by Thomas Mills | Jan 4, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
Sedition n. incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority. Yesterday, the Washington Post released a tape of an hour-long phone call where the President of the United States tried to bully the Georgia Secretary of State...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 1, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
Happy New Year and good riddance 2020. It’s time to look back at my predictions for 2020 and make a few about 2021. Let’s hope it’s a better year than the one that just passed. Last year, I predicted that Joe Biden would win the Democratic primary in North...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 31, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
Yesterday, I took a first look at turnout from the 2020 election. What keeps haunting me is the discrepancy between Democratic and Republican turnout. In the past two election cycles, Republicans have outpaced Democrats by more than six percent. Had that gap been...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 30, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
A twitter feed run by a conservative numbers guy is out with an early look at the numbers from the 2020 election. In a year with record turnout, Republicans outpaced Democrats and unaffiliated voters. GOP turnout was a staggering 81%. In contrast, Democrats voted at...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 29, 2020 | Editor's Blog |
Photo by Michael Halminski Former Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight died yesterday after a long illness. Basnight was the longest serving leader of the state senate in North Carolina. He also essentially created the position as it is today and he transformed the...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 23, 2020 | Editor's Blog |
Last night, Donald Trump gave the speech he should have been giving all year. If he had, he would have won. It wasn’t long, but it attacked government spending priorities and called out Congress for short-changing American families and businesses. It was the theme...
