by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 26, 2019 | Politics
Share“All we ask is to be left alone.” -Jefferson Davis This arch traitor and leading contender for Worst American Who Ever Lived, knew what his kind needed to maintain their unjust ideal. To leave the South alone meant, simply, to deprive Southern black...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 22, 2019 | Politics
ShareAsked about recent turmoil on the UNC Board of Governors, Phil Berger intoned, “the board is making some changes to to the university functions and operates. That’s going to result, I think, in some folks not being fully happy with that.” Those...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 19, 2019 | Politics
ShareThree Republicans have put forward a proposal that would be extraordinarily destructive. The bill would give our teachers a raise–if they carried firearms in the classroom. All the bill’s boosters represent the base-pandering rancidity of the GOP...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 11, 2019 | Politics
ShareThe pattern of North Carolina Senate races has been fairly stable since the decline of the “Solid South.” The elections are always hard-fought–by some measures, the most competitive in America–but Republicans prevail more often than not....
by Thomas Mills | Mar 11, 2019 | Economy, Editor's Blog, NC Politics
ShareLast week, the News & Observer noted what most middle-class North Carolinians know is true. Our economy may be better than it was when the Great Recession left us with almost 10% unemployment but it’s not the powerhouse that Republicans promised they’d...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 8, 2019 | Editor's Blog, Gun Control
ShareRepublicans want to see more guns in classrooms. If I had written that ten years ago, the GOP would have screamed that I was using scare tactics, just like they did when people warned that they would cut funding to public schools and universities. Today, per...
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