Ex Parte time: As The (Berger) World Turns
It’s hard to watch – or discuss, for that matter — Republican power politics in Raleigh these days without bringing up lawyers or antics worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster script.
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David Rouzer: STILL Congress’s Wizard of Wall Street
He’s been a bureaucrat, a congressional staffer, a lobbyist, and a state senator. But that background hasn’t stopped congressman David Rouzer (R-NC) from becoming one of Capitol Hill’s most successful
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It’s Phil Berger’s World. We’re just allowed (for a price) to live in it.
“Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” was a popular game making the rounds of pop culture some years back. The object was to take any random individual or event or object
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How many times will we keep falling for this *government-shutdown* cliffhanger ?
Never mind that a budget is the leading constitutional responsibility for Congress. Never mind that a deadline for passing a budget comes at the same time(s) every year. Never mind
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Will The Jones Street Mob maintain its iron grip on state GOP?
We shall see. The state Republican Party is in the midst of updating and revising its primary governing document — The Plan of Organization (PoO). We’ve talked with quite
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Thom Tillis STILL struggling with the truth about his own schooling
North Carolinians aren’t as worried as you’d think about their politicians possessing college degrees. In fact, neither of our US senators serving from 1993 to 1999 had earned college degrees
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No Labels (and no soup) for Thom Tillis
Thomas Roland Tillis — US senator and brother to Thomas Richard Tillis, former Tennessee legislator who reportedly had his desk chair peed upon – is what folks around these parts
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Report: NC House (R) from Cabarrus sought job with Stein while mulling over veto vote
Charlotte media has uncovered an example of the kind of thing we’ve been trying to tell you about for years: A Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
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Careening recklessly toward authoritarianism
Vote *Red.* Yep. That’s the slogan we got bombarded with during the recently completed election. The color red has long been associated with communism. Is that where the GOP hierarchy
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Rush was Right: politics DOES reward mediocrity, abject failure.
That’s one of the many things I took from his many over-the-air sermons. As an example, The Great One cited former President Jimmy Carter. Carter was hands-down the biggest disaster
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