North Carolina
Is the Lottery Illegal?
Now that the North Carolina Legislature has passed the ill-advised lottery bill, and we’re well on the way to having what appears to be the most wasteful and corrupt lottery in the land, storms are appearing on the horizon. The biggest storm, right now, is a lawsuit against the legislature charging that the lottery was [...]
Mike Easley – NC’s Jimmy Carter
North Carolina’s Governor Mike Easley is a self-serving, camera-hogging, intellectual lightweight. It’s really sad. His main qualification for being elected in the first place was that he used public funds to put his own face on TV across the state while he was our useless Attorney General. At no time during his governorship has he [...]
Tar Heel Blogwatch – How Did I Miss This?
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Raleigh’s News and Observer has a blog just for watching North Carolina blogs. It’s called Tar Heel Blogwatch, and it seems to be a good place to add to my watchlist. They’ve even got an entry pointing to a post by my friend Sarah Ovenall. I’ll be watching [...]
Lottery on Verge of Failing – YAY!
The prospects (this year) of North Carolina getting a lottery are walking a thin line. According to this article in the News and Observer, it would only take one vote switch to have the lottery pass. Let’s hope that such a switch doesn’t occur. “Although the Democratic leadership supports a lottery, five Democratic senators are [...]
New Bills for NC Legislature
North Carolina’s Legislature, currently in control of the Democratic Party, isn’t known for doing too many smart things. If there’s a bad idea to be put forth, you can look to the Legislative Building in Raleigh to find a copy of the bill. In order to allow time for bills to go through both houses [...]
North Carolina Politics At Its Finest
There’s nothing like good government. Unfortunately, here in North Carolina, there really is nothing even resembling good government. The latest flak in the air is a conflict between Democrat Governor Mike Easley and the Democrat controlled legislature. It seems that there’s a valuable piece of real-estate in downtown Charlotte that the state wants to dispose [...]
North Carolina’s Broken Arrow
There has been a decent amount of news coverage, lately, dedicated to the two nuclear weapons that were lost off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. Marginal Revolution even made mention of the event. I thought it would be a good occasion to revisit a story I originally wrote for my first blog, “Tar [...]
Political Life in the Tar Heel State
What’s wrong with the Republican Party in North Carolina? Why do they have such a hard time getting elected in this state? Why is it, after all these years, that North Carolina is still practically a one-party state?