Quite a few twenty-somethings in North Carolina politics make pilgrimages to Raleigh with visions of making it big QUICK. Patrick McHenry, for instance, got elected to the North Carolina House
Continue readingThose of you in Haywood County who have been PNGed by the NCGOP — those of you who have been threatened with losing your party position for daring to comment
Continue readingJesse Helms was arguably the man who made being conservative AND Republican cool in North Carolina. His televised editorials opened a ton of eyes and stimulated a lot of deep
Continue readingRepublicans in Raleigh are singing the praises of themselves for great big “tax cuts.” That’s a good thing to allow people to keep more of their hard-earned money. But politicians
Continue readingFor the longest time, we were treated in the pages of The N&O to Colon Campbell’s peculiar obsession with toilets. HB2 and trannies in the ladies room made its way
Continue readingHe’s done stuff like this before. But our state’s really BIG bundle of, um, “joy” is exporting his socialist-stepin-fetchit act to the national stage: A disturbing pattern has emerged since
Continue readingAlleged conservative godfather Art Pope is trying to tell us it’s a bad idea to write off Mitch McConnell and the boys in DC: […] The White House has been
Continue readingReports of conservative activists in western North Carolina being allegedly persecuted and harassed over “party disloyalty” for the offense of criticizing the ruling NCGOP junta in Raleigh have us thinking.
Continue readingIt’s easy to talk big and tough about cutting stuff when you KNOW your grand-standing is going to get vetoed by the president. But it’s a whole new ballgame —
Continue readingWe heard earlier from Rand Paul about his disgust over his colleagues’s ObamaCare hijinks. Now comes word, via The Wall Street Journal, that Senate Republicans are A-OKAY with the taxes
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