Democrats in NC special elections need to distance themselves from the presidential primary conversation
Yesterday, John Hood wrote an analysis of the special elections that will take place this year in North Carolina. He correctly points out that this year is not last. While Democrats had the wind at their backs in 2018 running against an unpopular president, 2019...
Tillis needs to stop the bleeding
A poll conducted by ProgressNC Action shows that North Carolinians overwhelmingly support the Mueller investigation and want Senator Thom Tillis to call for the report to be made public when it’s released. Two-thirds of voters say they’ve heard a lot about the...
Tillis, Graham destroying the village in order to save it
First, South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham blocked a bill to make the Mueller report public that passed the House 420-0. Then this weekend, Donald Trump continued his attacks on John McCain despite the Senator’s death seven months ago. Lindsay Graham, who for years...
Weasel
Yesterday, I wrote “We’re about to see if Thom Tillis stands by the courage of his convictions.” Well, he doesn’t. His convictions are about as firm and malleable as modelling clay. After penning an op-ed that laid out the case for opposing Donald Trump’s...
A Tillis-Walker primary?
We’re about to see if Sen. Thom Tillis really stands by the courage of his convictions. A couple of weeks ago, he wrote an op-ed explaining why he would vote to block Trump’s emergency declaration to secure money for his border wall. Tillis laid out a plain case for...
Some unpopular opinions, if you’re a Democrat
I’ve got a bunch of unpopular opinions right now—at least it you’re a Democrat. It’s probably time I took a little abuse from my side of the aisle, so here goes. First, I think Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should listen more and talk less. She’s a very talented...
Still struggling
Last week, the News & Observer noted what most middle-class North Carolinians know is true. Our economy may be better than it was when the Great Recession left us with almost 10% unemployment but it’s not the powerhouse that Republicans promised they’d bring...
When unintended consequences are deadly
Republicans want to see more guns in classrooms. If I had written that ten years ago, the GOP would have screamed that I was using scare tactics, just like they did when people warned that they would cut funding to public schools and universities. Today, per pupil...
The state of the US Senate race in NC
Yesterday, twitter announced that North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein will take a pass on the US Senate race against incumbent Thom Tillis. Other articles noted that Republicans frustrated with Tillis for opposing Trump’s emergency declaration are talking about...
Economic freedom is about more than just free markets
Yesterday, Mitch Kokai of the John Locke Foundation wrote an interesting piece that seemed to fly in the face of everything the Locke Foundation advocates. Kokai noted that a lecturer at Duke University pointed out that northern European countries like Norway and...
