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Category: Overcoming Republican Timidity
A Republican State Legislator With Political Talent
This is a guy who can speak. I wonder what kind of future he might have: North Carolinians are in agreement with HB318. Here is a little clarity to defuse the fearmongering and misrepresentations out there. #ncpol pic.twitter.com/oW7IznPggR — Representative Brian Echevarria (@BrianEchNC) August 3, 2025
If True, This Is Quite An Indictment…
… of the establishment Republican leadership in Congress: During August recess, Speaker Johnson and Leader Thune plan to call the House and Senate into session every four or five days, with practically no one there, for the sole purpose of preventing Trump from making recess appointments. Here was today’s House […]
Optimism Regarding Trump And The New Republican Majority
The below video expresses a sanguine view of what Christians might expect with Trump and the Republicans in control. We should never, however, underestimate the likelihood of Republicans messing things up and failing to deliver:
NC General Assembly: Three Wins, One Mistake
A couple of interesting articles at Carolina Journal detail some interesting legislation being advanced in Raleigh. First, an amendment to the NC State Constitution are being proposed to mandate voter ID for all voters– including absentee voters. There is another amendment to place a cap on state income taxes at […]
Folwell’s Ride Off Into The Sunset (And Dan Bishop’s, Also)
The Daily Haymaker posted this week about State Treasurer Dale Folwell who has sent a communication demanding reimbursement from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina to recover monies for the state’s taxpayers. Folwell is serving his final weeks in office. Two of the most unfortunate aspects of the recent […]
NC GOP Tarred And Feathered Despite Abortion Cave
Recall the decision by the Republicans’ NC General Assembly leadership to cave on the abortion issue and allow the barbarous procedure in North Carolina through the few few months of pregnancy. This was obviously a political calculation designed to protect their incumbency at the expense of public morality and the […]
Is State GOP Inadequately Supporting Its Statewide Candidates?
The Daily Haymaker is making some serious allegations in light of the Republican Party’s poor performance in statewide races this year. He alleges that the state GOP was not funding sufficiently statewide races for folks like Dan Bishop and Michele Morrow; and that various grifters are absconding away with campaign […]
Josh Stein’s Misuse Of Public Funds
The socialists have always been arrogant. Our State Attorney General, Josh Stein, is running for governor. A judge in Wake County recently ruled that Stein had improperly used some money Smithfield Foods has been paying the state under an old legal agreement. Carolina Journal has the details. The mere premise […]
NC GOP Cave On Mask Bill Nearly Complete
We had discussed here last week how a couple of liberal/moderate Republicans in the NC House were attempting to water down the Senate mask bill. WRAL is now reporting that a compromise bill is agreed upon that will grant broad exemptions for wearing masks. In essence, the effort to return […]