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"You get what you pay for" goes one popular old adage. And in North Carolina, it appears that we had for some time been paying to secure one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation. But lo and behold, when you stop paying people not to work, more people actually go back to work.
Published: Saturday, January 18th, 2014 @ 3:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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When I first heard about what happened Monday night in Rocky Mount, I couldn't believe it. A reader from the Rocky Mount area tipped me off to an incident at that night's city council meeting. He directed me to this video, which details it in all its, um, glory.
Published: Saturday, January 18th, 2014 @ 12:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The head of the state's NAACP said the civil rights organization is broadening its lawsuit against North Carolina's new voter ID law and election law changes.
Published: Monday, January 13th, 2014 @ 9:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Boy, how things change. One of the missions of the NAACP's founders was to protect the integrity of elections and people's right to vote.
Published: Saturday, January 4th, 2014 @ 1:47 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The following statement was released after a NAACP protest at the state capitol calling for Governor Pat McCrory to convene a special session on Medicaid and unemployment benefits.
Published: Friday, December 27th, 2013 @ 6:58 am
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: Friday, November 22nd, 2013 @ 4:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The state is asking a federal court to dismiss two lawsuits - one filed by the North Carolina NAACP and one filed by the League of Women Voters of N.C. - challenging the new law requiring voters to present government-issued identification when voting and changing other...
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 @ 1:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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They filed a lawsuit against Governor McCrory for signing common sense election reforms into law, and now have they want to pull the Civitas Institute into their lawsuit like some kind of co-conspirator.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 1:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Eric Holder says it; Colin Powell says it: every NAACP "preacher" in the country says it: every Dem in the countryside says it.
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 @ 6:55 am
By: Jim Bispo
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As to why the NAACP and the League of Women Voters have filed separate complaints against the North Carolina Governor and the State Board of Elections due to HB 589 being signed into law on Monday, August 12, 2013, it could be that North Carolina is a political "battle ground" state.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 2:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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McClatchy-Raleigh breathlessly reported on the addition of "youth speakers" to Bill Barber's weekly freak show on the Halifax Mall.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2013 @ 1:53 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Liberal protesters at the General Assembly have been claiming they are acting in the name of morality, but a new Civitas study shows the role played by money – more than $100 million in state funds.
Published: Monday, July 8th, 2013 @ 10:06 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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While the Rev. William Barber, head of the NCNAACP, likes to call opponents extremists and rant about the immorality of legislative actions, he never mentions one important detail concerning his personal interest.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013 @ 5:51 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The useful idiots at McClatchy and WRAL are breaking their necks to paint Bill Barber's lefty fruitcake convention at the legislative building as the moral equivalent of Rosa Parks, James Meredith and MLK crusading for civil rights in the 1960s.
Published: Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 @ 12:59 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Stephen Laroque has really taken us on a roller coaster ride during his time in Raleigh.
Published: Saturday, June 8th, 2013 @ 8:46 am
By: Brant Clifton
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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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The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP is spearheading a weekly series of protests called "Moral Mondays" directed against Republican-supported legislation...
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2013 @ 8:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Attention Tea Partiers: McClatchy's crayon corps says the aging former hippies, now suckling at the government teat from their tenured university positions, screaming and hollering - and getting arrested - at the legislative building are JUST LIKE YOU.
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2013 @ 12:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Members of the House Elections Committee Wednesday received two starkly different versions of the effects of having a voter ID law.
Published: Friday, April 12th, 2013 @ 9:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It seems like WRAL has film of NAACP president William Barber every day. They give him face time if he's standing on the street BY HIMSELF.
Published: Sunday, April 7th, 2013 @ 4:38 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The establishment and the MSM have worked hard to slander and defame Tea Partiers in the eyes of their low-information audiences. The Washington Post -- yep, THEM -- suggests that the GOP needs to treat The Tea Party like Slick Willie Clinton treated that skank Sista Souljah back in 1992.
Published: Monday, March 4th, 2013 @ 5:45 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The President of the Civitas Institute today called on attorney Al McSurely to retract a lie about Civitas he told at a press conference today.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 9:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The "rules" of political correctness suggest that white folks are to merely sit back and TAKE whatever nonsense scam artists like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and NC's very own William "Jabba The Hutt" Barber dish out.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 5:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Watch out!! Here comes the UN. After "observing" our election, perhaps they will be able to report how many folks were deprived of their right to vote for lack of a photo ID.
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2012 @ 10:45 am
By: Jim Bispo
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On July 24, in the county seat of Greenville, NC, the Pitt County Board of Elections gave the green light to a revised plan for early voting which will include two Sundays.
Published: Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 @ 1:41 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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This morning at the Pitt County Board of Elections, "Organizing for America" (ACORN) succeeded in pushing its brand of "community organizing" in Pitt County for this November's election by convincing the board to approve Sunday voting.
Published: Thursday, July 26th, 2012 @ 4:56 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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An organization founded by ex-Sen. John Edwards was meant to fight poverty, but many clues suggest it instead focuses more on fighting partisan battles- and to avoid scrutiny by North Carolina taxpayers.
Published: Tuesday, July 10th, 2012 @ 12:17 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The State Board of Education approved creation of nine charter schools Thursday despite opposition to some of the schools from the NAACP, some elected leaders, and backers of traditional public schools.
Published: Sunday, March 4th, 2012 @ 8:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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