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The elites in government, media and academia are finally coming around to what we've known about ObamaCare for years now.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2013 @ 10:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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During the formation of the United States, male politicians, writers, and philosophers were at the forefront in establishing the government for the new country after the Revolutionary War.
Published: Sunday, November 10th, 2013 @ 6:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2011, President Obama called for a more civil discourse to “make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.”
Published: Sunday, October 20th, 2013 @ 11:50 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In 2011, President Obama called for a more civil discourse to "make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds." Unfortunately, Gene Nichol, Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor - and former dean - at UNC-Chapel Hill's law school, appears to have no...
Published: Friday, October 18th, 2013 @ 10:51 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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One recent Tuesday was Constitution Day - September 17. It marks the day that the Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 concluded and the final draft of Constitution was signed by the delegates who attended.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 9:28 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Patients in need of mental and physical health care will have an easier time getting both through a new partnership between East Carolina University social work and family medicine.
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 @ 3:36 am
By: ECU News Services
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Campbell University expects to play a lead role in the transformation of health care delivery in North Carolina, and to aid ailing rural communities by sending them health care professionals from its new School of Osteopathic Medicine, school officials said Thursday.
Published: Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 @ 5:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Talmadge B. Ballance, age 91, of Mt. Airy, Maryland, died Sunday, September 15, 2013 at Glade Valley Rehabilitation Center in Walkersville, MD.
Published: Tuesday, September 17th, 2013 @ 4:43 pm
By: Announcements
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Self-governing individuals are necessary to have a self-governing society. That is, only a moral and disciplined people are capable of being governed by a limited government.
Published: Sunday, April 14th, 2013 @ 10:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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March Madness is the moniker given the NCAA basketball tournament championship, but this year in North Carolina it is taking on new meaning. Seems like everyone is mad about something.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 2:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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James Madison is often referred to as the "Father of the Constitution." But Madison's ties to the U.S. Constitution go beyond the role he played at its birth. Jeff Broadwater, professor of history at Barton College, highlights...
Published: Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 @ 11:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although the term "useful idiots" was originally attributed to Vladimir Lenin, its origin is undetermined but it is very applicable to the naïve celebrities in Hollywood and the media now mourning the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Published: Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 @ 2:06 pm
By: Alicia Colon
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I am sure many of you have been keeping up with the whole BlueprintNC scandal -- a bunch of lefty non-profits scheming about "eviscerating" North Carolina Republican leaders.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2013 @ 10:59 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Mrs. Juanita Maddox Noltemeier, age 90, a longtime resident of Washington, NC, passed away peacefully with her daughter by her side on Monday, February 4, 2013 at Vidant Inpatient Hospice in Greenville.
Published: Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 @ 4:17 pm
By: Announcements
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On January 9, I spoke at the "Honor the Oath" Rally in Raleigh, NC, organized by the Carolina Liberty PAC and a former NC state legislator. That was the day that members of the NC General Assembly took their oath of office.
Published: Sunday, January 13th, 2013 @ 11:58 am
By: Diane Rufino
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December 15 was Bill of Rights Day. It marks the 221st anniversary of the day when the first ten amendments - our Bill of Rights - were ratified in 1791.
Published: Monday, December 31st, 2012 @ 10:47 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The Louisiana monks who faced time in the slammer for selling handmade wooden caskets to support themselves have won a victory in federal court against the protectionist Louisiana State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors.
Published: Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 @ 4:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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The US republic is unique. Government can pass no law or take no action unless the authority for such law or action is specifically granted in the Constitution.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 @ 12:51 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The NC Institute for Constitutional Law (NCICL) recently published an article about nullification, asserting that it not a legitimate constitutional remedy.
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 @ 4:41 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Madge Jordan Ross, age 83, of St. Clair's Creek, Bath, passed away peacefully on Saturday, September 1, 2012, at Vidant Medical Center in Washington, after a brief illness.
Published: Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 @ 12:29 am
By: Announcements
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Lumberton officials are using an unprecedented taxation defense in an Internet sweepstakes lawsuit before the state Supreme Court that features constitutional separation of powers issues and arcane legal protections dating from the Great Depression.
Published: Tuesday, August 7th, 2012 @ 11:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sometimes it is difficult to understand things the Prez says. Take, for instance, his comments to the effect that people who have "succeeded" have not done so by themselves.
Published: Sunday, August 5th, 2012 @ 2:05 am
By: Jim Bispo
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In this overstimulated and under-worked society that now passes as Americana, it is still okay to love your country.
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 @ 7:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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When the ancient Roman author Vegetius wrote that those who desire peace should prepare for war, he was offering a timeless insight about the risks of presenting a weak front to an aggressive opponent. If only James Madison had taken the insight to heart.
Published: Monday, June 11th, 2012 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Our Founders made sure they provided for the proper avenues to counter a government that evinces such a design and even provided for the right to abolish that government.
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2012 @ 10:08 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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North Carolina is the latest state to face a possible erosion of traditional marriage. The question will be: How will the people react? Marriage is a solid bedrock foundation of communities - the source of modeling, morality, and values.
Published: Monday, April 23rd, 2012 @ 5:55 am
By: Diane Rufino
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"One day, I walked into an operating room, to just be an observant, which we would do generally, as a medical resident. It was the 1960's and abortion was still legal.
Published: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 @ 10:18 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Madge Futch Norwood, 85, formerly of Washington, N.C., died on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. Madge was born in Rocky Point, N.C., to David and Roxie Southerland Futch on Dec. 26, 1926.
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2012 @ 9:05 am
By: Announcements
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Madge Lane VanHorne, 89, a resident of Columbia, died Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011, at her residence.
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 @ 4:34 pm
By: Announcements
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We don't need the Supreme Court to tell us its interpretation of the Constitution. We have the very words and writings of the very men who drafted our Constitution and created our government.
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 @ 1:57 am
By: Diane Rufino
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QUESTION: Is it true that both California and Texas have such a right in the agreements they signed to join the Union?
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2011 @ 6:55 am
By: Diane Rufino
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On July 1, 2011, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit arrested Chad Douglas Woolard, 42 years of age, of 3723 Harvey Road in Washington and Donald Clayton Madry, 53 years of age, of 3723 Harvey Road in Washington.
Published: Sunday, July 10th, 2011 @ 2:22 pm
By: Announcements
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