As long as we’re getting rid of bigotry in politics …
Jeffrey C. Billman
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Trump Believes His Own Hype, But Pelosi Knows She’s Not Playing Against the Varsity
Nancy’s got him by the short hairs, but his ego’s too big to realize it.
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Exclusive: Lawsuits Accuse Duke University of Concealing Child Sex Abuse at Its Camp for Chronically Ill Kids
Duke has denied the allegations of sexual assault and a cover-up. But something disturbing happened in July 2017—and then the beloved Camp Kaleidoscope abruptly closed.
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George Holding and Thom Tillis Think You’re Too Stupid to Stop Voting for Them
But term limits won’t happen, so an NC newspaper thinks we should just let right-wingers rewrite the Constitution. Politics is weird.
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I’ve Seen That Look Before
That shit-eating grin. That smug condescension. That entitlement that comes from a lifetime of consequence-free privilege. I recognized it immediately. I grew up surrounded by it.
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Young, Unaffiliated, Hispanic, and Asian-American Voters Drove Surge in N.C. Midterm Turnout: Report
Turnout rose from 44 percent in 2014 to 53 percent in 2018.
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Donald Trump (Allegedly) Suborned Perjury, So Of Course Tim Moore Wants Him to Come Hang Out in North Carolina
And give his State of the Union here. Sure, why not?
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UNC Board of Governors Member Thom Goolsby’s Got a Plan to Re-Erect Silent Sam
And he wants to surround it with reminders that Democrats are the real racists.
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Carol Folt Took the Law Into Her Hands on Her Way Out the Door. Good for Her.
Silent Sam frustrated the UNC chancellor throughout her tenure. For her final act, she got rid of the damn thing.
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There Is No Crisis on the Southern Border, You Rubes
Think of this “national emergency” as a national IQ test, a chance to see just how gullible the president’s base is and how far the Republican Party will go to prop up its increasingly addled leader.
