North Carolina Becomes 18th State Pushing Arizona’s New Immigration Law

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Audit the Feds

The Senate vote on Senator Vitter’s Audit the Fed amendment is likely today, please let your Senators know how you feel about that.

We live under a soft despot

The New Despotism of Bureaucracy
While the era of big government rages back, the tyranny of administration is just getting under way.
By: Matthew Spalding
May 7, 2010 4:00 A.M.
http://article.nationalreview.com/433584/the-new-despotism-of-bureaucracy/matthew-spalding

The objective of the American Founding was to break free of the old despotism, characterized by the arbitrary will of the stronger, based on force and fraud, masked by the false claims of long inheritance or divine right. Virtually every government at the time was based on a claim to rule without popular consent.

The Founders’ object was to establish the rule of law, decentralize political authority, and limit government to secure the unalienable rights with which man was endowed by “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.” They held that man, though fallible and full of passions, is capable of governing himself and that none was so much better than another as to rule him without his consent.

And yet here we are today, covered by a vast web of rules and regulations, endless policies and programs, all emanating from a central government, mostly the work of agencies and bureaucracies that for all intents and purposes operate outside the consent of the governed.

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May 4th 2010 Voter Guide

May 4th Republican Primary Candidates!

US SENATE:
• Richard Burr, INCUMBENT Website
• Eddie Burkes Website
• Brad Jones
• Larry Linney

US HOUSE NC 13th DISTRICT

• Dan Huffman Website
• Frank Hurley Website
• Bill Randall Website
• Bernie Reeves Website

NC COURT OF APPEALS CALABRIA SEAT:

• Ann Marie Calabria, INCUMBENT Website

NC COURT OF APPEALS ELMORE SEAT:
• Rick Elmore, INCUMBENT Website
• Steven Walker Website