Talking About Politics

Fifty-four years ago this week, on May 8, 1970, 4,500 students from nearly a dozen colleges and universities marched on Capitol Square in Raleigh to protest the Vietnam War. Four days earlier, Na...

https://talkingaboutpolitics.com/protests-and-presidents/

A peasant’s son Martin Luther never knew the year he was born. Believing children were wicked his father whipped him, his mother caned him. Luther’s harsh life led him to take refuge in the c...

https://talkingaboutpolitics.com/a-world-lit-only-by-fire-part-iii/

After Rodrigo Borgia died, soft-spoken but cunning Leo de Medici became pope, after bribing cardinals ended up strapped for cash. A German prince said he wanted to be an Archbishop. Leo told him ...

https://talkingaboutpolitics.com/a-world-lit-only-by-fire-part-ii/

It was a time, Tom Hanks wrote describing the end of the Middle Ages, when dukes and serfs paid popes to keep from going to hell. The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not an empire....

https://talkingaboutpolitics.com/a-world-lit-only-by-fire-part-i/

Planned Parenthood’s spending a ton of money – $10 million – to elect pro-abortion candidates in North Carolina. Eyes locked on white suburban women it’s running digital ads, knocking on ...

https://talkingaboutpolitics.com/trust-flies-out-the-window/

The Republican legislature may not vote for Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s school plan, but North Carolinians can in November. The Governor has drawn a line in the sand – and a clear line o...

https://talkingaboutpolitics.com/a-school-test/

New data shows that North Carolina Democrats are right to look for votes on country roads and small-town streets. A group called Rural Democracy Initiative – “Communities, Not Corporations”...

https://talkingaboutpolitics.com/democrats-country-inroads/

We don’t know much about him – he grew up in a village on the coast of Long Island, bowled in high school, sang karaoke, got two college degrees, moved to St. Augustine, Florida. His mother, ...

https://talkingaboutpolitics.com/a-lost-soul/

Two things this past weekend made me feel good about this election. First, I crashed a women’s fundraiser for Rachel Hunt, the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor. Second, I posted on X/...

https://talkingaboutpolitics.com/rachel-hunt-and-maga-meltdown/

Trump rolled through two civil trials, hardly blinking, defiant, but at the end of the first week of his criminal trial sitting at the defense table staring straight ahead, eyes sagging, he looke...

https://talkingaboutpolitics.com/trumps-ordeal-week-1/