John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and the rest of the House GOP leadership have pretty much stomped out the last vestiges of the GOP’s claim to being the party
Continue readingI’m on several politically-flavored email lists, where political junkies bat around the issues and the inside scoop on elections. Participants include former and current elected officials, business leaders, current and
Continue readingThe elites in government, media and academia are finally coming around to what we’ve known about ObamaCare for years now: Corporate financial chiefs say they expect to
Continue readingIt looks as if some big donors are calling in some chits with the Tillis for Senate campaign. Speaker Thom appeared before the NC Farm Bureau Monday to urge
Continue readingCary physician Greg Brannon, Tea Party favorite and one of the leading contenders for the GOP nomination for US Senate, told a Moore County audience
Continue readingSome time back, we wrote about the high levels of affection Thom Tillis’ legislative staff was showing some Jones Street lobbyists. Now, it appears some lobbyists are
Continue readingWhen you’ve spent 40 years inside the state bureaucracy, it’s understandable that your world-view might be a little disjointed. DPI secretary June Atkinson never ceases to
Continue readingMoore County’s Richard Morgan set the standard for hard-nosed vindictive political tactics during his tenure in the NC House. If a legislator dared to “cross” him, Morgan would personally seek
Continue readingWake County Republican Frank Roche has launched a web site promoting his 2014 primary challenge to incumbent congresswoman Renee Ellmers. You may remember Roche from his 2010 primary bid
Continue readingUntil now, it’s been easy to draw comparisons between the 2014 US Senate GOP primary in North Carolina and the 2010 Kentucky GOP Senate primary, featuring a
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