February 9th, 2012
Freshman Austin Rivers stunned North Carolina with his game winning buzzer beater last night that gave the Blue Devils an 85-84 win over the Tar Heels. (more)
February 2nd, 2012
North Carolina’s Democratic Party just had a terrible day, and so President Barack Obama’s re-election team had a bad day, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi had an off day. (more)
January 26th, 2012
North Carolina Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue suddenly dropped out of her own 2012 election race Thursday, likely helping President Barack Obama’s chances in the state. (more)
January 26th, 2012
Rumors began swirling early Thursday morning that North Carolina’s Democratic governor, Bev Perdue, would soon be announcing that she would not seek a second term. The embattled governor had been performing poorly in statewide polls and faced a strong challenge from Republican Charlotte Mayor Pat McCroy, who she ran against in the 2008 election. (more)
January 26th, 2012
North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue (D) is set to announce today that she will not seek reelection in 2012, according to two sources familiar with her plans. (more)
January 25th, 2012
If you thought murdering a 17-year-old woman was North Carolina death row inmate Danny Hembree’s low point, think again. Instead of contemplating the meaning of life as he awaits execution, Hembree has been writing to The Gaston Gazette about what a great time he’s having behind bars. (more)
January 20th, 2012
A day after the Democratic National Convention Committee reiterated that Charlotte’s gathering would be “the most open and accessible in history,” 500 media representatives were given a tour Wednesday of their September digs. (more)
January 17th, 2012
The Democrats’ 2012 convention will begin at the blue-collar Charlotte Motor Speedway and end at the nearby Bank of America football stadium, home to the Carolina Panthers and a myriad skybox-renting plutocrats, executives and 1 percenters. (more)
January 13th, 2012
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) – A federal judge says she has two letters from a cardiologist saying ex-presidential candidate John Edwards has a life-threatening condition that will require surgery in February.
December 26th, 2011
A U.S. District Court judge has rejected a challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — filled when the Department of Justice barred the city of Kinston, N.C. from holding nonpartisan elections — reasoning that lack of access to party affiliation would discriminate against minority voters who otherwise wouldn’t know how to find Democratic candidates on a ballot. (more)
December 19th, 2011
Staffers working for the Democratic governor of swing-state North Carolina have been using embargoed federal data for political advantage, putting state employees at risk of jail time, according to emails uncovered by the free-market John Locke Foundation. (more)
December 15th, 2011
North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx said on the House floor Thursday that the federal government will be “shelling out” $200 million to cover the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Service’s “incompetence” and “inability” to keep “a lid” on costs for an upgrade to their Medicaid billing system. (more)
December 14th, 2011
President Barack Obama has begun trying to reach military voters from the campaign trail, praising soldiers’ accomplishments and scaling back his portrayal of soldiers as wounded warriors dependent on government services. (more)
November 30th, 2011
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A spokesman for the Rev. Billy Graham has been taken to a hospital near his home in North Carolina for treatment of his lungs. (more)
November 21st, 2011
The North Carolina Democratic Party has focused a campaign against Republicans in the state, claiming that the GOP-controlled state legislature is “waging a war on women” due to the way new legislative districts have been re-drawn. (more)
November 9th, 2011
Ilario Pantano, a former Marine who was wrongly accused of murdering two Iraqis in 2004, is looking to become the first Republican to represent North Carolina’s 7th Congressional District since Reconstruction. (more)
November 9th, 2011
The taxman got an early Christmas present from the Obama administration this week with the approval of a new fee on all fresh Christmas trees. (more)
November 7th, 2011
Charlotte, N.C. Mayor Anthony Foxx, a Democrat with close ties to President Barack Obama, is taking political heat as several reports show he plans to replace local workers with out-of-state union workers during the Democratic National Convention next year. (more)
October 25th, 2011
Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, a member of the House Rules Committee, said on the House floor that Congress did not pass President Barack Obama’s jobs bill because his own party “did not want to support” the plan. (more)
October 17th, 2011
President Obama, in keeping with his recent habit of only visiting states that are important to his electoral prospects, is back in North Carolina this week. During previous presidential visits to the Land of the Pines, Americans for Tax Reform has highlighted the damaging economic effects that Obama’s fiscal policies have had — or will have — on the Tar Heel State. During Obama’s June visit to Durham, N.C., I noted in The Daily Caller the adverse impact that the president’s FY 2012 budget proposal would have on the small businesses that drive North Carolina’s economy. (more)
