McClatchy’s John Frank is doing his best to play arbiter and peacemaker among Raleigh Republicans. And we thank him for it. He’s got a piece out about internal bickering among
Continue readingViewers in my neck of the woods are getting peppered with TV ads telling us HOW GREAT Kay Hagan is doing in DC. They are apparently being produced
Continue readingI am sensing a pattern here : Beaufort, Craven, Davidson. (You folks in Edgecombe, Forsyth, Franklin, Granville and Guilford better get ready.) Controversy between a county GOP organization
Continue readingI saw a commercial on TV the other morning that nearly made me spew my Cheerios. Some vaguely-named council or coalition was running an ad praising US
Continue readingThe SBI has been horribly mismanaged. The state crime lab has botched case after case after case. The feds had to come in and prosecute cases against Mike
Continue readingSome Davidson County GOP leaders are telling me they see the hand of Speaker Thom Tillis and Raleigh-based GOP operatives involved in the process to fill an
Continue readingLicense checkpoints by local police officers are getting a lot of attention these days. We had an incident in Brunswick County where deputies reportedly fired into oncoming traffic at a
Continue readingWe normally don’t see eye-to-eye with State Employees Association director Dana Cope, but his recent activities certainly have us intrigued. Cope has lashed out against the zip-tied rabble erroneously named
Continue readingIt’s been the conventional wisdom that State House Speaker Thom Tillis was national Republicans’ odds-on favorite to take on incumbent Democrat US Senator Kay Hagan in November
Continue readingAn awful lot of us on the right worked hard to get Pat McCrory into the governor’s mansion in Raleigh. There was a lot of excitement in 2012 about the
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