Basking in the warm glow of all of this, um, ”party loyalty”
Establishment folks are browbeating those of us in the grassroots to toe the party line. Send Kay Hagan home. That’s what’s important. Even if you have to hold your nose
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#NCSEN: Inside the Tillis fundraising juggernaut
I had an interesting conversation a couple of nights ago with an old friend of mine who lives on the North Carolina coast. He’s a successful businessman with a BIG
Continue reading#NCSEN: polls agree (1) Brannon & Tillis lead GOP pack, and (2) roughly 50 % of primary voters undecided
The mainstream media and the political establishment are trying to tell us that state House speaker Thom Tillis is all but nominated to take on Kay Hagan in November. Public
Continue readingTHE Pope: It’s ALL The Haymaker’s fault!
A reader forwarded to us an email conversation they had with NCGOP chairman Claude Pope. (Of course, we came up.) The reader asked THE Pope about reports on our site
Continue reading#NCSEN: Lobbyists lining up, placing bets on Hagan, Tillis
Lots of folks are trying to compare this year’s US Senate race with Kentucky’s 2010 contest. But political old-timers like myself can see some similarities to North Carolina’s 1984 contest
Continue readingBeing Bi-partisan: offering Thom a helping hand
We’ve already raised questions about Speaker Thom, his movie contributions, the beer distributor bucks, and his ties to a certain well-connected Massachusetts law firm. We found a few more areas
Continue reading#NCSEN: Wrong on the money
Carter Wrenn — Richard Morgan’s pre-weight loss doppelganger — has surfaced like Captain Ahab’s white whale to do a wee bit of the GOP establishment’s dirty work in a post
Continue readingOmnibus? More like Omni-BUST!
I went back in the Google time machine and found some comments from GOP leaders shortly after the Tea Party put them back in charge of the US House of
Continue readingThe NC State Bar: Keeping lawyers liberal
Every day I come across more evidence that we have too frickin’ many lawyers gracing the surface of our beautiful planet and using up valuable oxygen. Take our state’s top
Continue readingThe ObamaCare “study”: stoves are hot, ice is cold, socialism is BAD
Setting up a commission or a committee to “study” an issue is a great way for politicians to show they “care” –without actually doing anything substantive. “Fast and Furious,” anyone?
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