Category: Congress

  I’ve talked with some political professionals this past week and they tell me there is not much in the way of truly undecided voters at the top of the ballot (president, senator, governor).  Republicans have been licking their chops over L’affaire Cunningham — convinced…

  Once again,  I am completely disgusted by BOTH major party candidates in our state’s November US Senate race.  I think we lose if either of these two wins the seat.   The media and the political class want us to believe Cal Cunningham is…

  Try scrubbing a certain piece of information from cyberspace.   Good luck.  There are so many screenshots, links, and the like out there.  The minute you type something into a web browser, or a email program or chat program (and hit send)  it’s OUT…

        It would seem that the biggest excitement from Campaign ’20 is emanating from within the walls of the North Carolina State Board of Elections.  The GOP members of the board have resigned in protest.  The rules for  absentee ballots got changed…

    Ninth district congressman Dan Bishop, himself elected in the wake of allegations of ballot mischief, is following Dan Forest’s lead in seeking help from DC:   Congressman Dan Bishop (NC-09) issued the following statement on the ‘settlement’ announced yesterday among Democrat litigants to…

      We get ads from NFIB claiming Thom Tillis is “fighting to save North Carolina jobs” and then we hear THIS:   A few months before mass joblessness hit the United States, spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis, a number of House and…

      I’ve been around politics for a while.  In this game, rumors are as bountiful as pine straw in my neck of the woods.  Though, sometimes they do pan out.   Dr. Greg Murphy of Greenville has been quite the rising star.  He…

      It took long enough.  In the wake of that 2018 nail-biter of an election in the 9th congressional district,  a coalition of foaming-at-the-mouth drive-by media, sore-loser Democrats, and establishment Republicans teamed up to slander Mark Harris (R) and reverse the election results….

      We’ve told you about the FBI seizing his phone,  the insider trading allegations, and all that.   Now, it appears our senior US senator may be entangled in a possible gambling scandal:   News that Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) may have acted…

    Hey, if you’re going to copy someone,  make sure it’s someone who suffered the worst beat-down in the state’s political history:   Sen. Thom Tillis’ (R-NC) campaign spokesman acknowledged on Friday that he had copied large portions of a general election strategy memo…