The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday helped North Carolina’s GOP clear a major hurdle in securing a potential path to electoral dominance for years to come, giving approval – so-called pre-clearance – to redistricting maps drawn earlier this year, despite howls from critics who claim the plans discriminate against minorities and violate the Voting [...]
One can only be amused at the convoluted thinking Judge Howard Manning and his supporters supply to his distortion of his authority under the state constitution. The instant case has to do with North Carolina’s pre-kindergarten program for 4-year-olds. According to the aggressively liberal mindset, the legislature is supposed to cough up $30,000,000 or more [...]
The Women’s Right to Know Act is another one of those ubiquitous pieces of legislation where the title says exactly the opposite of what the bill does. The title should be: Government’s Use of Force to Make Women Look at Pictures of Fetuses They are Thinking about Having Aborted. North Carolina Representative Ruth Samuelson, a [...]
This is a curious situation. A bleeding heart liberal, Representative Larry Womble (D-Winston-Salem), and House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg), seem to think taxpayers should give money – reparations of a sort, if you will – to survivors of North Carolina’s eugenics sterilization program. Maybe. What is the situation? Why should money be given? The question, [...]
Mirroring the bracketology frenzy that surrounds the NCAA’s annual hoops tourney, the Civitas Bad Bill of the Year Tournament returns with a slam-dunk skewering of some of the most egregious and outlandish legislation cooked up this year by the General Assembly. The “bad bills” were selected “based on their intrusion into the private lives of [...]
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says he doesn’t have any intention to run for president, but let’s assume a Republican wins anyway. Here’s the new commander-in-chief’s first move: tap Christie as his (or her) secretary of education – the vid below says it all. The same video also relates on a local level, just substitute [...]
Four people, all registered Democrats, have been arrested in connection with voter fraud in Wake County, and at least five others are being sought by authorities, stemming from charges of double-voting in the 2008 presidential election. Republicans have been quick to pounce on the case as a prime example of why Gov. Bev Perdue was [...]
Reflecting on the Ruling Class, as described by Codevilla, while reading “The Death of Common Sense,’” by Philip K. Howard, one can almost hear the conversations in the cloisters as judges discuss rules for the ruled. They may rationalize these decisions as benevolent to some individual or special interest group but one will notice they [...]
Dr. Mike Beitler of Guilford County announced this morning on the Curtis Wright radio program that he is seeking the Republican nomination for North Carolina Secretary of State. “I, Mike Beitler, am an official candidate for Secretary of State,” Beitler said. “The reason I am seeking the position is because Elaine Marshall has been there [...]
The story of “exorbitant pay hikes” for the North Carolina Speaker of the House’s staff has lingered since a June 11, 2011 article in Raleigh’s News and Observer Newspaper. At odds was a Tillis statement in January vowing to cut his office payroll, followed by news that raises of up to 27% had been granted [...]
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