The Big Lie of voter fraud
The Big Lie is voter fraud. It’s the metaphorical Reichstag fire that Republicans have used to rally their troops and strip away voting rights in attempts to rig elections. And it’s the spark that led to the failed insurrection on Wednesday that left our Capitol...
There should be consequences
Yesterday should have been a celebration of our democracy and its tradition of a peaceful transfer of power. Instead, the President of the United States summoned a small group of his lunatic and intellectually challenged supporters to Washington and encouraged them to...
It’s a great day to be a Democrat
Wow! What a country! Georgia just elected two Democratic Senators, giving Democrats control of Congress and the White House as we kick off 2021. Meanwhile, the President of the United States was shouting in the background that his vice-president is his last hope for...
For conservatives, a time for choosing
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...
Predictions 2021
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...
Democrats’ glaring strategic mistake
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...
A first look at 2020 turnout in NC
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...
RIP Marc Basnight
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...
Trump offers a message for Democrats
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...
Study proves trickle-down didn’t trickle
Back in the early 1980s, when Ronald Reagan was telling us that tax cuts for the wealthy would trickle down to the rest of us and promote broad prosperity, I saw a political cartoon in a left wing magazine that had a crude image of Uncle Sam pissing on a map of the...
