When is a tax cut NOT REALLY a tax cut?
Answer: When you lower the rate, but monkey with the value of what is getting taxed. This kind of thing happens a lot at the local level. Your county
Continue reading#NCGOP: All the way with A.J.?
Claude Pope isn’t running again for state chairman. All kinds of establishment types have fallen behind somebody named Craig Collins to replace him. Somebody named Hasan Harnett is also seeking
Continue readingNC-02: Don’t believe the hype.
You seriously need to take Chuck D and Flavor Flav’s advice regarding those TV ads hyping “conservative champion” Renee Ellmers. They’re sponsored by American Action Network — a gaggle of pro-amnesty
Continue reading#ncga: Hager? Hager? Hager? Anyone?
Mike Hager came into office as majority leader with such promise. He spent the last session as majority whip. Hager was the architect of sweeping legislation that would have wiped
Continue readingNCGOP: The return of Wayne King?
Raleigh-based sources familiar with the inner workings of the NCGOP tell me that a group of leaders — including state House majority leader Mike Hager — are lobbying former party
Continue reading#NCGA: Jones Street mafia targeting Civitas, Locke & US ????
Apparently, General Maximus has unleashed hell upon the powers-that-be within the North Carolina General Assembly. From what I hear, the common folks beyond the beltline DID NOT vote in a Republican
Continue readingClub For Growth: Foxx, Meadows, Jones MOST conservative NCGOPers in House for 2014
Each year, you have all kinds of groups ranking members of Congress according to their voting records. The Club For Growth, for instance, champions the concepts of limited government and
Continue reading#ncgop: Pope OUT, MCHenry ally IN?
Sources tell me that members of the NCGOP Executive Committee were informed via email this morning that current state party chairman Claude Pope will not be seeking another term in
Continue reading#ncga: Some common sense on the gas tax, NC Competes
House speaker Tim Moore and the rest of the GOP leadership in Raleigh are crowing about how much better off we’ll be now that they’ve approved an increase in the
Continue reading#ncga: GOP leaders passing stuff with Democrat votes
In Washington, House speaker John Boehner has shown he has no issue with pushing legislation that flies in the face of the GOP platform and needs Democrat votes in order
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