by Thomas Mills | Mar 19, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made one of his threatening speeches about the dire consequences Democrats would face if they scrapped the filibuster. He listed a litany of conservative policies he would ram through the Senate the next time...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 17, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
When I began working in politics, Republicans had a get-out-the-vote strategy in the rural South that focused on evangelical churches. It centered on opposition to abortion and relied on “voter education cards” to motivate the electorate. Occasionally, they supported...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 15, 2021 | Editor's Blog
Democrats passed the American Recovery Act without a single Republican vote. The party that spent the past four years giving tax cuts to the rich and running up unprecedented deficits is suddenly concerned about the debt and deficit again. It was predictable as...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 12, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
Not too long after I first started PoliticsNC (eight years ago this month), I brought on a young writer named John Wynne . John provided a thoughtful conservative perspective because I wanted this blog to be a place of respectful debate in an increasingly...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 9, 2021 | Editor's Blog
Today, I’ve read several articles that I believe are worth sharing. Instead of a blog, I’m going to post them. They are worth your time. I encourage you to take time to read them. First up, an article about how we remember history. It centers on a fight almost...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 8, 2021 | coronavirus, Editor's Blog |
Democrats are about to try something radical. They are going to run on competence instead of ideology or demagoguery. Joe Biden told the American people he would pass a COVID recovery act and get more than 100 million people vaccinated in the first 100 days of his...
