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The vast majority of conservatives accept that government can and should intervene in private affairs when required to protect the rights to life, liberty, and property.
Published: Friday, November 27th, 2020 @ 8:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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These developments give many North Carolina conservatives pause. And for good reason.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2019 @ 8:32 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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I don’t think North Carolina should expand Medicaid under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Thursday, September 26th, 2019 @ 6:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In the twilight of his political career, Ronald Reagan made the media rounds to discuss his administration, legacy, and unfinished business
Published: Friday, March 15th, 2019 @ 3:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since 2010, when voters put Republicans in charge of most state governments across the United States, North Carolina became one of about a half-dozen states where conservative reformers have frequently - and sometimes spectacularly - faced off with progressives in ways that have attracted significan
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 @ 12:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After years of trying but failing to block the implementation of conservative policies in Raleigh, the state's progressive movement has a new rhetorical theme: North Carolina's recent economic performance has been lagging behind that of our neighbors
Published: Tuesday, March 6th, 2018 @ 9:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has become a national leader in implementing supply-side economics - but that doesn't mean what you think it means
Published: Monday, February 5th, 2018 @ 12:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Modern American conservatism weaves several strands of thought - constitutionally limited government, free-market economics, time-honored virtues, and prudent statesmanship - into a fabric that is both large enough to encompass a majority coalition and strong enough to withstand
Published: Tuesday, February 28th, 2017 @ 9:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After Republicans won their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010, and particularly after they won the U.S. Senate in 2014, the nation's capital became a place of active inaction
Published: Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 @ 2:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During a recent book tour across North Carolina, I had occasion to visit with thousands of politically active people, most of them conservatives
Published: Saturday, April 30th, 2016 @ 10:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you think government is too large and wields too much power, then you have plenty of reasons to be dismayed by recent national developments. But if you live in North Carolina, there is some good news mixed in with the bad.
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 @ 12:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Among conservatives around the country, North Carolina has become a superstar - a place where innovative ideas, sustained investment, diligence, and political acumen have combined to produce an impressive string of hard-won victories.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2015 @ 5:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A group of conservatives opposed to the death penalty have started raising awareness of their cause to state leaders.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 4:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With the release of a 30-second television ad broadcast during last night's Republican Primary Presidential Debate, Moore County GOP Executive Committee Member and communications professional Kay R. Daly announced that she is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress.
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 2:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Senate has approved a Taxpayer Protection Act by the required three-fifths vote. The measure approves amending the North Carolina Constitution to place caps on income-tax rates and spending growth while requiring lawmakers to set aside money in a rainy-day fund to guard against...
Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 @ 3:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Will the real North Carolina conservatives please stand up? Game show aficionados will remember "To Tell the Truth," which aired in one form or another on CBS, NBC, and in syndication for decades. Hosted by the likes of Bud Collyer (the original voice of Superman on radio and motion pictures)...
Published: Saturday, June 14th, 2014 @ 3:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Newspapers, activists and all who care about open government recently celebrated "Sunshine Week." Now it's time for North Carolina conservatives to make 2014 Sunshine Year.
Published: Wednesday, March 26th, 2014 @ 8:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Any political movement that can turn out tens of thousands of protesters on a chilly morning in February must be deemed impressive.
Published: Friday, February 14th, 2014 @ 11:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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According to liberal critics of Gov. Pat McCrory and the leadership of the General Assembly, the state should be losing its attraction as a place to do business. Our economy should be suffering from inadequate demand, thanks to state budget cuts. The passage of the marriage amendment and abortion...
Published: Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 @ 2:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the past three years, the North Carolina legislature has enacted Ronald Reagan's favorite tax reform, Barry Goldwater's favorite regulatory reform, and Milton Friedman's favorite education reform. Yet some North Carolina conservatives of my acquaintance seem to think that the Republicans who...
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 1:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After a weekend of online chatter, media spin, and political fulminations, there can be no doubt that the end of the 2013 legislative session was, in truth, the start of the 2014 election cycle.
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 @ 10:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The modern-day conservatives who inhabit the General Assembly, the executive branch, and other institutions believe that the state's best days still lay ahead. But they recognize that North Carolina's traditional public policies have to change before progress is possible.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 11:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although news accounts and political chatter continue to emphasize the differences between the North Carolina House and Senate on tax reform, the latest Senate proposal took major strides toward the House position on a number of points. In reality, the two chambers are now fairly close to an agreeme
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2013 @ 8:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In Raleigh, the conservatives are confidently progressive and the progressives are desperately conservative. The modern-day conservatives who inhabit the General Assembly, the executive branch...
Published: Monday, July 1st, 2013 @ 1:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a misnamed article, "Common Core is a conservative victory," Republican education reformers Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli used a recent News &Observer op-ed to try and persuade North Carolina conservatives to support the new national Common Core education standards.
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 @ 4:25 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Fiscal conservatism comes naturally to me. After all, my middle name is McDonald.
Published: Friday, April 26th, 2013 @ 11:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While gathering some performance metrics for North Carolina policy nonprofits, I noticed an interesting trend in the data from the microblogging site Twitter. While you might think that the most-followed Twitter accounts on...
Published: Monday, March 18th, 2013 @ 1:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina conservatives have embraced parental choice and competition as indispensable elements of education reform for decades. Now that conservatives are in the majority in state government, you can expect more proposals to...
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2013 @ 8:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While increasing dependency on government is a very real problem, with both economic and political consequences, it cannot be measured effectively by annual income-tax statistics. Taxation is a process, not an event.
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2012 @ 12:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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n July 17, 2012, North Carolina will have run-off elections (officially the 2nd Primary) for a number of State offices in which neither candidate received in excess of 40% of the vote.
Published: Thursday, May 31st, 2012 @ 9:22 am
By: Ken Lang
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