Are Bill Barber & The NCDP writing N&O headlines, now?
Hmmm. 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
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Murray-Ryan budget deal: selling us a bill of goods
We’ve got 535 voting members of Congress. Yet. this “bi-partisan”, “disaster-averting” budget deal announced yesterday got hammered out in private talks between Senate Budget Committee chairman Patty Murray and House
Continue readingThe Carolina Way: Speech is Free (only for leftists)
Fifty years ago, The University of North Carolina passed a Speaker Ban to clamp down on Marxist interlopers trying to poison the young skulls of mush matriculating in Chapel Hill.
Continue readingMoral Monday meets the Moore County School Board
It’s a sad statement about the current state of public education when the person responsible for administering our local school system has such a poor grasp on reality. Moore County
Continue readingThe state budget impasse: It’s ALL Pat’s fault !!!
It’s amazing. Bill Barber, Chris Fitzsimon, and their echo chambers at McClatchy and WRAL have been trying to sell us that a hard-right revolution is sweeping through Raleigh — making
Continue readingContinuing Resolution: Leadership #FAIL for GOP in Raleigh
The NCGOP has supermajorities in both chambers of the General Assembly. The Democrats can’t stop a thing. (They’re all out in the lobby getting ziptied with Bill Barber.) The NCGOP
Continue readingNC Rural Center: Quick cash from US to politicos and their powerful friends
I am beside myself. TWO DAYS IN A ROW we’re getting real reporting from McClatchy-Raleigh. (It’s interesting that they are finally noticing The Rural Center 26 years after its establishment
Continue readingExposing NC Rural Center for the money pit it is
I am not always Mr. Negative (as some folks like to claim). I’ll hand out kudos to folks who do good things. In this case — surprise, surprise
Continue readingBudget brouhaha: NCGOP leaders accepting Dem premise we have revenue, not spending problem?
The GOP majority on Jones Street has passed budget packages. The House and Senate versions are both in the ballpark of $20.6 billion (hundreds of millions higher than Bev Perdue’s
Continue readingToll Roads: We said ‘No, thanks.’ Speaker Thom & co. gave them to us anyway.
Talk about cojones. chutzpah. BIG ONES. Last weekend, delegates to the NCGOP state convention spoke out loud and clear against HOT lanes, toll roads, and anything else of that
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