US 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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Lefties LOSE IT over Senator Tillman’s charter school proposal
It’s absolutely refreshing to hear an elected official championing the supremacy of the free market over the iron-fist of the bureaucracy. Legislation introduced by state Senator Jerry Tillman (R-Randolph)
Continue readingThom Goolsby’s RJA repeal is pure common-sense. PASS IT! SIGN IT! MAKE IT SO!
State senator Thom Goolsby’s (R-Wilmington) bill to repeal the grossly-misnamed Racial Justice Act has cleared its first hurdle. It passed a Senate committee today. The RJA — passed by a
Continue readingState treasurer jumps into turf war over Charlotte airport
A deputy to state treasurer Janet Cowell is warning that efforts to take Charlotte Douglas International Airport away from the City of Charlotte and have it run
Continue readingForget the football and basketball teams. How about that LAW SCHOOL?
Chapel Hill is known mainly for two things: (1) Great basketball and (2) loony-tunes lefty nuttiness. Basketball is down a little bit this year. (The football team
Continue readingRob “Rielle Who?” hits the nail on the head re: McCrory, but misses the mark on a lot of other stuff
Guest lecturer Rob Christensen appears to be filling in for John Frank at the Raleigh campus of McClatchy’s School of Creative Writing. Mr. Frank, the school’s dean, must be
Continue reading(1) Lefties scream. (2) Tillis & McCrory cave. (3) Return to Step One.
A requirement for voters to show ID at the polls, and special licensing for non-citizens would appear to be no-brainers for the state GOP after winning an overwhelming majority
Continue readingSTILL WAITING FOR THAT CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION: NC, national GOP throwing limited government under the bus
In 2010, we were told a conservative revolution was sweeping North Carolina AND the country. In 2012, we were told conservatism was on the rise — with the election of
Continue readingHOT lanes have taxpayers hot under the collar
North Carolina legislators seriously talked up tolls on I-95 in 2011 and 2012, but that idea got shot down by Renee Ellmers, Mike McIntyre, a number of
Continue readingKudos to Goolsby on Racial Justice Act
While the state House leadership is talking about watering stuff down, slowing things down, appeasing the Democrats to “get stuff done,” at least one state Senator is
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