We’ve written extensively about this heightened environment of influence-buying in American politics. Over in the Third Congressional District GOP primary, we’ve got a clear example of deep-pocketed influence-peddlers in DC
Continue readingWell, The N&O has broken open a rather troubling story involving the governor, some of his big donors, and favors they may have received from the state bureaucracy (allegedly thanks
Continue readingPinehurst voters are heading to the polls Tuesday to fill the mayor’s seat and two council seats. Incumbent mayor Nancy Fiorillo has three challengers trying to replace her. One of
Continue readingAll of the DC-NY conservative intelligentsia are swooning and cooing over the rise of Paul Ryan to the speakership of the US House. I have never understood the conservative fascination
Continue readingHe was an outspoken critic of House leadership. Then-speaker Thom Tillis found him a primary opponent and helped knock him out of the House. Theam Thillis may have knocked Robert
Continue readingAnd why not? He’s got five years before he faces the voters again. *Forget those silly campaign promises!* Our US Senate delegation split on the vote to jack up federal
Continue readingJohn F-in’ Kerry (a/k/a Lurch, who also — if you didn’t know — served in Vietnam) — is our nation’s secretary of state. His job is to carry out the
Continue readingNorth Carolina Republicans Robert Pittenger and Patrick McHenry were TWO of the seventy-nine Republicans who joined with ALL of the Democrats in the House to pass the debt-increasing, budget-busting deal
Continue readingYou never would have imagined a pampered, latte-sipping, Prius-driving, pale-faced suburban princess like Tricia Cotham being in solidarity with Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Chuck D, Flava Flav, and that
Continue readingIt was a nasty piece of government waste and cronyism. It needed to go. Its charter expired on June 30. It WAS dead. But congressional Democrats — and some Republicans
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