#NCSEN: A conservative write-in campaign?
In 2006, Thom Tillis ousted fellow Republican and incumbent John Rhodes in a nasty primary fight for a Mecklenburg County state House seat. In 2014, Rhodes COULD end up making
Continue reading#NCSEN: A sock puppet fight over climate change
US Senator Kay Hagan (D- NC NY) — affectionately known in many of these parts as Chuck Schumer’s Sock Puppet™– lashed out at GOP nominee Thom Tillis — recently promoted to
Continue reading#NCGA: Skip Stam endorses toll roads
State House speaker Pro Tem Skip Stam has posted an endorsement of toll roads on his official site — which still IDs him as the “North Carolina House Republican Leader”.
Continue reading#NCGA: House GOP’s anti-tax cred up in smoke with e-cigarette vote
There was a time when the GOP was recognized as the group who would cut your taxes, shrink government, and back the bureaucracy off of your case. Well, it’s funny
Continue readingStrach: state elections board gets investigation help. Hartsell probe STILL pending.
It appears the NC State Board of Elections is getting some investigative assistance. It’s a good thing: they’ve got a quarter million pending cases that need to be worked. State
Continue readingThe VA: a big-govt spawned travesty, not a partisan political scandal
The Department of Veterans Affairs — formerly the Veterans Administration — started out with a noble mission: Taking care of those who sacrificed for our country. It has become what
Continue readingEdu-crats keep pumping out skulls-of-mush. Woe unto our state and nation.
It’s graduation season. Public and private schools across the country are turning out freshly-indoctrinated young people into the workforce. I had the chance to encounter one of these young people
Continue reading#NCGA: Senate weathers leftist disinformation, House reticence and wisely lifts fracking moratorium
We’re often quite hard on the honorables on Raleigh’s Jones Street. It actually gives us some pleasure to cheer them for doing something sensible. The Democrats, howling leftist activists, and
Continue reading#NCSEN: Are you ready for some foo — um, RACEBAITING ????
I swear, I truly believe this year’s Senate race will set a new world record for face-palms and the use of the #smh hashtag. The Republican establishment is running like
Continue readingMcCrory moving forward on $$$ for jobs even as new study pooh-poohs idea
In Raleigh, the McCrory Department of Commerce is doing quite a bit of cheerleading for special taxpayer-provided incentives to lure business to North Carolina. We’ve registered our concerns previously about
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