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Lick your wounds and get ready to fight

by Thomas Mills | Nov 16, 2016 | Editor's Blog | 9 comments

For Democrats and progressives, this election has been the hardest in our lifetimes. For America, it could be the most damaging. Not only is Trump singularly unqualified and polarizing, most of the country believed we were about to elect the first woman President of...

Making the case

by Thomas Mills | Jul 28, 2016 | DNC 2016, Editor's Blog | 7 comments

Yesterday, Democrats had a remarkably good day and Donald Trump had a remarkably bad one. In Philadelphia, speaker after speaker, laid into Trump as an untrustworthy con man unfit to serve as President of the United States. Barack Obama ended the night with a speech...

Lost

by Thomas Mills | May 6, 2016 | Editor's Blog, National Politics, NC Politics | 12 comments

The Republican Party has lost its ability govern. In states and in Washington, the GOP is passing laws hurting the people it’s supposed to serve and preventing government from functioning effectively. They’ve built an unsustainable coalition that relies on exploiting...

Do your job

by Thomas Mills | Apr 29, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Editor's Blog, National Politics, NC Politics, US Senate | 14 comments

I really don’t understand Republicans’ Congressional strategy. The whole country is mad at Congress for being ineffective and incompetent and they still won’t do their jobs. Instead, of announcing he’s doing something, Richard Burr yesterday told us he’s not going to...

The party of pointing fingers

by Thomas Mills | Mar 28, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Editor's Blog, LGBT Rights, NC Politics, Presidential race | 4 comments

Remember when the GOP was the party of personal responsibility? Not any more. Now, they’re the party of pointing fingers. They’re blaming everybody but themselves for the continuing bad press being heaped on their party. After Republicans passed sweeping legislation...