#ncpol: The votes that matter
It’s campaign time. Republican primary voters are getting bombarded with all kinds of propaganda about how Politician X is a ”conservative warrior” who has voted to repeal ObamaCare, cut taxes,
Continue readingDallas, Dick & Bernie: The (Really) Odd Cou — um, Trio
Yesterday, we heard about how our senior, nominally Republican, US senator may have a fetish for crusty New England socialists. Today we get this over the email: Let me check
Continue reading#ncsen: Burr prefers Bernie over Ted? (That’s what the AP says.)
Dick Burr has a reputation for not being the brightest bulb in the pack. Back during the financial crisis, he took some heat for advising people to go to the
Continue readingJoCo leaders reject CSX / State of NC land grab. (Psst – CSX didn’t need govt $$$ or heavy-handedness in OH or PA deals.)
We’re told, in a bipartisan fashion, by the ruling class that you have to hand out money and favors in order to get business to commit to doing business in
Continue reading#ncpol: Polling, press releases & pabulum. N&O laziness extends from NC-02 over to NC-07.
Young Mr. Campbell has apparently learned well from Jedi master Rob. *Why bother making calls and digging when someone has already pretty much written the story for you?* “Rep. Rouzer:
Continue readingTrump & ‘F-You Politics’
In 1988, as a wide-eyed, bushy-tailed College Republican, I was marching along with the Bush For President bandwagon. He had been my hero’s right-hand man for eight years. Surely, he’d
Continue reading#ncpol Dazed & Confused & Lazy: Old Man Rob takes on the NC-02 race
For some reason, Rob Christensen is heralded as some wise oracle of North Carolina politics. I guess it’s because he’s been around so long. But does hanging around for a
Continue reading#ncga: smoke, mirrors, Jones Street and the treasurer’s office
There is an eye-opening report out from the highly-respected, free market-oriented Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Apparently, something may be rotten in Princess Janet’s kingdom: […] Real state spending per
Continue reading#ncpol NC-07: Rouzer applauds, then runs from CSX’s JoCo land grab
It should not come as a shock to anyone that a politician (1) takes a position, and then (2) runs like hell from it. But doing it so blatantly –
Continue reading#ncga: A conservative direction? (THAT is not what the numbers tell us.)
If you believe the GOPe campaign rhetoric, they’ve got our state headed in a “conservative direction.” *Wow. That sounds great. We must be cutting taxes and the size of government
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