Update (2:11pm)- video- Why is Dale running?

Update-
Dale Folwell will be running for  Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina in 2012.

more info can be found at CanFixNC.com

For those who are concerned about the district in which Dale currently serves in, Debra Conrad is currently running for that position.

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I’m sitting at the Forsyth County Republican Party Headquarters in Winston Salem, NC. Speaker Pro Tem Dale Folwell is about to announce what his intentions for the 2012 election cycle. Numerous speculations have been made about what position would attract a leader of his caliber. Those in Forsyth County have been anxiously awaiting this announcement ever since he made it public he did not intend to seek reelection for his current House district that he has served four terms including this current term.

Stay tuned!

Video to follow.

Two pieces of dangerous legislation are currently being debated in Congress that could forever change the Internet: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). The proponents of these harmful bills claim that it is necessary to stop online piracy, the illegal sale and/or distribution of copyrighted and trademarked products on the Internet. Regardless of how well-intentioned the pieces of legislation may be or one’s perspective on intellectual property laws, SOPA and the Protect IP Act would severely cripple free speech and stifle innovation online.

The Internet is a prime example of what Nobel Prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek called spontaneous order. One single institution does not control the Internet. This is primarily what makes the Internet so great. Billions of individuals all over the world are free to spread unrestricted information on the Internet. I actually became a libertarian largely because I was exposed to ideas that I never heard before on the free Internet. Can you imagine how terrible the Internet would be if it was centrally-planned by the government? A centralized institution cannot possibly know or satisfy the unique wants of billions of individuals across the globe.

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article by By: Julie Borowski, Freedomworks Staff Writer

Buried within the enormous 2009 stimulus bill were provisions encouraging states to develop data systems for collecting copious information on public-school kids. To qualify for stimulus money, states had to agree to build such systems according to federally dictated standards. So all 50 states either now maintain or are capable of maintaining extensive databases on public-school students.

The administration wants this data to include much more than name, address and test scores. According to the National Data Collection Model, the government should collect information on health-care history, family income and family voting status. In its view, public schools offer a golden opportunity to mine reams of data from a captive audience.

The department’s eagerness to get control of all this information is almost palpable. But current federal law prohibits a nationwide student database and strictly limits disclosure of a student’s personal information. So the department has determined that it can overcome the legal obstacles by simply bypassing Congress and essentially rewriting the federal privacy statute.

Last April, the department proposed regulations that would allow it and other agencies to share a student’s personal information with practically any government agency or even private company, as long as the disclosure could be said to support an evaluation of an “education program,” broadly defined. That’s how the CDC might end up with your daughter’s health records or the Department of Labor with your son’s test scores.

Not surprisingly, these proposed regulations provoked a firestorm of criticism. But on Dec. 2, the Department of Education rejected almost all the criticisms and released the regulations. As of Jan. 3, 2012, interstate and intergovernmental access to your child’s personal information will be practically unlimited. The federal government will have a de facto nationwide database of supposedly confidential student information.

Unless Congress steps in and reclaims its authority, student privacy and parental control over education will be relics of the past.

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2 members of the NC Tea Party went to NYC for the very first Glenn Beck show and spoke about Tea Party groups no longer needing to form rallies and marches, instead we must roll up our sleeves and get work done as you hear in this clip.

We have four more tickets to give away!

You must have a ticket to enter the community college where this event is being held. The event is on Saturday, September 17 · 10:00am - 4:00pm; at Wilkes Community College – Walker Center (1328 S. Collegiate Drive) (View Facebook event page)

Same rules/directions apply:

Leave a comment here on the website, one entry each day between now and Tuesday at noon. Tuesday at noon, we will pick a random number based on the number of entries and one lucky commenter will receive four tickets to rally (estimated value of $20).

Extra Entries:

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Monday: What county do you live in?
Tuesday: Who is your most favored politician? (Can be local, state, or national level!)

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