The special election in GA-06
The political world’s attention is focused on the special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. In the race to replace Republican Rep. Tom Price, who Trump named Secretary of Health and Human Services, Democrat Jon Ossoff is getting all of the attention....
Forest and free speech
Back in the early 1960s, students and faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill defied a law passed by the General Assembly that prohibited speakers on university campuses who espoused communist or anti-American views. The student body president...
Larry Pittman is a bad joke
Rep. Larry Pittman is the best entertainment in the North Carolina legislature. He came on most people’s radar screen back in 2013 when he introduced a bill that would establish a state religion in North Carolina. He was shut down by an embarrassed leadership but he’s...
Republicans’ terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
Yesterday was a tough day to be a Republican. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said even Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons and then called concentration camps “Holocaust centers.” A few hours later, Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly introduced...
Make Obamacare work
For seven years, Republicans vowed to end Obamacare and made every effort possible to sabotage it. When the GOP finally got power, the American public found out Republicans didn’t have a plan and also realized that they didn’t want to go back to the days of...
More governing, less politics
Everybody should read Rob Christensen’s column from Sunday. He notes that North Carolina has long been known as a good government state, in part, because state leaders tried to take politics out of local government as much as possible. Most cities and towns have a...
Nationals news and siding with hog stench
National news will dominate the news cycle today. Republicans are in another phase of changing the rules to solidify their power in the US Senate. Donald Trump launched a missile attack against Syria last night. And the US jobs report leaves questions about the...
Blue moon opportunity
In the New York Times, Nate Cohn suggests that Democrats might be addressing the turnout problems they’ve faced in recent midterm elections. Nationally, the last two midterms were disasters for Democrats. The 2010 Republican wave set the stage for the dramatic...
Mitch McConnell broke the Senate
Neil Gorsuch is going to be confirmed for the Supreme Court this week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made that clear. Democrats have also made it clear that they will filibuster his nomination, so expect McConnell is exercise the so-called “nuclear...
A lifetime of Carolina basketball
I’ve spent my whole life pulling for Carolina basketball teams. As a boy, I listened every year as my parents rehashed the 1957 triple-overtime win against Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas. I yearned for such a victory and I cried when Carolina fell short, year after year....
