by Thomas Mills | Oct 22, 2023 | Politics
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by Thomas Mills | Oct 13, 2023 | Editor's Blog
Yesterday, Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson got to play governor. With the real governor, Roy Cooper, out of the country, Robinson declared a day of prayer and week of solidarity with Israel in the wake of the Hamas attacks. The charade was part of an ongoing attempt...
by Alexander H. Jones | Oct 12, 2023 | Politics |
Between 1984 and 2008, North Carolina Democrats never received more than 42% of the vote in a presidential election. Even when Southerner Bill Clinton nearly won the state in 1992, he garnered exactly that number, and the reason that George H.W. Bush didn’t...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 11, 2023 | Editor's Blog |
I’ve been dismayed to see so many organizations either blaming Israel for the Hamas attack or cheering the terrorists who perpetrated it. Most of the groups are led by young people, many in university settings. Their simplistic view of the situation ignores the...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 9, 2023 | Editor's Blog |
PoliticsNC stands with Israel, unequivocally. Hamas terrorists killed hundreds of Israeli civilians including more than 250 people at a music festival. They went door-to-door killing and kidnapping Israeli families, including children and elderly people. There’s...
by Paul Stam | Oct 6, 2023 | Politics
Did you know that at least 1,600 Ukrainian refugees have settled in North Carolina since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.[1] The last three days of September Congress passed a 45 day stop gap appropriation with no money for Ukraine. Votes are...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 6, 2023 | Editor's Blog |
I can’t stop watching Republicans and conservatives react to McCarthy going down in flames and Trump solidifying his position as front runner. Conservative pundits continue to blame Democrats for the Speakerless House and fantasizing about how they’ll regret their...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 4, 2023 | Editor's Blog |
Watching angry Republicans blame Democrats for their woes has made my week. To hear them tell it, Democrats had the responsibility to save Kevin McCarthy. One conservative pundit even blamed Democrats for not fielding a candidate who could beat Matt Gaetz without ever...
by Alexander H. Jones | Oct 3, 2023 | Politics |
A question I’ve been contemplating lately is whether Mark Robinson will ever become so drenched in unadulterated strangeness that it begins to tarnish his Republican allure. Hate, manifestly, is not disqualifying for North Carolina Republicans. After all, the...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 2, 2023 | Editor's Blog |
This weekend, the House narrowly averted a government shutdown after being held hostage by a group of extremist Members of Congress known as the Chaos Caucus. Two members, Dan Bishop and Greg Murphy, are from North Carolina. The Wall Street Journal, no bastion of...
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