Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, gave a speech last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that explains what most Americans have forgotten about what makes America so exceptional. Carney references a 1978 piece by Czech dissident Vaclav Havel wherein Havel explains the evolution of tacit compliance with socialist policies. The example he...
October 25 marks the anniversary of the Edenton Tea Party of 1774, a historical event crucial to American history, without which there might not have been a Declaration of Independence. In celebration of this anniversary, the John Locke Foundation will release its newest production, “A Letter to the King,” on October 30. This docudrama will...
On Oct. 25, 1774 (250 years ago this month), 51 ladies in Edenton signed a statement supporting their husbands’ boycotts of tea and other British products.Their “tea party” is one of the first overt political activities by women in the 13 colonies.
Neither the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence nor the Halifax Resolves constitutes the first formal act by North Carolinians against British tyranny.
Today marks the 248th anniversary of the Halifax Resolves, a catalyst of the Declaration of Independence.
For political journalists, a standard tool of the trade is the New Year prediction column. Especially when the date is an even number, signifying the start of a presidential or midterm election cycle, pundits typically offer up a series of forecasts about who will win, who will lose, and whom the losers will blame. (Who’ll...
North Carolina's anti-monopoly clause has a long history. It could help reformers battling state certificate-of-need rules.
After a historic protest that ended in the illegal takedown of Silent Sam, a Confederate statue at UNC-Chapel Hill, the university faces tough inquiries about campus security and law enforcement. A striking question — about how a handful of people tore down a weighty statue under watch of city and university police — so far...
RALEIGH — Since 2005, the North Carolina History Project has sought to shine a light on many of the resources and personalities in our state’s history that have been forgotten or neglected. Now the Raleigh-based History Project has expanded its work to a satellite office in Edenton. Dr. Troy Kickler, founding director of the N.C. History Project, discussed the issue with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
Like millions of average Americans, I have attended a Tea Party. Have you ever wondered how, in the 21st century, so many Americans have associated with groups named after the original Boston Tea Party of 1773? Have you wondered where this movement originated? Who leads it? What are the values and concerns of the Tea Party attendees? When did the name “Tea Party” become synonymous with these protesters? ...Dick Armey, chairman of FreedomWorks’ board of directors, and FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe answer these questions in Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto. The book promotes how FreedomWorks and its local training workshops are expanding grass-roots activism, but none of this would be happening if large numbers of Americans were not disgusted with government.
RALEIGH — North Carolinians fed up with record deficits, wasteful spending, and the ever-expanding power of the federal government will have an outlet to vent their frustration this Tax Day — about two dozen of them, in fact. Rallies are planned in 20 Tar Heel cities, ranging from Asheville in the mountains to Kill Devil Hills on the coast.
