Category Archives: NC News

WRAL Declares McCrory Broke Abortion Promise

WRAL also highlights that they are a station of abortion fanatics McCrory signs abortion, gun rights changes into law Gov. Pat McCrory signed 18 bills Monday, including two of the more controversial of the recently ended legislative session – those dealing with gun rights and abortion clinics. Supporters of Senate Bill 353, including the governor, […]

Bummer: NC Blowing Off “Climate Change”

Democrats are pissed, but, hey, they lost the General Assembly because people were tired of Dem policies, among others (News And Record) After initiating some of the country’s earliest state-sponsored research and response to climate change, the legislature has all but dropped the issue. The state agency that once identified climate change adaptation as a […]

Liberals Having Fits Over NC Gov. McCrory Stating He Will Sign Bills They Hate

Elections have consequences. Obama got his failed and wasteful Stimulus, along with the heavily unpopular Obamacare. NC Senator Richard Burr and Tom Coburn are right, shutting down government to defund Obamacare is the wrong way to go about it. Whether we like it or not, Obamacare is the law: it needs to repealed by Congress, […]

Slate Wonders What Went Wrong With North Carolina

Well, we decided we didn’t want to be Detroit (Slate) North Carolina is proving itself to be the poster child for all that is wrong with modern American democracy and—with thanks to Moral Mondays—also highlighting all that may someday save it. Ironically, as I’ve mentioned, Moral Monday has added abortion on demand to their list […]

NC General Assembly Passes Smart, Real World Gun Legislation

This is not “common sense” reform, ie, massive restrictions on the 2nd Amendment Rights of law abiding citizens, but real world reforms that make sense. And will surely piss off Liberals who hate the notion of Other People owning guns (WRAL) The state House and Senate have approved a sweeping package of gun lawsthat tighten […]

Liberals Shriek Over NC Commonsense Voter Regulations

The NC Senate has proposed a few simple voting changes Senate Republican leaders are planning to take a voter ID bill and add provisions that cut early voting by a week, repeal same-day registration, allow counties to limit Sunday voting, end pre-registration of 16- and 17-year-olds and end straight-ticket voting. Other provisions increase the maximum […]

NC Democrats Admit They Really Hate Citizens Keeping More Of Their Own Money

They can exclaim whatever talking point they want, but in any tax reform debate it’s easy to see that Democrats hate The Government getting less money and citizens keeping more of what they earn (WRAL) Lawmakers and Gov. Pat McCrory struck a deal on tax reform Monday, ending a weeks-long impasse over how to rewrite […]

Irony: “Moral Monday” Crowd To Rally For Abortion Rights

They’re doing their best to position today’s crazy protest as about being for “women’s rights”, but since the big topic over the last two weeks here in North Carolina has been legislation instituting a few basic, minor common sense solutions regarding abortion, we know what they mean (WRAL) The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP […]

NC House Passes Common Sense Abortion Bill

Democrats are very, very, very unhappy that this occurred (WRAL) The state House on Thursday approved a proposal to add regulations to the operations of North Carolina abortion clinics. The House voted 74-41 in favor of the bill, which now returns to the Senate for a final vote before going to Gov. Pat McCrory. He […]

NY Times Really Concerned About North Carolina Losing Its “Progressive” Cred

I’m devastated (WRAL) A Wednesday editorial in The New York Times is the latest blow to North Carolina’s reputation as a progressive state. Headlined “The Decline of North Carolina,” the editorial criticizes the “grotesque damage” created by the Republican-led General Assembly. “State government has become a demolition derby, tearing down years of progress in public […]

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