by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 11, 2021 | Politics |
Simeon Oxendine flew over 30 missions against the Nazis during World War II. A few years after he returned home to Robeson County, North Carolina, he and his people, the Lumbees, would be targeted for intimidation and a cross burning by the Ku Klux Klan. Oxendine went...
by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 10, 2021 | Politics |
When, after years of appeals filed by overworked lawyers and an isolated, violent existence in a gamut of brutal Texas prisons, Cameron Todd Willingham finally met his fate, the state of Texas listed his cause of death as “Homicide.” Over 1,000 human...
by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 9, 2021 | Politics |
North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore is hardly a beloved figure in Raleigh circles, but he commands the loyalty of his top lieutenants. Knowing that their maestro aspired to hold seat in Congress, top N.C. House mapmakers drew a juicy, ill-formed district in the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 8, 2021 | Politics |
If Richard Burr is a RINO, it’s hard to imagine what is an elephant. For the past 25 years Burr has been the definition of a rock-solid Southern conservative, voting uniformly right on economic, social and military issues. Facing a potential primary challenge in...
by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 4, 2021 | Politics |
North Carolina’s frontier origins bred a resistance to overweening authority. The earliest Euro-Americans to settle in the state were small farmers who could no longer afford land in the colony of Virginia, and so spilled across the border into the Albemarle...
by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 3, 2021 | Politics
Republican Glenn Youngkin broke his party’s decade-long losing streak in Virginia last night by defeating Terry McAuliffe for governor. While his margin of victory was small, at two points, he overcame years of political trends and sealed an impressive victory....
