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If we look back on our grade school education, we remember being taught the very fundamentals of what went on at the Constitutional Convention.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:40 am
By: Diane Rufino
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"My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died; Land of the Pilgrims' pride, from ev'ry mountainside, Let freedom ring!"
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:36 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Happy Anniversary America !! This year, 2011, celebrates 218 years since the British signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783, formally abandoning any claims to the United States.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:35 am
By: Diane Rufino
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What does Independence Day - the 4th of July - mean to you?
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:26 am
By: Diane Rufino
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We all recognize the 4th of July as Independence Day - as the day we declared our independence from England. We celebrate the Declaration of Independence has since become our nation's most cherished symbol of liberty.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:10 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Perhaps what Independence Day is all about is to reflect on our history and to rekindle our revolutionary spirit every year... our great love of liberty.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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“First in Freedom,” our state license plates proclaim. Is this claim true?
Published: Tuesday, February 27th, 2024 @ 5:28 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Stay free
Published: Tuesday, July 4th, 2023 @ 8:57 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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A California school district voted this week to ban Critical Race Theory from being taught in its schools.
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 12:09 pm
By: Daily Wire
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I’m a long-time activist. I started a Tea Party group in 2009 in my area of North Carolina and have been running it ever since.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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It is, as Ronald Reagan so eloquently put it in the campaign speech he delivered on October 27, 1964 in support of Republican presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater. That memorable speech has been titled
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 @ 6:43 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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When I talk to folks about the Constitution, I usually comment that “the Constitution holds all the answers to the problems that are plaguing us as a country,” and as a republic.
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2022 @ 12:03 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Jesus’ sixth letter to the churches
Published: Saturday, September 10th, 2022 @ 10:29 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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The Constitution established the United States as a democratic republic. It is democratic because the people govern themselves, and it is a republic because the government’s power is derived from its people.
Published: Saturday, February 19th, 2022 @ 8:21 am
By: Diane Rufino
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John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia, might be America’s most interesting personality, and is surely one of its wisest and noblest characters.
Published: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 @ 11:42 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Voter Identification Assurances & Election Reforms
Published: Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 @ 10:25 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Is it a Tool to Divide Us?
Published: Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 @ 5:05 pm
By: John Woodard
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A Proposed State Sovereignty Resolution (“A Re-Declaration of Independence”) for North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, April 27th, 2021 @ 6:17 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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This article is dedicated to our great Founding Fathers - men who had the courage, the foresight, and the wisdom to secure the freedom that I exercise and enjoy every single day. - Diane Rufino
Published: Saturday, April 24th, 2021 @ 9:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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This article is dedicated to our great Founding Fathers - men who had the courage, the foresight, and the wisdom to secure the freedom that I exercise and enjoy every single day. - Diane Rufino
Published: Sunday, February 21st, 2021 @ 7:59 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Our country is, no doubt, in a horrible mess - an embarrassment to the world and on the verge of destroying the very goodness, principles, and freedom that we had been founded on.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2021 @ 11:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The case District of Columbia v. Heller is the landmark Supreme Court case decided in 2008, and written by the late great conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, which finally looked at the roots and origins of the Second Amendment.
Published: Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 @ 11:49 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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When we commemorate the birthday of the United States of America, we don’t just celebrate a place, a set of governmental institutions, and a shared history that binds together people with differing backgrounds, faiths, and aspirations. We celebrate a revolutionary act.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 12:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I have devoted most of my life to building, inhabiting, and sometimes leading organizations devoted to advancing the cause of freedom. But what I mean by that term may be quite different from what you mean.
Published: Saturday, June 15th, 2019 @ 2:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Commonly known as the "anti-monopoly clause," this provision has been part of North Carolina's constitutional endowment from the very beginning
Published: Tuesday, February 19th, 2019 @ 5:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Four days ago, a date came and went without much mention. Yet it was so significant.
Published: Thursday, January 3rd, 2019 @ 6:55 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The great British statesman and writer Edmund Burke was a critic of his government's treatment of the American colonies in the years preceding the Revolutionary War
Published: Monday, November 26th, 2018 @ 6:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last month, I wrote about Session Law 2018-69: An Act to Assist the Criminal Law Recodification Working Group, which had just been unanimously approved by both houses of the North Carolina General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Cooper.
Published: Wednesday, September 12th, 2018 @ 8:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Four towns in Mecklenburg County can open and run their own charter schools apart from the local board of education
Published: Monday, June 18th, 2018 @ 10:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This article discusses the English roots of our American liberty.
Published: Tuesday, February 13th, 2018 @ 12:44 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the Earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them.
Published: Sunday, February 4th, 2018 @ 11:34 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Most of us celebrate New Year's somehow, someway, but I suspect few of us are aware of the holiday's history. As you would expect, a wealth of information is but a few clicks away.
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2018 @ 4:24 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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This article is to remind folks of the loss of freedom we suffered at the hands of President Obama and his administration with the unconstitutional and universal healthcare scheme he misrepresented and then forced on the American people.
Published: Monday, March 13th, 2017 @ 10:43 am
By: Diane Rufino
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