Helms died at 1:15 a.m., said the Jesse Helms Center at Wingate University in North Carolina. The center's president, John Dodd, said in a statement that funeral arrangements were pending. "He was ...

"It's just incredible that he would die on July 4th, the same day of the Declaration of Independence and the same day that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died, and he certainly is a patriot in the ...

When Jesse Helms was elected Senator from North Carolina in 1972, most regarded him as just another conservative Southern voice. That image didn't last long as Helms demonstrated not just a skill for ...

Jesse Helms, former six-term Republican senator from North Carolina and de-facto leader of his party’s “culture wars,” found a way to make HIV-AIDS the communism of the 1990s. As chair of the Senate ...

LAST FRIDAY, on the Fourth of July, the great American patriot Jesse Helms passed away. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson also went to their great reward on Independence Day, so this is further proof of ...

JESSE HELMS LIVES FOR the kind of day he had last Friday. He got to be the hanging judge. He got to gavel down some liberals, then derail William Weld’s nomination to be ambassador to Mexico by ...