First of all a warning: I am a Democrat. You cannot trust a partisan commentator to give an objective report on a political contest like a debate between candidates for the United States Senate. Now... Read More
He is number 42," I said. On a baseball outing with my daughter’s family the other night, I was trying to find the name of a player on the Durham Bulls baseball team while the Bulls were playing a... Read More
The most important thing the legislature did this year is what it did not do. Instead of adjourning and closing down as is customary shortly after the state’s budget has been revised, the... Read More
Things are good! Sometimes, like the other day, I want to get up and shout it out. For instance, last week at a Rotary club meeting, Frank Hill, leader of The Institute for the Public Trust, was... Read More
I don’t read the Washington Post. That is not where I get my ideas.” Many years ago when there were still lots of conservatives voting in Democratic primaries, a congressional candidate pandered... Read More
Voters born elsewhere make up nearly half of N.C. electorate.” So begins the latest DataNet report from the UNC Program on Public Life, directed by former journalist Ferrel Guillory. So what? What... Read More
You see him and ask: ‘Why is the statue still here? What was it he actually stood for?’ This is the kind of debate that a public work of art makes possible. We won't change the way people think... Read More
What was the lesson we were taught twice last week? Once by Dave Brat, the congressional candidate who defeated House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor? And again by the insurgent forces of ISIS (Islamic... Read More
Romney for President. Get used to the idea. But, you say, Mitt Romney has made it clear that he is not interested in running again. He is a two-time loser, which makes him damaged property. And the... Read More
There’s a secret nobody in the Raleigh power establishment will confirm. It is this. Our Republican governor, Pat McCrory, would not mind if there were a few more Democrats in the General Assembly... Read More
