What does it take to get a Huffington Post journalist to apologize? The class and grace of someone like GOP Senator Tim Scott. On Wednesday, videos and photos circulated showing the South Carolina Senator standing alongside President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and various members of Congress during a presser celebrating the passage of the tax reform bill. As The State notes:
North Carolina’s Rev. William Barber has landed himself in hot water this week over remarks he made over the weekend on MSNBC’s AM Joy show regarding prayer and faith leaders who pray for elected officials:
My latest at IJ Review discusses how the national NAACP has stepped in to investigate the Winston-Salem, NC branch after allegations and complaints surfaced of vote tampering, paper ballots (supposedly against the rules), and campaign literature being illegally distributed at a January election of executive board members.
My latest at IJ Review is about how a new group of so-called “centrist” elected Democrats in the North Carolina state house have formed in an effort to show North Carolinians that not only are there still some pro-business Dems left in NC, but also that not the entire party has gone off the deep end. Their hope is to try and turn the party around to where they are winning elections again and are no longer alienating moderates and conservatives that used to be well within their ranks but who are becoming increasingly dissatisfied at some of the positions state and national Democrats have taken. Judging by how the “progressive” Moral Monday movement has taken hold (see photo above), I’d say their concerns about the direction of their party are well-founded.
The far left Daily Kos-led Netroots Nation conference was held this past weekend and, not to be outdone by the other extremist speakers who would get their chance at the mic after him, NC NAACP’s Rev. William “Moral Monday” Barber made sure to remind the Democrat party faithful in his opening keynote of what he (and they) perceive are the ‘real’ reasons why Republicans pass laws like Voter ID and refuse to budge on President Obama’s agenda:
Hey, don’t take my word for it. Via the Raleigh News and Observer (bolded emphasis added by me):
