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​17Apr19
Carthage Fire Department Adding Donated Ladder Truck​
With Technology, A New Walk of Freedom For A Double-Amputee Combat Vet​
NCDOT Board Commits To Funding Intersection Improvements Along U.S. 15-501 In Moore County
Foundation Awards Recovery Grant​
Schools Answer Criticism Over SP Elementary Bidding
​Senate set to vote Wednesday on charter bond bill​
How to close the health insurance coverage gap
Eleven school districts, two charter schools closing May 1 for teachers’ (union) rally
Idea: Train and pay principals wisely​
WRAL: Today@NCCapitol: Oysters and business tax cuts​
WRAL: Lawmakers send abortion bill to Cooper​
​Alcohol bills sail through N.C. House on way to Senate​
Bill ending three retirement options sent back to committee to make it more ‘lawyer-proof’
N.C. First Step Act would ease penalties for low-level drug users
WRAL: Judge: Former NAACP head allowed back in General Assembly​
​WRAL: Bounced check fees, small loan fees go up under bill (You, Dear Reader, are correct; the state should not​ be involved in the market)
​WRAL: Duke Energy rate bill clears first hurdle
​Gun storage education bill moving through House (Unfortunately, our own Rep. Allen McNeill sponsored this $80K/year do-nothing-but-feel-good bill)
WRAL: Uber against NC lawmaker's plan to make ride-sharing safer
​Restore NC’s old film tax incentives? Now that’s a sequel nobody needs
National Tax Freedom Day is today, five days after N.C. reached tax freedom
​George Mason law school sr. assoc. dean: Justice Kavanaugh will not be fired despite demands
Two pro-Kavanaugh females accused of supporting ‘rapist,’ not allowed to make statement at campus townhall
College: Should you go at all?
Asinine — WaPo Claim: ‘How Trump’s border crisis is driven by climate change’
John Kerry: Ocasio-Cortez offered ‘more leadership in one day’ than Trump on climate
Flying cars could save us from climate change
Hopeful “Climate President” Jay Inslee Stumped By Basic Question On Recycling
Why did YouTube demonetize World’s largest Climate Change video channel?
Pelosi’s Payback: House Speaker Says a ‘Glass of Water’ with a ‘D’ by it’s...
Trump Predicts The Two Dems He Believes Will Be 'Finalists'
Ben Shapiro: Criticism of Ilhan Omar Isn't Incitement
Walter E. Williams: Some Things to Ponder
Michelle Malkin: Questions for Chase (Away) Bank
John Stossel: Right to Print Arms
Star Parker: Liberal Hypocrisy About Sanctuary Cities
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham: Pulitzer Prizes and Howling Omissions
Trump Vetoes Bill To Pull U.S. Troops From Yemen
​Beto O’Rourke’s charitable donations last year: 0.3% of his income
Why Is the Violent Gang Culture that Killed Nipsey Hussle Being Celebrated?
‘Feel a Husband’s Masculine Strength’ Qatar Cleric Films Guide on How Muslim Men Should Beat Their Wives (VIDEO)​
Breaking: President Trump to Hold Rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin the Same Night as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Pelosi Assures Media That Democrats Are Totally Not Anti-Semitic
​Diabolical: Islam’s Past and Present Attacks on European Churches
Trump Tax Law Saved Sanders Nearly $40,000 Last Year
UAW Scandal Hits Chattanooga
Democrats demand secret ballot for Mexican unions
Kevin Williamson: Why ‘Stop Sanders’?
​The Questions Medicare for All Supporters Must Answer
Secret ‘memos of understanding’ among house Dems; it’s almost as if they don’t trust each other
CNN’s Ratings Continue to Collapse In Epic Fashion

​16Apr19
NCGOP Executive Director Woodhouse stepping down after state convention
​Speed A Little Lose A Lot Campaign Underway
After 2-Year Search, New Director Named For Moore County DSS
Shocking! (not shocking) County Making Progress on Recycling, But Costs Outpacing Expenses
Adjustments to voter ID law a flawed fix
Selections of Young, Brook give Democrats 8-7 edge on state Court of Appeals (This matters because Dem Judges tend to be activist judges, "interpreting" laws to suit their ideology; i.e., they "legislate from the bench.")
Pro-choice opposition to infanticide bill, House Republican’s bad healthcare bill, and the NCAE teacher strike
WRAL: Today@NCCapitol: Fishing, beer and Daylight Saving Time​
​'Born alive' abortion bill passes NC Senate
​Manufacturing jobs on the rise
Mark Steyn: The Heartbreak of Notre Dame
Outrage After CBS Show Tweets Image with Words “Assassinate” and “Trump”
Hillary Gets Skewered for ‘Game of Thrones’ Comment
What ‘Game Of Thrones’ Has To Teach Us About Real-Life Power Conflicts
If You’re Getting a Huge Tax Refund, You’re Doing It Wrong
Rush: NYT Admits Face It, You Probably Got a Tax Cut
9 Apocalyptic Lies Fed To Americans About The Republican Tax Bill
Why One-Third Of Biologists Now Question Darwinism
‘The postcard was bogus,’ but GOP tax overhaul saves Americans 41 million hours of filing stress​Pelosi Waves Off AOC’s Left Flank of the Democratic Party: It’s ‘Like Five People’
The Numbers are in, Trump Campaign Building “Unprecedented War Chest”
Former MA Governor Bill Weld to Challenge Trump for GOP Nomination in 2020 (RINO fool)
DNC Chair Takes a Torch to Fox News ‘Leadership’ While ON Fox News: You Don’t ‘Trust Your Own’ Viewers
‘Forever Fed,’ but why?
How Identity Politics Plays Right Into The Hands Of Big Business
​New Hampshire Voter Admits Voter Fraud? Cast Second Ballot Out-of-State
Texas Is Turning America Into an Oil-Exporting Juggernaut
Notre Dame Burns. As Does Our Civilization?​
Marine Corps suffers identity crisis in age of cyberwarfare, artificial intelligence
Many Think Texas Is A Conservative Shangrila. They’re Wrong. The Taxes Are Brutal.
Feminist, Pro-Gay Mother Of Trans Child Critiques Bans On ‘Conversion Therapy’
Tucker Carlson Takes On America's Ruling Class
#NeverTrump Shapiro Deletes Tweet Mocking Trump’s Response to Notre Dame Blaze
​Easter Egg Hunts and Deluded Political Ideologies
​The Moral Case For Israel Annexing The West Bank—And Beyond
Pete Buttigieg, Black Voters, And Mike Pence
Complaint: Mall of America suspect was ‘looking for someone to kill’ after being rejected by women​
Despite Timeline Discrepancy, Oprah Still Stands By Film Denouncing Michael Jackson
New Map Shows It's Not Safe To Wear New Shoes Anywhere In San Francisco
Facebook Threatens to Destroy Conservative Group After One User Posts Fake News​
Venezuela sells $400 million in gold as it struggles to pay Russian debt
The Left eating the Left: AOC quits Facebook, doubles-down on opposition to Amazon
Progressive Florida Congresswoman Claims Protests Against Her Equal “Hate Crimes”
Dennis Prager: Notre Dame: An Omen
Oh Snap! A Hollywood Democrat Just Attacked Pelosi
Demian Brady: Trump Tax Cuts Eased Complexity and Compliance Burden on American Taxpayers
VIDEO: Antifa stages protest outside Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s home, cast ‘curses’ upon him
Five Times The Obama Administration Investigated Itself
Petition Demands Purge Of Corrupt UAW Official
AOC blew Amazon out of New York in 2019 over tax breaks but demanded one for herself in 2012
Victor Davis Hanson: The Progressive Revolution: From Democratic to Liberal to Progressive to Socialist 
Civil War: Nancy Pelosi Hears A Painful Truth, Then Delivers One​
2020 Presidential Race Can of Nuts

• Biden part Deux: The China connection
• Old School: Polls Show Democratic Voters Sticking With Bernie and Biden
• Gillibrand Campaign Blames Weak Fundraising Numbers on Franken Comments​
• Pete Buttigieg Praised Bernie Sanders For His ‘Socialist’ Beliefs in 2000 Essay
• Center for American Progress CEO Throws ThinkProgress Under Bus After Sanders Criticism
• Bernie's Charitable Contributions Far Under Average First Year He Made Seven Figures​
• Sanders Has Combative Moments During Fox News Town Hall
• The Hypocrisy Is Real — Dems Fear Trump Might Follow Their Sanctuary City Drop-off policy
• 2020 Democrats struggle to raise money faster than they spend it
• ‘Fortunate’ Bernie Sanders’ income, tax returns cloud attempt to woo disaffected Trump voters
• Elizabeth Warren has some big government plans for public lands
• Swallowell: I Will Jail Those Who Defy My Gun Grabbing Agenda
• AOC Says Trump's Committed So Many Impeachable Offenses But Struggles to Name Three
• Bernie Confirms What We Already Knew: He Literally Refuses To Put His Money Where His Mouth Is
• Fact Check: Sen. Gillibrand's Latest Talking Point About The NRA Is Completely False
• Buttigieg Laments That America Isn't a Democracy...Because of the Electoral College ​(The Framers feared direct democracy. That's why they gave us a republic, and they were right to do so!)
• Watching Bernie at the Fox News Town Hall: Memories of the Soviet Union
• Pat Buchanan: Mayor Pete and the Crackup of Christianity
• There’s Something On These Secret Police Tapes That Pete Buttigieg Doesn’t Want Released
• Presidential Hopeful Marianne Williamson Proposes Federal 'Department of Peace Creation'
• Left-leaning Outlet In CO Says Hickenlooper ‘Making Stuff Up’ On Death Penalty
• Liberal Donor Group Wants Next President to Support Green New Deal
• Size Matters: Beto Greeted by Really Small Crowd on His First Visit to Charlotte, NC

Bigotry

• Comey Never Had Anything on Collusion to Give Mueller​
• This Hate Crime Helps Show How To Know Real Ones From Hoaxes
• The Party of the KKK: Ohio Democrat Drafts Amendment Seeking To Make Black Babies Exempt From Pro-Life Law

Constitution

• Why Did Justice Gorsuch Not 'Want To Go Through Examples' In Latest First Amend. Case?

   Rights & Liberty

• NM Editorial Notes Big Problem In ‘Universal Background Checks’
• Swalwell: I Will Jail Those Who Defy My Gun Grabbing Agenda
• 5 Facts About Tax Day and Income Taxes
• The Second Amendment Stories the National Media Fail to Report...or Get Completely Wrong
• Massachusetts Campus Police Chief on Leave After Liking Tweets by NRA, Trump
• Slavery Is Alive and Well Today… but Not in the Way Many Expect
• With Roe on the ropes, abortion divide grows between Progressive and conservative states
• Prosecutor’s Refusal To Charge Mayor Indictment Of Preemption Laws
• New York's Montgomery County Officials Wants To Join SCOTUS Lawsuit
• Christian Adoption Agency Sues Michigan And HHS For Religious Discrimination
• Texan Conservative Activist Defends Pro-Gun Organization From Fake News

   Political Correctness (i.e., shutting down non-Progressive thinking)

• Is criticizing Rep. Ilhan Omar's comments an incitement of violence? Not even close
• 'Deadnaming': Trans Actors Blast IMDB For Publishing Birth Names; Site Defends Its Policy
• Monty Python Great Mocks PC Outrage Culture, Defends Comedy
• UPDATE: Male Feminist Cowers to Media on Black Hole Image, Bows to Woman Who Wrote 0.26% of Code
• ​George P. Bush Spokesman Calls for Removal of all Texas Monuments

​​Coup d'état​

• On your mark. Get set. Mueller Report!
• No, Joe Scarborough, Spying On Trump Wasn’t Done ‘By The Book’
• Why Democrats Freaked Out When Barr Said The Trump Campaign Was Spied On
• House Dems Want Stephen Miller To Testify

​​Education

• ​New instruction could help people get more month out of the money
• ​Reclaiming a robust speech heritage at NC State​​
• ​Community, religious leaders gather to support charter school transportation grants
• Michigan State apparently ignored 2018 federal court ruling on due process until student sued
• University reverses deactivation of conservative student group that hosted ‘Men Are Not Women’ speech
• Penn made conservative students pay $800 to protect Candace Owens from empty threats
• Salena Zito: An Answer to the Cost of College and Community Collapse: Community Colleges

​​Environmental Extremism

• Climate agenda’s ‘goal is nothing less than total control of every aspect of human life, which we call ‘totalitarianism’
• Banning straw emojis will relieve about as much pollution as banning the straws themselves
• Flashback 2017: The Key Charade of the UN Paris Agreement
• Coral Bleaching Update: It’s Not As Bad As We Thought
• White House: climate science review panel taking (bad) shape?! – to be led by former ambassador who ‘doesn’t have a history of speaking about climate change’
• Flashback 2008: Climate change study predicts refugees fleeing into Antarctica by 2030
• Green Madness In Minnesota
• London Protesters Glue Themselves to Things to Raise Awareness About Climate Change

​​Fourth Estate / Fifth Column (the media)

• Netflix Series Accused of Making Fake Claims About Walrus Deaths
• ​NYT Rewards Poorly Ranked Valerie Jarrett Book With Spot on ‘Best Sellers’ List
• Media Tries to Use Notre Dame Fire to Embarrass President Trump
• Chunk Todd Battles Kellyanne Conway, Then Coddles Jay Inslee
• CBS Chides Trump Supporters for Fueling President's Feud with Omar
• Angry Shep Smith Won’t Allow Mention of Attacks on French Churches
• Clank! NY Times Touts 'Privacy,' Then Wants Everyone's Tax Info Public
• Blame the Media! NY Times Finds Taxpayers ‘Skeptical’ They Got Tax Cut
• NBC: Zuckerberg papers show Soylent Facebook is made of people, or something

Health Care

• At Fox Town Hall, Bernie Sanders Still Can’t Explain How He’s Paying For ‘Medicare For All’
• Peter Roff: Democrats Arbitration Proposal Binds Patients Badly

Jihad

• Nadler (D, NY), who represents the WTC's district, has no problem with Omar's comment​​
• Boston Marathon bombing, 6 years later: Did jihadi wife Katherine Russell escape justice?
• Ilhan Omar: I’ve experienced more ‘direct threats on my life’ since Trump tweet of 9/11 video
• Qanta Ahmed: Ilhan Omar is a disgrace to Islam and doesn’t represent my Muslim religion
• Brian Stelter Says ‘Right Wing Rage Machine’ Fueled Omar News Cycle: ‘This Controversy Was Created’​
• Ilhan Omar Raises Massive Donations Despite Anti-Semitic Controversies
• At the Noor Trial (10)
• Ilhan Omar's Response To Notre Dame Cathedral Burning Down Draws Criticism
• WATCH: Sanders Defends Omar's Anti-Semitism
• As Notre Dame Burns, Social Media Users Bombard Videos With Laugh Reactions
• “Allah Est Grand” – Muslims LAUGH In Threads On Notre Dame Fire

​National Security

• Fencing cut in half in Texas County hard hit by border crisis. Thanks, Democrats
• President Trump may have just solved the immigration debate with a single tweet!
• Why Not Adopt an Illegal?
• “Sanctuary Cities” Slam Door on Illegals
• La La Land
• U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards; Hezbollah Now Accepting Kidney Donations
• Another #NeverTrump Loser Whines About Trump Plan To Send Illegals To Sanctuary Cities
• Illegal Charged After Attempting to Lure Underage Girls into His Car
• More details on what Assange was up to with Chelsea Manning
• No, Trump wasn’t kidding about shipping illegals to sanctuary cities
• Cal Thomas: Flooding the Sanctuary Zones
• Ken Blackwell: After IRGC Blacklisting, It’s Time to Engage the Iranian Resistance
• Pompeo Slams Lawmakers Pushing to Choke Off Iran’s Nuclear Work, Oil Trade as ‘Grandstanding’

Violent Left

• 2 men allegedly attack Trump fan wearing MAGA hat who originally came from West Africa
• Three Times When Democrats ‘Incited Violence’ Against Their Ideological Opponents​
• Conservative Activist Allegedly Chased By Protester In SUV After College Event
• WATCH: CBS Calls For Political Violence in New Ad Campaign

​Where Are NCGOP's State Politicians?

• TN: Pro-Gun Legislation Scheduled for Consideration in Both Chambers This Week

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VIDEOS

Preferred Pronouns or Prison​ (14:49) 17Apr19

Walter E. Williams on Government-Induced, Economic Slavery (8:25) 16Apr19

Walter E Williams - What is a Right? (4:11) 15Apr19

​Walter E Williams - The Art of Legalized Theft  (3:57) 15Apr19

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