#ncpol: Throwing stones in glass houses
In 2010 and 2012, Republicans took over in Washington and Raleigh promising to be better than the other bunch that had been running the place. How have they done? Let’s
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NC’s hyper-regulated health care
Only New Jersey, Hawaii, DC, and Vermont slap more red-tape on their health care providers than North Carolina does. THAT information comes from a recent study by The Mercatus Center
Continue reading#ncpol: Educating ‘Lieutenant Linda’
Wouldn’t it be nice if the drive bys fact-checked and interrogated Democrat candidates like they do Republicans? (We can all dream, can’t we?) The Asheville Citizen-Times’s Mark Barrett was standing
Continue reading#ncga: Feds INDICT Fletcher Hartsell
The other shoe has dropped. A Cabarrus County senator has a federal indictment to go along with his state indictment on campaign finance violations. If you recall, Hartsell had reported
Continue readingThe Seinfeld campaign
Jerry Seinfeld once famously described his long-running eponymous hit sitcom as a show ‘about nothing.’ One could easily say the same thing about this year’s election season. On a national
Continue reading#ncpol: THREE COUNTIES join NC Fisheries Assoc. in suing THE STATE re: job-killing regs
We’ve written previously about this scuffle between state regulators and commercial fishermen along the North Carolina coast. Now, it appears things have spilled over into the courtroom. Just in
Continue reading#ncpol: Riots are DONE? BACK TO TOILETS.
The N&O’s Colon Campbell is one happy little guy. The unpleasantness in the streets of Charlotte appears to be over, for the most part, and he can resume his quest for
Continue readingA drive by media confession: HB2 protests really NOT hurting NC economy
I’ll admit I did quite a spectacular spit-take when I read THIS. (Editors Note: What a waste of good scotch.) The drive by media has been an echo chamber,
Continue readingGuess what? Spending more money makes NO DIFFERENCE on student performance
Once again, heads will be exploding over in Blinky and Scowly’s offices in Jim Goodmon’s special little socialist fantasy world. Blinky and Scowly are ALL over the place trying to
Continue readingBursting the Left’s Doom & Gloom bubble re: North Carolina
Leftists thrive on misery. They cannot STAND for anyone to be doing well on their own and being happy. Every two to four years, they want to tell us how
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