by Thomas Mills | Aug 5, 2021 | coronavirus, Editor's Blog |
When I was a kid, I had an imaginary friend named Mo-mo. Every time I did something wrong, like drawing on furniture, I told my parents that Mo-mo did it. That Mo-mo was a bad actor and I was just a victim of his poor choices. It seems the conservative White people...
by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 4, 2021 | Politics |
“We support equal opportunity, not equal outcomes,” North Carolina Republicans like to say. What they really mean is that they support school vouchers and charter schools, not a social safety net. It’s that simple. But rather than dismiss their...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 4, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
First, I want to give credit to Roy Cooper and Mandy Cohen for managing the pandemic in North Carolina. Our state has done far better controlling the spread of the virus than our neighbors, particularly those to the South. The administration has made tough decisions...
by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 3, 2021 | Politics |
To a naive soul, it might seem that Madison Cawthorn fears for his reelection. The Western North Carolina showman was recently down in Florida attending a fundraiser in his own honor to which donors must have contributed $50,000 for the privilege of seeing him in the...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 3, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
The Carolina Journal yesterday published a cartoon slamming Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, the two Republicans on the Congressional Commission to investigate January 6. The artist portrays Kinzinger and Cheney as ventriloquist dolls sitting on Nancy Pelosi’s...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 2, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
This week, we started edging back into COVID panic again. Some places started masking up again. One friend said an organization with which he works is considering cancelling or delaying a retreat. I think it’s all alarmism, driven largely by bad headlines and spiking...
by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 2, 2021 | Politics |
In a country where conservatives have long been suspicious of centralized institutions, the military has been a bastion of trust. Going to war for America is considered the apogee of loyalty, courage, and virtue, so when our armed forces make a foray into new cultural...
by Thomas Mills | Jul 30, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
Yesterday, Governor Roy Cooper angered conservatives by not imposing a mask mandate. Instead, he left decisions up to local authorities and business owners as to whether or not to require masks. In doing so, Cooper stripped away a conservative outrage platform,...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 29, 2021 | Politics |
For 30 years, Jesse Helms loomed over North Carolina politics like a Confederate statue. “Senator No” tied with his fellow racist demagogue Furnifold Simmons for the longest tenure of any Senator elected from the Old North State. Since he departed the...
by Thomas Mills | Jul 28, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
I’m back from Sweden. It was a great trip. I learned quite a bit and look forward to going back to learn more. The first lesson I learned is that magnesium gel caps explode under pressure. They cover everything in a white pasty substance that’s hard to get out...
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