The Speaker of The House tried to ram through a bill containing a smorgasbord of odds-and-ends spending desired by the governor and various special interests. It got shot down once
Continue readingWell, the effort to bring party disloyalty into the debate on HB 1224 blew up rather unceremoniously. Apparently, some ”pain-in-the-ass-teabagger web site” spilled the beans before the plan could
Continue readingGeneral Assembly Republicans had a rather heated caucus meeting about the controversial HB 1224 legislation on Monday. Sources in the caucus meeting told us that sources close to speaker Thom
Continue readingNot giving the speaker what he wants is now akin to party disloyalty. If the powers-that-be in the North Carolina House have their way, that will be absolutely true. We
Continue reading$107 Billion, 580 Million, 297 Thousand dollars. ($107,580,297,000.00) THAT is how much debt North Carolina state government had racked up by January 2014. And how has the “conservative revolution”
Continue readingIf you’re looking for shenanigans, you usually have to look no further than Raleigh’s Jones Street. Liberals and libertarians have been quite passionate about placing controls on governmental use of
Continue readingSources within county government tell me that the Moore County board of commissioners is preparing a resolution mandating that county authorities (1) refuse to cooperate with resettlement of the border-crashing
Continue readingThe “conservative revolution” rolls on. We’re seeing and hearing all kinds of ads promoting speaker Thom Tillis’s leadership on Jones Street. Yet, most of the recent reports from that jurisdiction
Continue readingThe Huffington Post — a left leaning web site — has joined the crowd of folks running analyses on the 2014 North Carolina US Senate race. They show a polling
Continue readingWe’ve all seen this movie before. Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman in Florida. Rodney King in Los Angeles. An isolated incident is amplified in the media — before any judicial
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