Never before in the last two decades, has this 5 term county commissioner, of some estimable intellect on these pertinent matters of the People's business, witnessed commissioners, and their appointed staff take a more flippant, patriarchal attitude toward the welfare of all of our county's citizens
Published: Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 @ 4:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Currently, state law mandates that school board elections be non-partisan contests, but there are exceptions to the rule. According to a guide (PDF) published by the N.C. State Board of Elections, 17 of the state's 115 school boards elect and/or appoint members by political party. They include...
Published: Wednesday, July 1st, 2015 @ 12:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This is the simple truth of any well functioning republic.
Published: Saturday, April 25th, 2015 @ 11:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina routinely routes tax dollars to private service providers - both directly, in the form of Medicaid reimbursements and college tuition grants, as well as indirectly, in the form of public assistance that recipients spend themselves on food, clothing, shelter, and other goods.
Published: Tuesday, April 14th, 2015 @ 5:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Is civic literacy a 21st-century skill? The answer is a resounding "yes" from lawmakers intent on combating widespread student ignorance about the form and function of American government.
Published: Thursday, February 19th, 2015 @ 4:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have been writing here for quite a few months in the hopes of broadening the scope of a most conservative e-magazine.
Published: Monday, January 26th, 2015 @ 5:21 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Nothing undercuts the enjoyment of watching football (Go Steelers!) on a Sunday afternoon more than tiresome political ads, particularly those pro-Kay Hagan ads that employ "political sleight of hand" to substantiate claims of funding cuts to public education in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, October 5th, 2014 @ 4:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The question of whether North Carolina education spending has increased or decreased is front and center in the race for U.S. Senate. Supporters of Democrat Kay Hagan's campaign have bombarded the airwaves with claims that Republican candidate Thom Tillis cut $500 million from the state education...
Published: Sunday, September 21st, 2014 @ 8:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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John Morrison, chief operating officer of Strata Solar in Chapel Hill, on Wednesday was lauding the brisk growth of sun-powered electricity in North Carolina in comments to the North Carolina Energy Policy Council. His company has built solar farm and solar array projects across North Carolina with
Published: Friday, September 19th, 2014 @ 2:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Here we go again. The conservatives (read Republicans) are taking a beating again.
Published: Saturday, July 19th, 2014 @ 3:19 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Talk about split personalities, undefined goals, and confusing the information. You may be surprised to know what the real motives are behind the players. What looks like a mermaid is really an octopus.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 10:08 am
By: Hood Richardson
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We are all familiar with famous huge errors in economics, such as those of Karl Marx, errors that ultimately create vast human suffering.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The U.S. Department of Education has collected data on teacher shortage areas since the early 1990s.
Published: Sunday, May 25th, 2014 @ 12:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although hostilities have been underway for some time, I hereby issue a formal Declaration of War against silly, uninformed talking points repeated endlessly in North Carolina politics.
Published: Sunday, May 18th, 2014 @ 1:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Three people showed up at the March Beaufort County Commissioners meeting to show us how brilliant they are. I once heard a man say "My mother always told my sibling to keep its mouth shut so people would not know how little she actually knew".
Published: Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 @ 6:10 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Could President Obama's signature program, the Affordable Care Act, be responsible for declining rates of growth in U.S. health care spending? That's what some Obamacare advocates are claiming. To do so, however, would require that they be either embarrassingly uninformed or shamelessly dishonest...
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 10:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If University of Chicago economist Bruce Meyer and Notre Dame economist James Sullivan are correct, much of the recent political chatter about the 50 anniversary of the War on Poverty was little more than uninformed nonsense.
Published: Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 @ 1:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's interesting. It seemed as though every time an AP writer mentioned the Anointed One going to Hawaii for his Christmas vacation, they told us that Hawaii is his home state or that he was born there or both. Could that seemingly singular focus possibly be fueled by doubts??
Published: Monday, December 30th, 2013 @ 2:33 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Student loan defaults continue to cause problems in this country. As recently as 2010, nearly 375,000 students defaulted within two years of beginning repayment. One idea put forward to address the issue involves assigning more responsibility for defaults to colleges and universities themselves...
Published: Sunday, December 8th, 2013 @ 2:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Seems some of our elected officials do not know about political manners or maybe plain common sense ethics.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2013 @ 11:53 am
By: Hood Richardson
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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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Mark Levin, who wrote an excellent book "The Liberty Amendments" to urge states to call for an Article V Convention to propose constitutional amendments to restore the federal government back to some sort of constitutional limits, calls Nullifiers "kooks."
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 @ 11:58 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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No, I'm not speculating about the president's strategies for implementing his health care law or besting Congressional Republicans in budget battles. Today's topic is closer to home: the decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to file a lawsuit alleging that North Carolina's new election law...
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2013 @ 12:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On July 28 the liberal and uninformed Washington Daily News did an article implying the Republican majority in the Legislature was doing things behind the public's back.
Published: Thursday, August 22nd, 2013 @ 12:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Folks who reach under the wrong pile of wood and feel the pain of a copperhead bite can relax just a little on their way to the emergency department.
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2013 @ 1:04 am
By: ECU News Services
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While I am hardly a political animal - don't really have the time for it - I have, over the years, been rather astute in recognizing the obvious, especially the dubious moves of politicians. I see this odd behavior often from Democrats, and sadly, I now see it from some Republicans as well.
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2013 @ 9:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Liberal groups in and outside the state seem to be spending sleepless nights worried about the fate of judicial-election changes North Carolina adopted in 2002.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2013 @ 12:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We're getting earth-shattering, heart-breaking, and sometimes infuriating details about the travesties that occurred at our embassy in Benghazi, Libya last year.
Published: Saturday, May 11th, 2013 @ 8:12 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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For a group of people who claim to believe in empirical study and higher learning, liberal politicians and other critics of North Carolina's new...
Published: Thursday, April 18th, 2013 @ 8:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I take this opportunity to express my thanks to all of the many people who have worked the last two years to help us promote the agenda of the Republican Party and to bring you up to date on some of the recent history of our County party.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 12:44 pm
By: Buzz Cayton
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Every year, we pay homage to those that make a marked difference, who pass on from this temporal plane.
Published: Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 @ 3:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In this article, I hope to convince grassroots conservatives to unite in the coming year to re-assert founding values and strengthen principles of Liberty and to reject the contorted view of the Constitution that President Barack Obama is pushing on the American people.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The world is full of imponderables. We have been treated over the last year or so to a seemingly unending diatribe about the need for the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes (whatever that is).
Published: Sunday, January 6th, 2013 @ 4:50 am
By: Jim Bispo
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