Author: TarheelDem

Billmon has a Twitter essay.     Billmon ‏@billmon1 29m29 minutes ago     1) Leaving aside political stupidity of excluding indies from major party primaries, the practice relies on a myth — one...

Going out on a limb here. My predictions for SC GOP primary: Trump Kasich Cruz Rubio Carson Bush Let’s see how close I come. Carson and Bush out altogether by SuperTuesday. My prediction for next week’s Democratic...

Alec MacGillis, NY Times Opinion: Who Turned My Blue State Red MacGillis looks at eastern Kentucky and finds that it is the addicted relatives who are stuck on welfare that drive animosity to social programs.  As in black...

The REINS Act would override all regulation that affected more than “0.0006 percent of the nation’s economy unless this regulation is approved by Congress “by the end of 70 session days or legislative...

The New Zealand Foreign Affairs and Trade ministry has published the full text online. New Zealand Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trans-Pacific Partnership – full textIt is not as long as it appears because of the way the text...