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Compensation for members of the North Carolina General Assembly; lawmaker per-diem reimbursements; tax breaks for legislators

Back in early December 2019 I wrote a short essay, a critique of the media “fact checker,” PolitiFact.  PolitiFact is one of several such organizations that reviews for truthfulness not only political assertions made by politicians but various claims and statements in everything from climate change, to immigration, to economics.  PolitiFact and groups like it have become a standard fall back source enabling the media to solemnly pronounce on just about anything said or written appearing in the public square.  And thus supposedly giving the media the right to assert a kind of infalli...

Some liberal pundits have labeled Black Republicans as racists solely based on the political party they represent.  The most recent example came Thursday when late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel mocked Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., saying the senator, who recently made headlines for his response to President Biden's address before Congress, "let the American people know the Republican Party isn't racist." Scott said in his Wednesday night rebuttal to the president that America is "not a racist country," sparking backlash from some Democrats on social media. However, prominent Democrats including Bi...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. North Carolina’s first Black lieutenant governor blasted a local news outlet Wednesday after it ran a political cartoon depicting Republicans as KKK members. "I have pretty thick skin," Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson told Fox News Wednesday evening. "I expect to be criticized heavily in this job by people who disagree with my political views, my social views." But Raleigh-based WRAL’s political cartoon, published Tuesday, crossed the line, he said. It shows an elephant wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe labeled "GOP Members...

Republican North Carolina Lt. Governor Mark Robinson denounced a cartoon that depicted Republicans on the State Board of Education as members of the KKK.