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More North Carolinians voted early and within fewer days than in any prior midterm election. This was the first general election held under a compacted 10-day one-stop early voting schedule.
Published: Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 @ 10:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The State Board of Elections today completed an audit of more than 10,000 registered voters with questionable citizenship status.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 2:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Friday, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) sent a letter to Speaker Boehner calling for a debate and a vote on an authorization to expand military force in Iraq and Syria when Congress reconvenes in November.
Published: Monday, September 29th, 2014 @ 3:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The State Board of Elections today announced there will be more early voting locations across North Carolina than in any prior off-year election.
Published: Thursday, September 25th, 2014 @ 11:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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September 23 is National Voter Registration Day, and the State Board of Elections has announced that its rolls grew by nearly 1.5 million over the last decade.
Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 @ 2:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The State Board of Elections will meet this Thursday at 1 p.m. The SBOE is meeting to appoint new county board of elections members.
Published: Wednesday, August 20th, 2014 @ 11:04 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The special filing period in three judicial races closed today at noon.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 6:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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East Carolina University will soon be researching new ways to maintain and rebuild North Carolina’s cherished coastline following damage from hurricanes and tropical storms.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 11:27 am
By: ECU News Services
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Alabama senator Jeff Sessions is putting in a yeoman's effort trying to derail the GOP cave-in on amnesty for illegal aliens.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 12:55 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Yes, state board member, Maja Kricker, really did rule at the State Board of Elections (SBOE) meeting today. Her opinion was the only opinion that counted when it came to the five member SBOE voting on one-stop variance requests made by county board of elections.
Published: Friday, August 1st, 2014 @ 3:16 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Ever wonder why so few elected officials question the actions of their party leaders or the actions of their respective chambers? Ever wonder why politicians spend SO MUCH time fundraising?
Published: Wednesday, June 4th, 2014 @ 11:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In a free society, the right to express one's political views without governmental restraint or reprisal ought to be sacrosanct. Unfortunately, it isn't. Some politicians and political activists seem to believe that, because of a sense of moral superiority, they have the right not just to express...
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 3:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With a quarter-million questionable voter registrations on the books in NC, it's no wonder the state elections board needs more investigators. That's also why sustaining and enforcing the state's recent voter reforms is more urgent than ever.
Published: Monday, May 26th, 2014 @ 3:34 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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First-term U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger faces a challenge from Michael Steinberg in the Republican primary for the 9th Congressional District.
Published: Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 @ 12:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Keynesianism is indeed a disease on the body politic in democratic society. An economic doctrine of technocratic arrogance, it ... gives scope to the opportunistic behavior of politicians who become unconstrained by Keynesianism in practice.
Published: Friday, April 25th, 2014 @ 4:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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American Hustle is not just lighting up the movie screens. It's playing out on Capitol Hill as well.
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2014 @ 11:40 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Seriously. That's how the BarryO fan club is defending their pet monster against accusations, and a CBO report, suggesting that it will kill jobs by the millions.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2014 @ 12:53 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Renee Ellmers has been proud of her ties to House leadership. She once slipped up - I think - in a conversation with me, referring to House Speaker John Boehner as her "boss."
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2014 @ 2:01 am
By: Brant Clifton
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I went back in the Google time machine and found some comments from GOP leaders shortly after the Tea Party put them back in charge of the US House of Representatives.
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2014 @ 10:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Republican Party is inarguably bent on proving it is inconsequential to real Conservatives, who actually believe in the tenets of the former Republican Party, and live by Conservative principles.
Published: Friday, January 17th, 2014 @ 1:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Much has been said and written about the election law reform legislation known as VIVA (Voter Identification Verification Act - HB 589) - but too many of the reports are misleading or just plain wrong.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 2:55 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Back in March of this year the Beaufort County Republican Party Executive Committee voted to recommend for appointment to the Board of Elections Dr Delma Blinson.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 4:08 am
By: Keith D Kidwell
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Tea Partiers and other grassroots limited government types have been disappointed time and again by the Republican leaders on Capitol Hill they elected and elevated in 2010 and 2012.
Published: Monday, January 13th, 2014 @ 9:50 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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To economic development officials, the pursuit of big game - plants, offices, and headquarters - bringing a lot of jobs is described as an "elephant hunt."
Published: Saturday, January 11th, 2014 @ 2:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina State Republican Board of Elections met this morning (12-20-13) at 9:00 a.m. and kicked off the meeting with a real "Boss Hog" attitude.
Published: Friday, January 10th, 2014 @ 8:16 am
By: Buzz Cayton
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Beaufort County has become quite the microcosm for the civil war between the GOP establishment and The Tea Party. We've written extensively about some of the controversies there previously on this site.
Published: Wednesday, January 8th, 2014 @ 12:14 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Technological change has made online coursework very competitive with the traditional means of teaching. Will it lead to dramatic change in college, or have only a minor impact? Consider the analogy to music.
Published: Sunday, January 5th, 2014 @ 6:31 am
By: John William Pope Center
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We're riding out 2013′s last gasps from The Haymaker's Watauga County outpost.
Published: Saturday, December 28th, 2013 @ 3:09 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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When I met Rob Coffman last month, he shook my hand and introduced himself as "the evil and incompetent Rob Coffman."
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 @ 3:19 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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We've got 535 voting members of Congress. Yet. this "bi-partisan", "disaster-averting" budget deal announced yesterday got hammered out in private talks between Senate Budget Committee chairman Patty Murray and House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2013 @ 11:04 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Leftists want you to believe that the results show America loves Barry Obama. The media wants you to believe The Tea Party was soundly rejected. What was the real takeaway from Tuesday?
Published: Friday, November 8th, 2013 @ 11:25 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Renee Ellmers is damaged goods. In her 2011 smooch-fest with The New York Times, she talked about the nation ‘coding.’ In 2013, it would appear that it’s her political career that’s in danger of flat-lining.
Published: Monday, October 21st, 2013 @ 11:37 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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