Time for Thom Tillis To Choose: Speaker OR Senate candidate
It’s one of the worst kept secrets in North Carolina that state House speaker Thom Tillis aspires to replace Kay Hagan in the United
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McCrory’s Commerce Make-Over: Is it really all that different from what we already have?
We got treated to a “major” announcement from Gov. Pat and his team in Burlington yesterday. The administration will be creating a new non-profit to handle
Continue readingMcClatchy + PFAW: Making you Vote where you claim residency, pay taxes = Tax Increase
The Crayon Corps in the newsroom at The McClatchy School of Creative Writing’s Raleigh Campus never ceases to amaze me. The good soldiers
Continue readingJosh Stein & The Democrats’ Dix Disinformation
Democrats’ last minute sweetheart deal to hand over Dix hospital property to the city of Raleigh is collapsing, and boys are those lefties upset. The political party that equates capitalism
Continue readingWanna get rich? Get a job with UNC!
Campus lefties are crying over Gov. Pat’s plans to cut $140 million from the UNC system. The lefties suggest that cutting even ONE PENNY from the university system budget
Continue readingThe VOTER ID saga: House goes wobbly while Senate doubles down
I don’t understand. North Carolinians OVERWHELMINGLY approve of requiring photo ID in order to cast a vote in the state’s elections. Yet, the “conservative revolution” — at
Continue readingTillis 2012: Tolls are bad. Tillis 2013: Tolls are OK.
A Mecklenberg County-based grassroots group has released some rather provocative video featuring state House speaker Thom Tillis. In the video, Tillis can be seen and heard addressing a
Continue readingDid Thom Tillis torpedo bid by Justice Newby’s relative to join UNC BOG?
I had a rather interesting conversation today with a fellow who has a LONG track record of influence in North Carolina Republican politics. He says Wake County conservative leaders
Continue readingEaster Sleaze: McClatchy pulls out the really sharp Crayons,tries “Blueprint” tag-team takedown of NCGOP
‘I expect this kind of stuff from Rob “Rielle Who?” Christensen and John “Gunga Din” Frank at McClatchy-Raleigh. But it’s disappointing to see it from Jim Morrill,
Continue readingUS vs.THEM: “Toll-Road Thom” sticks it to his constituents
Last year, an outcry from voters forced the legislature to back off the idea of putting tolls on Interstate 95. This year, Jones Street is trying again. This
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