Let’s set the national frame with this from The NYTimes: Donald J. Trump was convicted on Thursday of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened to derail his 2016 presidential campaign, capping an extraordinary trial that tested the resilience of the American justice system and transformed the […]
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By Todd Collins Editor’s note: with the visibility regarding House Bill 237, the ‘mask bill‘ that passed the North Carolina State Senate this week and sent to the State House, ONSP asked Dr. Todd Collins (a licensed attorney and legal/political scholar with extensive experience in the courtroom and the classroom) to […]
By Michael Bitzer I recently joined WUNC’s Due South to talk about ticket-splitting voters, especially in North Carolina. The dynamic of ticket-splitting is often associated with how presidential and congressional candidates do within a district: we may hear of a Biden-Republican congressional representative district, or a Trump-Democratic district as a […]
Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares and cash from Trump’s media company. The benefits have flowed from Trump’s businesses and campaign committees, according to a […]
Religious Change in America Stephan: This is the best most meticulous research paper I have seen about religion in the United States. The one thing that stands out for me is the perversion of Christianity into christofascism by the evangelical fundamentalist movement. Executive Summary America encompasses a rich diversity […]
The ideas of Labour, Greens and Lib Dems offering us a future abundance of cheap renewable electricity is a dangerous deceit.We lack the guard capacity to shift more to electrical operation and to handle more renewable generation from far off and unreliable wind turbines. It is an absurd lie that […]
The U.K. needs to go further than adopting a more realistic rhetoric about getting to net zero. It needs to keep recent policy changes and add additional ones 1 Policies to keep It needs to extract more U.K. oil and gas in place of more LNG and oil imports It […]
You Don’t Say “I think it’s the funniest bill I’ve ever heard of because you have to be an American citizen to vote.” Rep. Allison Dahle, D-Wake, on a bill that would alter the wording of the state constitution on citizen voting requirements without changing the law. (Wilmington StarNews, 6/03/24) Voting […]
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Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castbox | PocketCasts | Overcast Mike & Jay open with a discussion of Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records. Mike isn’t crazy about the law but believes that the prosecutor, judge, and jury acted reasonably in applying it. Jay discusses […]
