Reports are out that our senior US senator has joined fellow Republicans McCain of Arizona, Flake of Arizona, and Coburn of Oklahoma in sponsoring a bill to make significant changes
Continue readingIn 2013, Gov. Pat McCrory lost a veto fight with the legislature over the use of E-Verify for checking citizenship of workers in North Carolina. Late last week, some Republican
Continue readingYou expel CO² every time you exhale. It’s found in your sodas and beer. It’s found in baking soda. The word is that that about the only risks related to
Continue readingI wanted to be wrong about Mark Harris. My first thought — when the Charlotte pastor filed for US Senate — was that he was a plant, a stalking horse,
Continue readingThere is still a lot of grumbling out there among conservatives in the wake of the recently completed primaries. An effort is alive to stage a conservative write-in effort for
Continue readingHmmm. Misleading information in the N&O. I know, I know. What else is new? But today’s edition really takes the cake. The headline on the lead story this morning on
Continue readingEver wonder why so few elected officials question the actions of their party leaders or the actions of their respective chambers? Ever wonder why politicians spend SO MUCH time fundraising?
Continue readingThis week the Republican majority on Jones Street slapped an excise tax on the sale of e-cigarettes. (That’s ON TOP of the sales tax already collected.) In the Senate, the
Continue readingIn 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 readingUS 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
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