Is the BlueprintNC brouhaha REALLY all that big of a deal?
It’s been fun watching all of the sputtering and posturing about the strategy memo reportedly circulated by the leadership of a lefty group calling itself BluePrintNC. The
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Gov. Pat, a conservative? (Cue the video)
A loyal reader of this site forwarded me a recently-published piece in National Review by John Hood, president of the Raleigh-based John Locke Foundation. Hood’s piece, about conservatism “thriving”
Continue readingThose Congress rankings and the distortion of the term “conservative”
Well, every year groups from the ADA to the ACU to National Journal to The Club For Growth release ideological rankings of the 535 voting members
Continue readingReading the tea leaves on Gov. Pat’s personnel moves
A recent personnel shuffle at NCDOT caught my attention. According to media reports, Deputy DOT secretary for transit Paul Morris was “removed” by newly-appointed DOT secretary Tony
Continue readingMcCrory “undefined”? Nope. We’ve got him figured out.
McClatchy seems to be quite puzzled by the mystery that is Pat McCrory. Is he “the centrist mayor of North Carolina’s largest city who campaigned as someone able to
Continue readingBetter Late Than Never to The ObamaCare Fight
Gov. Pat apparently has seen the light (or, more likely, the statewide polling or the whip counts in the state House) and come over from the dark side. Until today,
Continue readingMSM: WAANH!! Pat won’t talk to us!
The remnants of the mainstream media in The Tar Heel State are throwing a bit of a tantrum. The state’s new GOP governor and his staff are NOT
Continue readingUgly Power Grabs vs. PRETTY ONES
Our local paper — the first and only lesbian-owned and -operated thrice weekly Nobel Prize-nominated community paper in The Carolinas — is beside itself about those dastardly Republicans
Continue readingMainstream media continues with John Skvarla’s colonoscopy
Do you remember the name of Bev Perdue’s DENR secretary? His name was Dee Freeman. Search for him on Google, and you get a total of TWO mainstream media stories
Continue readingThe N&O’s John Frank: ObamaCare’s Gunga Din
Gunga Din was immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in literature — and later in movies. He was a poor, hapless, shuffling, kowtowing, water-carrying man-servant to some British soldiers in India. The
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