Pragmatism, vetting and compassion are all necessary when addressing immigration.
( Published Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 @ 10:28 am )]]> A recap of this year's convention.
( Published Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 @ 3:03 pm )]]> Greg Murphy's use of Amy Kremer as his hatchet person is absurdity at its best!
( Published Thursday, June 27th, 2019 @ 9:31 pm )]]> Today, U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Gary Peters (D-MI) led a bipartisan group of their colleagues in a letter to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies.
( Published Thursday, May 4th, 2017 @ 5:00 pm )]]> It was recently announced that the Trump administration is dropping the legal action against the state of North Carolina for previous legislation to protect privacy and safety in public restrooms, showers, and changing facilities.
( Published Friday, April 14th, 2017 @ 4:30 pm )]]> "He that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled)," Captain John Smith told the 1609 Jamestown colonists.
( Published Friday, October 16th, 2015 @ 3:35 am )]]> The N&O issued a tearful goodbye this morning to the "education judge." SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEECH! (The what?):
( Published Saturday, August 1st, 2015 @ 9:23 am )]]> We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
( Published Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 10:12 pm )]]> The Left has had a field day blaming a whole lot of terrible things on the fact that Confederate flag imagery even exists.
( Published Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 9:31 pm )]]> There was absolutely nothing surprising about the North Carolina Supreme Court's 4-3 decision to uphold the constitutionality of the state's new Opportunity Scholarship program. The outcome was welcome. The lack of surprise was disappointing.
( Published Monday, July 27th, 2015 @ 5:33 pm )]]> I've been missing Jesse Helms. I got to watch the man up close for nearly two years in DC.
( Published Sunday, July 26th, 2015 @ 7:56 pm )]]> Senate Bill 192 (Citations/Sheriffs Accept Faxes) sponsored by Senator Bill Cook (R-District 1) came back to the Senate this week from the House for concurrence.
( Published Saturday, July 25th, 2015 @ 5:03 am )]]> The moles are reporting in about the appearance of something in Jones Street's lower chamber called the "License Plate Subcommittee."
( Published Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 4:43 am )]]> In case you missed it, National Review has a great writeup on next year's showdown between Renee Ellmers and Jim Duncan in the 2nd district GOP primary.
( Published Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015 @ 1:38 pm )]]> Governor Pat McCrory ordered the lowering of the North Carolina flag to half-staff in honor of four United States Marines and a United States Navy petty officer slain in a Chattanooga, TN shooting attack, an incident being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism.
( Published Monday, July 20th, 2015 @ 8:28 am )]]> In 2009, the General Assembly passed a law prohibiting cyberbullying - the use of the Internet or social media networks for deliberate harassment - of minors.
( Published Friday, July 10th, 2015 @ 2:10 pm )]]> There's another player out there rating the conservatism of DC politicians -- Conservative Review. The folks at that site give both North Carolina senators failing grades, and pass only FIVE of North Carolina's 13 House members.
( Published Tuesday, July 7th, 2015 @ 5:42 am )]]> Few are surprised our legislature came up to the deadline to pass a new state budget and was forced to pass a continuing resolution. It's a regular occurrence.
( Published Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 9:44 am )]]> We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
( Published Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 2:49 pm )]]> Governor Pat McCrory released the following Independence Day statement.
( Published Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 12:51 pm )]]> The state of North Carolina has begun its 2015-16 fiscal year with a continuing resolution instead of a budget. While it would certainly have been better if lawmakers and Gov. Pat McCrory had inked a formal budget by now, the situation could be much worse.
( Published Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 @ 5:48 pm )]]> If you're like me, you're probably a bit disheartened by our Lt. Governor. Dan Forest talked a good game on the 2012 campaign trail.
( Published Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 @ 10:04 am )]]> Last week, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced, "The Treatment of Certain Payments in Eugenics Compensation Act." This legislation is vital to restoring justice to the victims of this heinous government run program.
( Published Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 10:41 pm )]]> When the framers of our state's Constitution were assigning duties and responsibilities to the various branches of government they wisely delegated to the voters decision-making responsibility for should government incurring debt.
( Published Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 10:47 pm )]]> Lately there has been a great deal of discussion, even among conservatives and Republicans, about the possibility of implementing a carbon dioxide tax, incorrectly refereed to as a carbon tax. Of course carbon dioxide and carbon are quite different. But this is part of the manipulation of the...
( Published Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 6:44 pm )]]>