Campaign 2012: The art of distraction
When you mess up — the perfect way to delay or avoid the repercussions is to change the subject. We are seeing that tactic playing out rather nicely
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shedding some light on cops & hoodies
The hubbub over this shooting case in Florida has created some new spin about black men being unfairly targeted because they are wearing hooded sweatshirts (AKA “hoodies.”) A friend of
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More fracking nonsense
Two North Carolina state House Republicans are throwing in with the fact-less, scare-tactic left on fracking. The N&O dutifully reports on opposition research dug up by its masters
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Grading McCrory’s “education plan”
I teach at the community college level — part-time — so I get to see, up-close and personal, a lot of the end-product of North Carolina’s K-12
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John Locke’s Hood misrepresents Amendment One
First it was Renee Ellmers. Now, it’s John Locke Foundation president John Hood. We’ve had a mini-outbreak of alleged conservative leaders throwing in with the left to
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Campaign 2012: Big lead for McCrory against each of top three Dems in Civitas poll
The right-leaning, Raleigh-based Civitas Institute has released polling apparently showing Republican Pat McCrory in the driver’s seat for the 2012 race for NC governor. (Remember, it
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Raleigh pol wants reserved spots, free electricity for tin-can smartcars
Reserved parking spots get abused ALL the time. I see plenty of people with handicapped parking passes looking pretty able-bodied as they stroll the short distance from
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Boom Boom’s double-standard
Flash back to 1996. DPI Secretary Bobby “Boom Boom” Etheridge was running for Congress against freshman Republican incumbent David Funderburk in North Carolina’s Second congressional district. We all know
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NC Campaign 2012: Our stupid, biased mainstream news media
We’ve got record unemployment, an economy in the tank, underperforming public schools, crime problems, and rampant corruption in Raleigh. The mainstream media gets all three main Democrat gubernatorial candidates together,
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Boom Boom is not happy: UNDECIDED expanding lead in Dem primary for NC Gov
Boom Boom is NOT HAPPY. This guy “Undecided” is really coming on like gangbusters in the Democrat primary for North Carolina governor. Public Policy Polling, a Democrat firm from Durham,
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