State GOP vice-chairman Joyce Krawiec’s appointment to an unexpired state Senate seat from Forsythe County has created a job vacancy within the party hierarchy. Krawiec’s move to the Senate meant
Continue readingI’m in the Raleigh media market. We’ve just now started seeing Thom Tillis’ TV ad that the mainstream media has been cooing about for weeks. In the ad, the speaker
Continue readingTeacher pay and other education spending are supposed to dominate the upcoming short session at the General Assembly. For months, we’ve been pounded by stories like this one – mainly
Continue readingI worked on Capitol Hill for the late Senator Jesse Helms during his early-90s campaign to defund The National Endowment For The Arts. Leftists lashed out at him claiming that
Continue readingI am beside myself. TWO DAYS IN A ROW we’re getting real reporting from McClatchy-Raleigh. (It’s interesting that they are finally noticing The Rural Center 26 years after its establishment
Continue readingBrace yourselves, folks. Our nation is getting sold down the river once again by our elected “leaders.” First, it was the DC-generated housing / financial sector crisis.
Continue readingThe GOP majority on Jones Street has passed budget packages. The House and Senate versions are both in the ballpark of $20.6 billion (hundreds of millions higher than Bev Perdue’s
Continue readingI’ve become a big fan of the work of British-born Harvard economist Niall Ferguson. Ferguson, a disciple of former British PM Margaret Thatcher, has put together scores
Continue readingThe resignation of Moore County commissioner Craig Kennedy, a few weeks back, has added a little bit of drama to Moore County politics. Kennedy, in 2010, came out of
Continue readingWe’re getting earth-shattering, heart-breaking, and sometimes infuriating details about the travesties that occurred at our embassy in Benghazi, Libya last year. Our embassy — sovereign US territory —
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