As the dust settles from the 2010 Mid-Term elections, Tea Partiers are looking around and taking stock. For many, if not most, these elections were the first national-level contests they’ve been through as grassroots organizers. While the results were undeniably positive for the Republican Party, some wonder if those results bode just as well for […]
As you may have heard, former Speaker of the U.S. House Newt Gingrich will be coming to Charlotte on Oct. 27 to headline a fundraiser for the North Carolina Republican Party. The funds raised will be used to support Get Out the Vote efforts in Mecklenburg County for Republican candidates. The Charlotte Observer reported on the event, […]
Several weeks ago, all candidates for the U.S. House and Senate in North Carolina were mailed and urged to complete Campaign for Liberty’s 2010 Federal Survey. This survey asked questions to find out what each candidate believes about the issues that are important to constitutional government and liberty. The survey and candidate responses – or in […]
Gang of thieves writ large: The City of Rock Hill will shut off the water to over 100 homes on Monday because the homeowners don’t want to be annexed. These people already pay for the water they’re getting, and pay twice as much as city residents already. A majority of the Rock Hill City Council […]
As we move into the last couple of months of the midterm election season, things are looking up for Republicans all across the board. According to a recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, the GOP leads the Democrats by 7 points on the “generic ballot” question, 52 percent to 45 percent. That 7-point advantage is up […]
Last Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed H.R. 5175, the “Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act”, by a vote of 219 to 206. Like most votes on Capitol Hill these days, the vote was highly partisan; of the 219 “aye” votes, only two were Republicans (Mike Castle of […]
It’s been often said that, “elections have consequences.” While that’s true, a careful analysis reveals that the most important policies, those that govern our economy and foreign policy, don’t substantially change, regardless of which party is in power. What follows are 50 statistics that illustrate just how close the U.S. economy is to total implosion, […]
If you’re anything more than a casual observer of conservative North Carolina politics, you know that this past weekend saw the 2010 NCGOP State Convention in Winston-Salem. As the marquee Republican event in the state leading up to what could be a historic mid-term election, most of the official attention paid to the event was […]
Much has been written over the past year about the ongoing “civil war” within the Republican Party. To a certain extent, this is hyperbole; Democrats and much of the mainstream media outlets in this country would love nothing better than to see the GOP tear itself apart in an ideological bloodletting, driving either moderates or […]
