The folly of the political listening tour
Hillary Clinton made the political listening tour a “trendy” thing in 1999 — the run up to her 2000 US Senate campaign — and 2007 — prior to her 2008
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GOPers seeking US Senate nod making personnel moves
House speaker Thom Tillis has added Kim Canady to his campaign team. Until recently, Canady was the NCGOP’s political director who played a leading role in intra-party controversies in Craven,
Continue readingVirginia Foxx? “Brainwashed.” Richard Burr? Still “dumb.” Ellmers? Whatever John & Eric Want
Just like Bono & U2 — I still haven’t found what I’m looking for. An elected conservative leader from North Carolina, that is. I’ve been getting whiplash keeping track of
Continue readingCounting is HARD.
McClatchy-Raleigh treated us to this fair & balanced headline today: Protestors cry shame on NC’s hands-off policy on new health law. I see there are no quotes around any
Continue readingRandolph County book ban brouhaha sheds light on leftist indoctrination in public education
McClatchy and their comrades are up in arms about the Randolph County school board daring to exert some sort of local control over public education. Heck. Even Russian TV and
Continue readingMcClatchy now doing HR work for DHHS?
I’m generally not one to argue with scrutinizing the government bureaucracy. However, it DOES tick me off when our lazy, shiftless legacy media monopoly runs all of these “horror stories”
Continue readingSenate 2014: Has Burr signed on to Theam Tillis?
Boy, this establishment crowd is starting to make us look quite prescient. Speaker senator (spenator?) Thom Tillis has hired consultant Paul Shumaker to run his campaign for the 2014
Continue readingMark Harris: Is He A Todd Akin-in-the-makin’ ?
By now, politics-watchers are well familiar with the story of Todd Akin, the GOP challenger to Missouri senator Claire McCaskill (D) in 2012. Akin was a solidly conservative member of
Continue readingPiling on Dr. Wos
Make no mistake — we are NOT exactly “fans” of the welfare state here. In our opinion, the NC Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) could collapse into a
Continue readingIn Pinehurst, the shakedown apparently lives on
I’ve been hit with a lot of background spin about how the days of the Pinehurst Village Council delegating everything to the bureaucrats and rubber-stamping whatever the bureaucrats at Village
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