Comments by Steven P. Rader | Eastern NC Now

Quite a contrast with the UK on Critical Race Theory. Here is part of a speech in the House of Commons by Kemi Badenoch, Minister of Women and Equalities in Boris Johnson's cabinet denouncing Critical Race Theory and saying schools teaching it are breaking the law. www.youtube.com

Commented: Saturday, April 24th, 2021 @ 1:03 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Conservatives do not need our ranks divided in this primary. We need to unite behind one candidate. Lara Trump and Ted Budd need to decide which of them is going to run, and then the other one needs to get behind the one running. Dividing conservatives is a recipe to get stuck with another Richard Burr or Thom Tillis.

Commented: Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 @ 8:09 pm By: Steven P. Rader

New poll in Alaska US Senate race: conservative leads Murkowski by 15 points. The numbers: conservative Kelly Tshibaka 33.6%, establishment Sen. Lisa Murkowski 18.8%, Democrat Al Gross 17.6%, Alaska Independence Party's John Howe 5.7%. Also Murkoski's negatives were at 63% and postives at 33%.

Commented: Monday, April 5th, 2021 @ 6:50 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The other important thing to remember about Zoom is that although it is technically an American company, almost all of its operations are in China, meaning anything said or done on Zoom is easily accessible to China's spymasters.

Commented: Saturday, March 27th, 2021 @ 8:58 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The Rasmussen poll shows that nationally 76% support photo Voter ID, including 60% of Democrats and 77% of Independents. It is international best practice in ballot security and used all over Europe and in much of the rest of the world.

Commented: Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 @ 3:14 pm By: Steven P. Rader

For a liberal, retired British Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption sure tells it like it is on how the pandemic lockdowns are oppressive to the peoples liberty. If we have to have liberals on our courts in the US, why can't we get sensible liberals like him? Great interview.

Commented: Friday, March 5th, 2021 @ 8:53 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Could we imagine ANY university in the US even conducting such a study, much less releasing its results? Going against the grain of the left's political narrative is something they just don't do. It is good that academic freedom still exists in Sweden. It is a thing of the past here in the US. Not just one, but two Swedish universities researched this issue and released results even though the facts revealed are politically harmful to the left and center-left parties. In the US, the "political correctness" straight jacket, and especially the "woke" cult, which is political correctness on steroids, would simply not allow that to happen. Any professor thinking of conducting such a study would be afraid of being "cancelled".

Commented: Saturday, February 27th, 2021 @ 7:20 am By: Steven P. Rader

The left is using the Capitol riot the same way the Nazis used the Reichstag fire to try to justify crushing the rights of everyone else. They understood crowd behavior and used a few instigators to get things rolling, knowing that many who were indeed Trump people would follow them in. One of those groups were the anarchist anti-Trump Boogaloo Bois. BLM activist John Sullivan was one of those instigating the crowd, shouting "burn it down", and entered the Capitol himself, for which he has been arrested.

Commented: Saturday, February 20th, 2021 @ 8:52 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The North Carolina Republican state Central Committee, the 3rd Congressional District Republican Executive Committee, and the Beaufort County Republican Executive Committee have all voted to censure Richard Burr for his despicable vote against President Trump in the Nancy Pelosi sham impeachment.

Commented: Thursday, February 18th, 2021 @ 10:18 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The impeachment charade was intended as a distraction to keep attention away from all the radical things the Biden administration is doing, and it has served its purpose for that. Of course, the propagandists of the MSM went along fully. What is sad is the number of establishment Republicans who are helping the Democrats keep the focus on Trump instead of Biden. That is just unforgivable and needs to be dealt with in the primaries. Mitch McConnell is among the major offenders.

Commented: Monday, February 15th, 2021 @ 10:33 am By: Steven P. Rader

It sounds like it is time for a shareholders derivative suit against Twitter management for their actions that have hurt shareholders value. Playing politics has hurt the business. As they say "get 'woke' and go broke". That major Trump supporter who bought shares to try to take over Twitter would be a good lead plaintiff if he has not dumped those shares.

Commented: Thursday, February 11th, 2021 @ 11:37 am By: Steven P. Rader

Proposing the "limited voting" plan had to be the stupidest thing Beaufort County Commissioners have ever done. It was not necessary. Rev. Moore's district plan was a better plan in so many ways, but under the law they probably even did not have to do that. Most importantly, they brazenly kept the public in the dark on the whole process of dealing with citizens precious right to vote. Citizens voting rights, not Frank Bonner's political career should have been the focus.

Under voting rights statutes, to prevail, the plaintiffs had to show a racially polarized pattern of voting in the county, and the facts there presented a major problem for the plaintiffs. There were three clear examples of just the opposite occurring in elections a few years before the lawsuit. There was a Democrat NC House primary where Beaufort County black voters overwhelmingly voted for a white incumbent over a well qualified black challenger. There was a Republican sheriffs primary where white voters overwhelmingly backed a well qualified black candidate over several qualified whites. There was a general election for sheriff where black voters overwhelmingly backed a white Democrat over a well qualified black Republican. There were also some Washington municipal races where black candidates ran well among white voters. The county had the evidence to prove that a racially polarized pattern of voting did not exist in Beaufort County. The commissioners had plenty of ammunition to fight if they wanted to but they chose an attorney who had a record in this type of case of managing the surrender instead of going to battle.

Commented: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 @ 7:47 am By: Steven P. Rader

New polling shows Liz Cheney losing her GOP primary by a landslide 33 points. The numbers are State Senator Anthony Bouchard 54%, Liz Cheney 31%, undecided 15%. In addition, 73% of Republican voters and 62% of all voters have an unfavorable view of Cheney. She is toast and deserves to be.

Commented: Thursday, January 28th, 2021 @ 7:52 am By: Steven P. Rader

The shoe is on the other foot in Turkey. Turkey's president has accused Twitter of "digital fascism" and blocked Twitter's advertising within Turkey.

Commented: Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 @ 10:16 am By: Steven P. Rader

In her last GOP primary, Cheney lost 25% of the vote to a political unknown who ran no campaign and had no money. She will be a deer in the headlights for a serious primary challenger. Indeed, when a serious challenger announces, it is expected that Cheney will decide to retire.

Commented: Saturday, January 16th, 2021 @ 8:21 pm By: Steven P. Rader

This is little more than a Stalin Show Trial. They did not even bother with sending it to a committee to investigate. No more due process than in the old USSR. I cannot imagine SC or Wyoming voters sending that pair back. The others may have more liberal districts. If House Republicans had had any backbone, they would have countered by offering impeachment articles against "the Big Guy" for his collusion in corruption with his son Hunter.

Commented: Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 @ 8:04 pm By: Steven P. Rader

I wonder whether the initial break-in might have been done by BLM or ANTIFA provocateurs, assuming that pro-Trump demonstrators would get caught up in the moment and swarm in.

That thought comes from a very similar event while I was working in the Republic of Moldova with the pro-western political parties. The Communists had won the 2009 Parliamentary election through cheating and fraud, and students started a peaceful protest against the election fraud in the Great National Square in Chisinau between the Presidency and the Parliament. Party activists joined in. Then a group of unknown people showed up equipped with bags of rocks, and stormed the Presidency, forcing their way in and starting to vandalize it, then repeating the performance on the Parliament building. Only later were the provocateurs positively identified as Communist agitators who had previously been photographed in demonstrations against the pro-western parties. Too many students and others got caught up in the moment and followed the provocateurs inside, while the provocateurs themselves quietly slipped away.

The public relations aspects of this incident do not help the President, which is why is was more likely organized by his opponents, who would assume that Trump supporters would get caught up in the moment and join in.

Already, according to Tom Lamprecht on WTIB this evening, two of those who entered the Capitol have been identified in photographs from several months ago when they were participating in BLM demonstrations. One of those two was even sitting in Pelosi's chair during this incident after having been a BLM protester earlier.

Commented: Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 @ 8:20 pm By: Steven P. Rader