#NCGA: A Common Core food fight?
Want to send blood pressure readings through the roof? Mention those two magical C-words among a crowd of people and stand back to watch the ensuing fireworks. Common Core is
Continue reading#NCSEN: ObamaCare is BAD because — um, (WHA…????)
Uncle Karl and American Crossroads GPS have gone to bat for Speaker Thom again. They’re plastering the state’s airwaves with an ad blasting Kay Hagan’s support of ObamaCare. The ad
Continue reading#NCSEN: Pulling out the race card
We’ve had that rotund, jheri-curled oaf Bill Barber out there for months hollering about the white Republicans on Jones Street. Kay Hagan took Cory Booker — the New Jersey Democrat
Continue readingNC-08: Despite losing his patron, Hudson looking to MOVE UP in House
PACs associated with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) spent big to get Richard Hudson through the 2012 GOP primary and general elections. (Cantor, as you know, got upended last week
Continue readingNC-06’s Berger: Being Effective = Backing Boehner?
It’s really frustrating when Republican candidates say really dumb things that allow Democrats to come out sounding down-right sensible. Case in point: Rockingham County prosecutor Phil Berger, Jr., who is
Continue readingNC-02: Ellmers THE ONLY NCGOPer to back welfare for illegal immigrants
Renee Ellmers is the luckiest broad in the Milky Way galaxy. She would be little more than a political footnote if not for this video. In 2012, redistricting lagged for so
Continue readingGOP hasn’t learned ONE THING from Cantor primary loss
House Majority leader Eric Cantor spent years running around the country meddling in other people’s primaries. He cheerleaded for more spending and more debt, poo-pooed the repeal of ObamaCare, and promoted amnesty
Continue readingComing Soon To A Theater Near You: THE BIG ‘DOUBLE-CROSS’
Wilmington-area legislators and movie industry types are pretty mad. It looks like incentives for the film industry are not going to survive the state House. These folks REALLY thought they
Continue reading#NCGA: The tug-of-war over the SBI
A move is afoot on Jones Street to consolidate state law enforcement in the executive branch. In many states, you have one centralized state police force. In North Carolina, it
Continue readingRobRielle, N&O joining MSNBC on road to irrelevance
Just when you think he can’t deliver a bigger face-palm moment, the reporter who: (1) made history by being physically removed from an NCGOP convention, (2) failed to notice Dennis
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