Steven Camarota writes for the New York Post about immigration’s impact on American elections. Immigrants don’t need to have the right to vote to affect elections in the United States…
Paul Mirengoff of the Power Line blog ponders the impact of age on the nation’s No. 1 deliberative body. The Washington Post reports that the current U.S. Senate is the…
Editors at National Review Online pan congressional Democrats’ proposal to make the District of Columbia a state. Even if the D.C. statehood effort had a reasonable chance of passage, however,…
Brooke Conrad reports for Carolina Journal Online on the political impact of the General Assembly’s plan to approve pieces of the vetoed state budget. Becki Gray’s Daily Journal explains why…
Syndicated columnist John Hood looks at interesting results from the Elon University poll about who knows what about whom when it comes to elected representatives — including North Carolina sheriffs. …
The Mountain Xpress has a long article on the need to get more women elected? Why? Because identity politics reinforces prejudice.
Ok, not exactly the Super Bowl, but battles bewteen the daily N&R and the-alt-weekly Rhino have gone at it over the years but why not give a nod to today’s…
What exactly are women’s issues and who should be in charge of them? During the latest General Assembly session women chaired important committees in the House including Appropriations, Banking, Education,…
Something there is that doesn’t like a wall, and something there is that does. Determining where jurisdictions of office holders ought to be is racist, ethnocentric, classist, or some kind…
My wise sister was in town yesterday. She spoke intelligently and insightfully about a number of issues pertinent to good government. Had I written a newspaper article about the things…
Donna wrote last week about local governments hiring lobbyists to advocate on their behalf, using of course, taxpayer money to do so. Now, add Asheville to the list of municipalities…
Should one be amused at rationalizations for political maneuvers? One of nine public input video conferences was hosted at Appalachian State College in Boone. The purpose was to solicit feedback…