by Thomas Mills | Feb 11, 2019 | Editor's Blog
ShareCongressman Walter Jones, Jr. died yesterday. He’s been absent from the House since the fall and his family announced that Jones was in hospice care last week. His death is a loss for people who believe politics should be based on principle. Jones spent the...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 8, 2019 | Editor's Blog
ShareAt around the time Ralph Northam and other Virginia Democrats were wearing blackface, a fraternity at UNC-CH hosted annual “Southern Parties” that, in 1979, featured a mock lynching of a brother in blackface by two other brothers in KKK robes and hoods. Another...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 6, 2019 | Editor's Blog
ShareHere’s my prediction for the legislative session: North Carolina will expand Medicaid this year. Roy Cooper is set on it and Republican opposition is concentrated most fervently in the leadership, not the rank and file. It has broad support among the voters and...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 5, 2019 | Editor's Blog
ShareWhen I was kid, National Lampoon released its parody of high school yearbooks. It was a send up that was irreverent, bawdy, and hilarious. I was ten years old when it came out and, along with Mad Magazine, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Saturday Night Live...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 4, 2019 | Editor's Blog
ShareRacist photos of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam surfaced this weekend. The photos appeared in his medical school year book depicting a white person in blackface dressed in preppy clothing of the day, madras pants and bow tie, standing by another person in Ku...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 1, 2019 | Editor's Blog, Race
ShareDear GOP, When the most one of the most prominent African-Americans in your party tells you that a guy has a disturbing racial history, you ought to listen, not rebuke him. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) understands the strategy used by Jesse Helms and the Republican...
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