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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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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Jefferson Davis' worse fears came true. The big government of Abraham Lincoln, the greatest tyrant our country has ever known, has co-opted and crafted the "great lie" of why our country fought the Civil War.
Published: Thursday, June 9th, 2016 @ 12:13 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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North Carolina lawmakers pushed back against Common Core education standards by passing legislation to require the teaching of cursive handwriting in elementary schools
Published: Friday, April 1st, 2016 @ 11:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, April 30th, 2015 @ 9:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Original documents should play an important role in American history education. That's the approach from Roger Beckett, executive director of the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. Beckett explained his preference for original historical documents over textbooks during a recent presentation...
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2015 @ 12:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After two hours and 30 minutes of debate, East Carolina University's governing body voted unanimously to table a decision on renaming Aycock Residence Hall in a special called meeting Dec. 18.
Published: Monday, December 22nd, 2014 @ 11:36 am
By: ECU News Services
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Thankfully, much is being made of Heather Mac Donald's recent piece, "The Humanities and Us," in the City Journal. She illustrates the decline of college English departments, where "gender, sexuality, race, and class" have taken over Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare. The radicals of the...
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2014 @ 1:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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How many North Carolinians know that public school education in the state is centered around the government's Common Core initiative?
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 9:15 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Obamacare has the potential to transform this country into one that dangerously curbs our fundamental freedoms, socializes wealth, status, and risk, and puts us at the mercy and the discretion of a government that is more interested in social engineering than the individual rights.
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2012 @ 12:12 am
By: Diane Rufino
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