Private investigations are little more than political shenanigans
When the Republicans legislators announced the results of an “independent” investigation into the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, it was the second such investigation in recent weeks. Over at the Board of Governors, Board member Tom Fetzer, probably with support of some of...
NC has had some embarrassing senators, but Thom Tillis is the most pathetic
Just over a decade ago, Rob Christensen set out to answer "how a state could be represented by John Edwards and Jesse Helms at the same time." When his ensuing book was published, Edwards was a top-tier presidential contender, and Helms was basking in the afterglow of...
Kirk Kovach: KY, LA victories portend well for Cooper in 2020
In the past few weeks, Democrats have seen a number of positive outcomes in elections where a typical Republican ought to run away with it. Louisiana, Mississippi and Kentucky each held their gubernatorial contests this year, and all three are states where Donald...
A scandal without victims or beneficiaries is not a scandal
Republicans in Washington are defending one of the most corrupt administrations in US history. In a plea deal, the former chair of the North Carolina Republican Party pled guilty to lying to the FBI in exchange for his continued cooperation. The Republican...
Podcast: Impeachment, Mark Meadows and Thom Tillis
Gary Pearce joins Thomas Mills to discuss the implications of impeachment in North Carolina. Gary writes at New Day for NC.
Gary Pearce: Socialism is already here — down on the farm
The fellow from down east was fed up with his neighbors calling Democrats “socialists.” He fumed, “Some of the people yelling loudest about socialists are the biggest socialists around.” How’s that? “They’re farmers, and they get farm subsidies,...
House-elf in the House of Trump
In the Thom-Tillis-has-no-shame department, the junior Senator from North Carolina penned an “op-ed” for Fox News yesterday. I put op-ed in quotation marks because the piece is little more than White House talking points put into a narrative format. Tillis certainly...
Takeaways from the LA and KY Gubernatorial races: Centrism works
Democrats continued to build momentum this month with victories in Kentucky and Louisiana. Both candidates for governor, the winning Democrats, Andy Beshear and John Bel Edwards, defeated their Republican opponents by running on centrist platforms. The elections tell...
The Return of the Death Eaters
Remember that part in the Harry Potter series when all of the Death Eaters started to reveal themselves again? They’d been in hiding for years since Voldemort had been defeated sometime in the distant past. With the return of the Dark Lord, as they called Voldemort,...
Right now, money matters more than polls
A poll from Fox News last week showed Cal Cunningham trailing Erica Smith in the Democratic primary for US Senate. The poll also gave Senator Thom Tillis his best numbers yet, showing he had a positive favorability rating, something he hasn’t seen in any poll since...
Right now, it’s Biden in NC
The news this week in the presidential race centers around the entry of former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Both candidates are supposed to offer more moderate Democrats an alternative to Biden or Buttigieg. Patrick...
Podcast: Impeachment and Medicare For All
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