by Paul Stam | Jan 19, 2023 | Politics |
The N.C. Supreme Court doesn’t like them. Dan Blue, State Senate Minority Leader, doesn’t like them. Left wing media do not like them. Their beef is that Republicans got 60% of the seats, 30 out of 50, while only receiving 59% of the votes of those who voted...
by Paul Stam | Dec 13, 2022 | NC Politics, Politics
How did the GOP do in the November 2022 elections? Here is the big picture at the local, state, and the national level. Local level. Before the election Republicans controlled 61 County commissions. After the elections the GOP controls 67 County...
by Paul Stam | Nov 3, 2022 | Uncategorized |
THE TRAGEDY OF THIS WAR For the last year the world has been flooded with news of the impending and now the actual war of Russia against Ukraine. While numbers are incomplete, I estimate there have been at least 100,000 soldiers and civilians killed and...
by Paul Stam | Apr 27, 2022 | Politics |
Was the pistol permit law of 1919 an important part of “Jim Crow” efforts to deny access to arms for African Americans? That is not the real story. Public weapons possession was generally prohibited in England since the Statute of Northampton (1328) which...
by Paul Stam | Feb 17, 2022 | Politics |
On February 4 the Supreme Court ordered the Assembly to pass legislative redistricting maps by Friday the 18th. The Court has essentially required proportionality as the measure of redistricting, using mean-median difference analysis, efficiency gap analysis, close...
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