Liz Cheney tells the truth

Liz Cheney tells the truth

This morning Liz Cheney Tweeted, “The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOPleaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold...

Primary prattle, pardon the typos

Primary prattle, pardon the typos

The primary election is on Tuesday and North Carolina has had some surprisingly high-profile races on the ballot. The GOP primary for US Senate will determine who faces Democrat Cheri Beasley in what will certainly be one of the most watched Senate races of the cycle....

Get the message right on Roe

Get the message right on Roe

If the Supreme Court guts Roe v. Wade, as the leaked opinion implies, then the political landscape going into the 2022 election is almost certainly changed. The election will focus on the impact of that decision and progressives need to take advantage of the new...

Towards A Neo-Moreheadism

Towards A Neo-Moreheadism

By 1840, when John Motley Morehead took office as governor of North Carolina, the illiteracy rate for white North Carolinians was 26%. Based on nationwide studies, we can infer that the illiteracy rate for enslaved Blacks could not have been lower than 95%. The state...

GOP family values

GOP family values

I sure hope I can stop writing about Madison Cawthorn after May 17. If I have to talk about him winning the primary, it says more about the Republican Party than it does about Cawthorn. Actually, all of it, his whole political saga, says a lot about the GOP. ...

The McConnell Court

The McConnell Court

If the leaked memo from Supreme Court is correct, Roe v Wade has been overturned. It’s a bit shocking, even if it was predictable. Conservatives are giddy, even if trying to focus more on the unprecedented leak than the impact on low-income women who can’t...

Conservative “Populism” is a Fraud

Conservative “Populism” is a Fraud

If the Republican Party is "populist," then where are the people? GOP politicians more and more relish the pose of tribune of the ordinary man and woman, but little has changed in the ideological makeup of their party. The Republican platform remains, overwhelmingly,...

Good news for Democrats? It’s all relative

Good news for Democrats? It’s all relative

Democrats got some good news from the ABC News-Washington Post poll yesterday. Mind you, good news is relative. The poll indicates that the political environment is no longer deteriorating for the party in power, not that they’re in any great shape as we head into the...

Grifters and leaders

Grifters and leaders

The Republican establishment is finally fighting back. The ferocity with which Senator Thom Tillis is going after Madison Cawthorn is impressive. Tillis is leveling a no-holds barred attack on the Congressman from the 11th district using a SuperPAC to attack him and...