#ncga: ‘I dunno. Whadda you wanna do?”
Things are supposedly winding down in Raleigh. The GOP-controlled House and Senate are at an impasse over a state budget. Word is that staff and non-essential legislators will be sent
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A sobering look at NC’s fiscal health
The Moral Monday rabble dirtying up the streets in Winston-Salem right now likes to tell us how North Carolina is going to hell in a handbasket since the GOP took over
Continue readingFreedomWorks: Ellmers is NC’s most liberal GOPer in House
FreedomWorks — the flagship organization of the Tea Party — has issued scorecards for the current session of Congress that show Second District representative Renee Ellmers as the most liberal
Continue readingNC-02: Duncan keeping pace with Ellmers in fundraising
The race for the Second Congressional District is usually settled in the GOP primary. Since 2012, those primaries have been contentious affairs featuring under-funded, lesser-known Tea Party candidates going after
Continue readingA triumph of symbolism over substance
We’ve got rampant unemployment. We are accumulating debt faster than our economy can produce value. Our borders are being overrun by illegal immigrants. ObamaCare is crippling the economy and killing
Continue readingDC Dems: Burr can be gotten in 2016
They’re having a hard time finding someone to step up to the plate and challenge North Carolina’s senior US senator, but that hasn’t affected national Democrats’ attitude about North Carolina
Continue reading#ncpol: Ethics? What’s that? (A new grocery chain? )
The cloud of ethics scandal has wafted over from Jones Street to the state board of elections. Apparently, another Republican officeholder — also an attorney — is needing a bit
Continue readingFollowing in Greece’s footsteps?
The drivebys and the “wise men” in DC and on Wall Street are tut-tutting about the mess in Greece. (Thom Tillis says his “ancestral homeland” could learn something from North
Continue reading#ncga: Ethics, meet Tim Moore. Mr. Moore, meet Ethics.
For the second time in a little over three years, Tim Moore’s ethical choices have made him an easy target for Blinkin’ Chris’s comedy website. Moore ran for speaker promising
Continue readingNC-03: A GOP threeway
Lately, it seems that all of Walter Jones’s campaigns are raucous affairs. DC-based groups dumped millions into his primary race in 2014. Well, it looks like his 2014 opponent is
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