by Thomas Mills | Feb 12, 2019 | Editor's Blog
If I were Mark Harris’ attorney, I’d tell him to stop talking to the press. Every time the GOP candidate in the NC-09 election debacle goes on the record, he makes himself look guilty or stupid or both. He just reinforces the need for a more in depth investigation...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 11, 2019 | Editor's Blog |
Congressman 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 last...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 8, 2019 | Editor's Blog
At 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
Here’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 much...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 5, 2019 | Editor's Blog
When 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 skits,...
