The Turks will not like this one bit.

Always good to see fewer Republican Senators even if only temporarily.

Good idea that doesn't have a snowball's chance of becoming law.

More: In a post on the Old North State Politics blog, Catawba College political science professor Michael Bitzer wrote of the early voting surge: "Democrats appear to have generated disproportionate early energy, both among registered partisans and among unaffiliated voters. The fact that more than half of Unaffiliated voters chose the Democratic ballot " reversing the traditional go where the action is' pattern " is one of the cycle's most intriguing developments."

"The question now," Bitzer wrote, "is not whether early voting was strong. It was. The question is what these patterns signal about overall turnout " and whether Election Day reinforces or rebalances what early voting has already revealed."

North Carolina Democrats are heading toward November with a clear advantage in public opinion, according to a High Point University Poll released on Monday.

The survey of registered voters asked how they would vote for generic ballots for the House and Senate. In both cases, those responding intended to vote Democratic 46% to 41% percent for Republicans. It was the same margin when voters were asked how they would vote in state House and Senate elections.

Unless there is a dramatic change in the economy or a major national event, it appears that Democrats are ready to ride a wave of support driven mostly on disapproval of the Republicans' performance in both Washington and Raleigh.

More: The department's failure to build a criminal case against Mr. Biden and his aides is the latest example of its increasing inability to follow through on Mr. Trump's demands and bring indictments against those he wants to be criminally targeted. Some of those cases were rejected by grand juries, some were rejected by judges and some, like the autopen case, were abandoned by prosecutors.

But the fact that prosecutors even pursued the matter to begin with reflects the degree to which Mr. Trump has sought to use the levers of government to undermine Mr. Biden's presidency by seizing on an unsubstantiated theory: that the pardons Mr. Biden issued in his final months in office were invalid because he did not have the mental capacity to consent to them.

They had many Exocets when I was over there on float in the 90s.

Sucks Tillis waited until the very end of his political career to grow a spine. NC deserved better representation.

Skilled piloting is not a miracle, just good training.

Guess the Santa Claus defense didn't work out. Nice to read some good news for a change.

This time they'll listen for sure! /s

Impeach the mother ------ ffs

Nothing builds trust like corrupt agencies investigating themselves.

Will everyone wear a red neckerchief in remembrance?

They found out.

Is this because Trump's DOJ is so egregious they started to lie to the courts recently or because they're so incompetent they are screwing up underhandedness that has always been a tool used by DOJ but overlooked by deferent judges?

In case you missed the reference

More: According to court documents, the dispute began when Konan discovered the mailbox key for one of her rental properties had been changed without her knowledge, preventing her from collecting and distributing tenants' mail from the box. When she contacted the local post office, she was told she wouldn't receive a new key or regular delivery until she proved she owned the property. She did so, the documents say, but the mail problems continued, despite the USPS inspector general instructing the mail to be delivered.

Konan alleges the employees marked some of the mail as undeliverable or return to sender. Konan and her tenants failed to receive important mail such as bills, medications and car titles, according to the lawsuit. Konan also claims she lost rental income because some tenants moved out due to the situation.

After filing dozens of complaints with postal officials, Konan finally filed a lawsuit under the 1946 Federal Tort Claims Act, which allows some lawsuits against the government. The case focused on the reach of the special postal exemption to the law.

I'm not fixated at all I used it as an example, a reference I knew we both understood.

You don't get a choice as to whether to attend K-12 grade school either

Kids drop out of school every day.

"Two years of your life for your country is not too much to ask."

It is if they don't want to do it.

I gave the USMC four years, by the way. Voluntarily.

But you don't get the most important thing, a choice.

You're 100% right Twin.

But proof has never mattered in the court of public opinion. Who needs verifiable facts when someone "just knows?"

Compulsory service is not a career. It's a sentence. It's how you end up with a military full of criminals like the Russians have. We got rid of things like judges sentencing criminals to military duty over prison when we got rid of the draft. I for one don't want to see it come back.