by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 6, 2020 | Politics |
Iowa’s Democratic leadership disgraced itself and finally sealed the fate of their state’s first-in-the-nation privilege. If the DNC does not replace the Iowa caucuses with a more representative state like Michigan, it will be guilty of political...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 3, 2020 | Politics
North Carolina’s governorship has not always been a venerated position. The first European settlers in the state were underclass “Lubbers” who resisted authority of all kinds, making early North Carolina a hive of lawlessness and piracy and virtually...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 30, 2020 | Politics
In the years since his death, Ronald Reagan has enjoyed a rapprochement with his liberal antagonists. Speaking in the heat of his primary campaign, then-Senator Barack Obama credited Reagan with “[changing] the trajectory of America” in an at least...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 27, 2020 | Politics
American liberty has always come with exceptions. An estimated one-fifth of the colonial population was enslaved at the time of independence. The raw number of men and women in bondage would grow to four million by the time a bloody war finally brought about, after...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 23, 2020 | Politics |
The new state Senate majority of 2011, led by men of modestly successful careers, and in large part from rural areas, came into power with an edge of payback. As Bev Perdue exited office after one term, Senators Phil Berger of Rockingham County, Tom Apodaca of...
