Politics are normally not all that exciting here in staid, conservative Moore County. We’re a yellow-dog Republican county. Cocktail parties and rounds of golf tend to trump passionate political debate.
Continue readingThose scaredy-cats just don’t give up, do they? The state Senate has overridden Gov. Pat’s veto of H405 — The Property Protection Act. Opponents — including the guv — attacked
Continue readingRecruiting Rs instead of conservatives is a key ingredient to giving you the mess we have in the lower chamber on Jones Street. Republicans rose to power in this state
Continue readingThe drivebys — when not cooing over “Caitlyn” Jenner — have been aflutter about Gov. Pat’s veto of the bill that would have allowed magistrates who object to gay marriage the
Continue readingWe’ve written previously about the travesty that is the fast-tracking of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The details are classified. Barry Obama gets all kinds of new powers that we can’t
Continue readingThat’s the word I am hearing from various moles within the Puzzle Palace on Jones Street. As dedicated readers of this site know, senator Buck Newton of Wilson will be
Continue readingPat McCrory loves to label himself an “Eisenhower Republican.” Dwight Eisenhower was a great military leader who — as president — regularly knocked heads with the conservative base of his
Continue readingWell, it appears the scaredy-cats on Jones Street force-fed Gov. Pat another one of his vetoes. This one was the guv’s veto of a bill allowing magistrates the ability to
Continue readingIt’s no secret that Walter Jones irritates the political establishment. The GOPe tried to get him in the 2014 primary. Now, it appears they’re trying again with a new face:
Continue readingThe Democrats have come after Wilson’s Buck Newton hard. In 2010, they slandered him as a drug dealer. (Newton went on to knock off a long-time incumbent Democrat senator.) In 2012, his Democrat
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