt Romney was absolutely right when he noted in a fundraiser that 47% of the people would never vote for him. These are the entitled who never heard what JFK asked Americans to do but care only about what the government can do for them.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 10:58 am
By: Alicia Colon
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It's been fun watching all of the sputtering and posturing about the strategy memo reportedly circulated by the leadership of a lefty group calling itself BluePrintNC.
Published: Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 @ 4:23 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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You would think we would have learned by now - but, alas, it doesn't seem so. Specifically, we have not learned to listen carefully to the Anointed One when he speaks and to carefully parse every word that he utters.
Published: Sunday, January 20th, 2013 @ 10:22 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Conservative pundits like Ann Coulter, Karl Rove, Michael Barron, Charles Krauthammer et al were fairly confident in their predictions that Romney would sweep to victory.
Published: Sunday, November 25th, 2012 @ 8:13 pm
By: Alicia Colon
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Barack Obama and the Democrats waged the most negative campaign in recent memory, Mitt Romney and the Republicans spent their campaign cash less efficiently than the Democrats did.
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 @ 8:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." H. L. Mencken
Published: Friday, November 9th, 2012 @ 11:22 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Furthermore, one can understand how Candidate Obama does appeal to those one issue neophytes, who, obviously, can only pay limited attention to everything else.
Published: Monday, November 5th, 2012 @ 9:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The GOP nominees for the top two posts we'll be voting for on November 6 can really vouch for the old theorem about "right place, right time."
Published: Thursday, November 1st, 2012 @ 9:00 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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As we near the end of this rancorous election there exists a rich irony in the presidential contest.
Published: Thursday, November 1st, 2012 @ 1:25 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The ninth Commandment says something like "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor".
Published: Thursday, October 25th, 2012 @ 6:40 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Once again, we got treated to a double-header of televised political brilliance.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 10:09 am
By: Brant Clifton
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This general election has been heralded as the most important election in 30 years. I surmise that this is the most important election in exactly 32 years.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 7:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Gerald Ford once quipped in the middle of a presidential debate, "It was my understanding that there would be no math."
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 5:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday evening, the second presidential debate of 2012 put President Barack Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney in a town hall-style forum moderated by CNN's Candy Crowley.
Published: Wednesday, October 17th, 2012 @ 4:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For purposes of this study, voters interviewed had to have voted in at least one of the past three general elections (2006, 2008, 2010) or be newly registered to vote since November 2, 2010. The poll had a margin of error of plus/minus 4.9 percent.
Published: Monday, October 15th, 2012 @ 11:40 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Most modern pollsters don't just ask likely voters which candidate they support and leave it at that. They also ask voters unsure about their preferences whether they "lean" to one or the other candidate.
Published: Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 @ 12:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last night, Mitt Romney showed John McCain how it SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE in 2008. The Mittster called Barry's bluff on a number of occasions -- correcting his misstatements and outright lies.
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2012 @ 3:06 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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After watching the Socialists scramble to manage the message of how the Narcissist-in-Chief got his intellectual butt kicked in the first debate, there is a common narrative evolving: "Mitt Romney lied so hard that their candidate could not keep up with them."
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2012 @ 12:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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We are still more than a month from Election Day, so I'm not ready to make predictions about state and federal races yet. For the sake of argument, however, let's imagine that the current polling leads for Barack Obama and Pat McCrory are predictive of the outcomes of their respective races.
Published: Thursday, October 4th, 2012 @ 3:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Mitt Romney embraced his first presidential debate, with vigor, and an enthusiastic optimism to project the truth, unfiltered and unencumbered, and thus intellectually bloodied Candidate Obama, and his office of new socialistic ideals for his odd vision of an Obama shaped America.
Published: Thursday, October 4th, 2012 @ 12:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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While increasing dependency on government is a very real problem, with both economic and political consequences, it cannot be measured effectively by annual income-tax statistics. Taxation is a process, not an event.
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2012 @ 12:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I've seen and heard WAY too much lately about Mitt Romney's tax returns. The Obama sycophants at the AP slobbered all over the Romney documents, pointing out -- from the Marxist, statist, class warfare perspective - how much the Mittster made and the percentage he paid. WHO CARES ??????
Published: Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 @ 11:26 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Well, Mitt Romney has finally released his 2011 tax return, all 379 pages of it. Yes, 379 pages!! And now we are going to start hearing about all the "bad" things he did and "good" things he didn't do in his return.
Published: Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 @ 4:10 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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I read Paul Ryan's 2012 "Path to Prosperity." (which was voted by the House). I read all 99 pages. I have summarized its key points in both a word document and in chart form.
Published: Monday, September 24th, 2012 @ 6:38 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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A good many polls are being conducted about who is ahead, and as to which candidate could possibly win the upcoming presidential election. Our Advice: Don't believe anything you see or hear.
Published: Thursday, September 20th, 2012 @ 12:10 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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