by Thomas Mills | Jan 21, 2022 | Editor's Blog |
Republican Twitter pundits are all aghast at WRAL owner Jim Goodmon’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day speech in Rocky Mount. Goodmon criticized Republicans for failing our schools, extreme gerrymandering, and leaving so many North Carolinians without medical coverage in...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 19, 2022 | Editor's Blog |
Republicans in the Senate are voting today to delay the primary yet again. They’re making plans to ensure that they can redraw legislative and Congressional districts in the event that the Supreme Court finds their districts unconstitutional. The current schedule...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 17, 2022 | Editor's Blog |
On the eve of the Martin Luther King Holiday, Virginia’s new governor, Glenn Youngkin, signed an executive order banning schools from teaching Critical Race Theory. He told Fox News, “But to actually teach our children that one group is advantaged and the...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 14, 2022 | Editor's Blog |
Wall Street Journal columnist and former Bush speechwriter Peggy Noonan wrote a piece this week blistering Joe Biden for his voting rights speech in Georgia. She called it a “breaking point” that would unify support against Biden. Noonan cited Mitch...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 10, 2022 | Editor's Blog |
Things change fast in politics. After months of political pundits predicting doom and destruction for Democrats in November, the narrative may be beginning to change. Redistricting doesn’t appear to be the disaster that so many people, me included, expected. A poll...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 7, 2022 | Editor's Blog |
Reading the GOP’s motion to have Supreme Court Justice Jimmy Ervin recuse himself, it’s hard to tell whether the legislators are trolling Democrats or the Carolina Journal. Regardless, it’s clearly not a serious proposal. Their reasoning lacks reason and their logic...
