An audience with “The Pope”
Most people who want an audience with The Pope on Easter weekend have to go to Rome. I got mine at the Moore County GOP convention this
Continue readingMost people who want an audience with The Pope on Easter weekend have to go to Rome. I got mine at the Moore County GOP convention this
Continue readingAs one of the lucky souls blessed to be “represented” by Miss Harnett County, I’ve had a feeling she’s developed some political ambitions. It’s been pretty clear
Continue readingJohn Frank, dean of McClatchy’s school of creative writing, is back from sabbatical with newly-sharpened crayons — ready to dazzle us with even more preposterous portside pontification
Continue readingLast 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
Continue readingIt’s pretty clear that folks across the country — as well as in the Carolinas — are still smarting from the heavy-handed, top-down, DC-centric management of the 2012
Continue readingWe’re in the middle of a godawful economic quagmire. Record unemployment. Increased regulation. Anemic economic growth. An impending economic disaster called ObamaCare. The expiration of lower federal income
Continue readingState 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 readingGuest 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 readingA 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 readingIn 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
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