Book Tour Brouhaha?
There’s been all kinds of speculation about DOT secretary Tony Tata’s sudden departure from his post. Some of my well-placed folks in the capital city tell me that Tata’s split
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Shuler-ly, you jest.
Team McCrory’s official propaganda organ (state-run media) dropped a headline on us SO PREPOSTEROUS it might as well have said “The fat guy in the red suit really is going
Continue reading#ncga: It’s Monday. What are we hollerin’ about today?
A throng of The Round Rev’s filthy and / or addled followers formed a “half-circle” in Raleigh yesterday. (They apparently didn’t have enough for a FULL circle.) It was time for
Continue readingCarolina Rising is McCrory’s “hitman” on senators
Since our story from yesterday, we’ve gotten all kinds of communication from Raleigh insiders pinning the push-polling against three key GOP senators on Carolina Rising, a 501-c(4) run by former
Continue readingIs Team McCrory issuing political ‘hits’ on Senate leaders?
It sounds like something out of one of The Godfather movies, or the final days of Nixon. But the reports we’re getting make that headline look like a real possibility.
Continue reading#NCSEN: Tillis slams Cruz
Well, all of you folks who held your nose in the 2014 US Senate race — look at what you got: […] Afterward, in a fiery floor speech Friday, Cruz
Continue reading#CHANGETHATNAME : Movement to give Locke’s Hood more ‘sensitive’ name catches fire
We’ve received an awful lot of comments — online and offline — regarding the comments by John Hood this weekend on NC Spin. (Granted, a lot of people were interested
Continue readingJohn Hood. (Just WRONG.)
This weekend — like a handful of other North Carolinians — I tuned in to NC Spin to see what the Inside-The-Beltline crowd was babbling about. John Hood —
Continue readingTed Cruz preaches. (We say ‘AMEN!’)
I’ve been missing Jesse Helms. I got to watch the man up close for nearly two years in DC. The guy didn’t play the Washington game. He called a spade
Continue reading#NC-02: 77 percent of Ellmers 2015 $$$ from PACs
That’s right. According to congresswoman Renee Ellmers’s filings with the FEC, roughly 77 percent of her 2015 fundraising came from PACs and other assorted special interest groups. From January 1
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