The 1970s were a hellish decade for this country. Inflation out the wazoo. Skyrocketing gas prices. Oil embargoes. Record unemployment. Communist aggression rampant around the globe.
Published: Friday, March 21st, 2014 @ 2:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Pop quiz: what do you do when you are a politician who finds himself incapable of debating the merits of an opposing viewpoint?
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 @ 5:25 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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College students all over our state and country went nuts for Kay Hagan and Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. They voted for these two libs and worked tirelessly for them in both cycles. How did this devotion get repaid?
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2013 @ 4:00 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Any plan for rejuvenating North Carolina's economy by drawing down and spending more federal money is a plan for failure.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 @ 5:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's amazing how Americans have sat by and allowed the statists in DC to ignore, rewrite and basically stomp all over the specifics of the U.S. Constitution.
Published: Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 @ 6:22 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It is a very important question since the Democrats are driving the fiscal bus, and have been for the last four years. The obvious question is: Will they drive the nation over the fiscal cliff on Monday?
Published: Saturday, December 29th, 2012 @ 9:50 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A new lawsuit has been filed in Broward County, Florida that challenges Barack Obama's eligibility to be listed on the ballot for the president of the United States.
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2012 @ 9:13 pm
By: Marvin Sparks
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On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese, and over 2,400 Americans were killed. As a result, a patriotic fever engulfed the entire country.
Published: Sunday, November 25th, 2012 @ 10:48 am
By: Marvin Sparks
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Brant Clifton wrote two short pieces on Friday, and I am writing one today. Does anyone really care?
Published: Sunday, November 11th, 2012 @ 10:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Let us not be so cavalier with the system that our Founders crafted for us, the one secured by the blood of over a million Americans, and the one that the rest of the world looks to.
Published: Friday, November 9th, 2012 @ 6:25 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Ayn Rand and George Orwell are starting to look like real prophets. We've got record unemployment, bankruptcies, foreclosures, and business closings.
Published: Thursday, November 8th, 2012 @ 9:53 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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As I saw Sandra Fluke hob-nobbing around the Anointed One and his henchmen at the Democrat Convention (and since), I couldn't help but think about Monica L. and all that connotes.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 12:11 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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You said that you would have the most transparent presidency in the history of the United States.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 12:43 am
By: Marvin Sparks
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The ninth Commandment says something like "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor".
Published: Thursday, October 25th, 2012 @ 6:40 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Once again, we got treated to a double-header of televised political brilliance.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 10:09 am
By: Brant Clifton
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President Gerald Ford once quipped in the middle of a presidential debate, "It was my understanding that there would be no math."
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 5:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last night, Mitt Romney showed John McCain how it SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE in 2008. The Mittster called Barry's bluff on a number of occasions -- correcting his misstatements and outright lies.
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2012 @ 3:06 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We are still more than a month from Election Day, so I'm not ready to make predictions about state and federal races yet. For the sake of argument, however, let's imagine that the current polling leads for Barack Obama and Pat McCrory are predictive of the outcomes of their respective races.
Published: Thursday, October 4th, 2012 @ 3:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the entire Middle East Arab world exploded, President Obama went to Las Vegas in vigorous campaign mode.
Published: Sunday, September 30th, 2012 @ 10:30 am
By: Alicia Colon
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The boys and girls in The Ol' Reliable's newsroom have had a busy week -- running damage control for Walter Dalton, Elaine Marshall and NOW Barack Hussein Obama (MMM -- MMM -- MMM).
Published: Monday, August 27th, 2012 @ 3:04 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Prez is reported to have taken his wife and kids to church last Sunday (8/19) at a church near the WH. (I would guess it had to be a "Christian" church.) That would make the second or third (or maybe even fourth) time he has gone to church since he was anointed.
Published: Monday, August 27th, 2012 @ 10:36 am
By: Jim Bispo
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During President Obama's much-criticized "you didn't build that" speech last month in Roanoke, Va., his main point seemed to be that if you are successful in business you didn't do it alone.
Published: Friday, August 24th, 2012 @ 10:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Jan Brewer, the governor of Arizona, has my nomination for the heroine of the year.
Published: Monday, August 20th, 2012 @ 2:28 am
By: Marvin Sparks
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Candidate Barack Obama, arguably the most inept president since Jimmy Carter - and because of his complete inarguable abject dishonesty, I will make the argument of his being the most inept - believes he deserves four more years to complete the work he set out to do - make this a socialist nation.
Published: Thursday, August 9th, 2012 @ 9:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Obama's statement -- "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen" -- made at a July 13 speech in Roanoke, Va., did not sit well with business owners in North Carolina and across the country.
Published: Monday, July 30th, 2012 @ 3:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Obama has been relentless with his attacks on Mitt Romney, and his association with Bain Capital. The major media outlets only print the propaganda that the White House feeds them. Let's hear the other side of the story.
Published: Sunday, July 29th, 2012 @ 3:51 pm
By: Marvin Sparks
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