RALEIGH – It is still the spitting image of a pig. They tried all day to doll it up as something else. They smeared its snout with ruby-red lipstick. They tried on a silky white dress, then a blue satin one. They pushed it up on its hind legs and attempted to induce a shimmy. All to no avail. You can’t put lipstick on a pig and transform it into a debutante. It remains a swine. As do, if you’ll pardon the stretched metaphor, both the events of Tuesday and their perpetrators. By a 25-24 vote, the North Carolina Senate...