A missed opportunity
I usually take a break from blogging on Saturday, but Pat McCrory’s response to the New York Time’s editorial needs a response. Travis Fain took a good shot at the Time’s editorial board in his piece this morning. As a fellow Southerner, I agree with a lot of his...
Say anything
The North Carolina Republican Party has a problem. Well, it’s got a lot of them, but it’s got one big one. The guy who’s supposed to be the face and leader of their party can’t tell the difference between the truth and a lie. It’s one thing when he says that he won’t...
More Shenanigans
I hate to keep beating up on Kieran Shanahan (okay, I really don’t but it’s a good lead in anyway), but what is it with this guy? First, he takes a job with the McCrory Administration as Secretary of Public Safety. Then, we find out that he wants to keep working at...
Glass houses
Back when the Moral Monday movement first started, I wrote a blog suggesting the leaders not call it “Moral Monday.” I quickly lost that argument and have referred to it as Moral Monday ever since. No sense fighting a losing battle. That said, I’ll stand by my...
Carpetbaggers
When I was a kid growing up in a small North Carolina town, they taught us that Reconstruction was a time of hardship and deprivation. Carpetbaggers came down from up North to take advantage of the defeated Southerners through political corruption and generally...
Cleaning up the mess
The GOP has control of North Carolina for the first time in more than 100 years. It’s not going to end well--for North Carolina or the GOP. As Rob Christensen writes, they’ve embarrassed the state and themselves. As a state, we’ll suffer under policies that harm our...
A campaign story
Boy, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Grime’s decision to run for U.S. Senate sure brought back memories. For weeks, EMILY’s List, the pro-choice group committed to electing Democratic women, was pushing Grimes to get into the race. When she announced yesterday, the...
Overreach
Last night, the North Carolina Senate finally kicked the hornet’s nest. Under cover of darkness, they attached draconian legislation to restrict women’s access to health care to--get this--the anti-Shariah Law bill. No shit. As one friend tweeted, “The NC General...
Owning it
While the unemployed, uninsured and working poor are paying the heaviest price for the Republican take over of North Carolina state government, Thom Tillis may pay a steep price also. While he has, at times, tried to distance himself from the most draconian or stupid...
A poor reflection
This week I felt a shift. I’ve felt them before and then seen a return to the status quo. In the past, I thought the shift was toward either a more conservative or more progressive perspective by the American public. I felt it after Barack Obama’s victory in 2008 and...
