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Entries for December 2008
Carter Wrenn posted on December 17, 2008 11:03
A group of my friends have been having a more or less ongoing debate between ‘Decliners’ and ‘Optimists.”
The ‘Decliners’ take one look at, f...
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Gary Pearce posted on December 17, 2008 10:27
I take a back seat to no one when it comes to being a John F. Kennedy hero-worshipper. I shook hands with him in 1960. I was 11 years old. He was camp...
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Carter Wrenn posted on December 16, 2008 16:39
A year ago Democrats couldn’t dredge up a candidate against Liddy Dole – now they’ve got ‘em coming out of the woodwork to take on Richard Burr.
&nbs...
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Gary Pearce posted on December 16, 2008 14:41
Governor-elect Bev Perdue has done a lot of listening lately. Maybe too much.
The highly publicized public forums that her transition team he...
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Gary Pearce posted on December 16, 2008 08:20
Republicans today remind me of Democrats after Reagan won in 1980: Determined to become a permanent minority party.
If I could be a mole and ...
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Gary Pearce posted on December 15, 2008 14:17
After the election, people would ask me: “Aren’t you glad the campaign is over?”
Hell, no. I miss it. I miss the wall-to-wall attack ads. I m...
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Carter Wrenn posted on December 12, 2008 15:21
Well, the parole system is broken and according to the News and Observer all kinds of parolees have been running around unsupervised and literally kil...
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Gary Pearce posted on December 12, 2008 12:17
Andy Jackson would roll over in his grave.
I just read Jon Meacham’s new biography, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. Meacham shows ...
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Carter Wrenn posted on December 11, 2008 14:48
After I read Gary’s blog yesterday I called and asked for a copy of the article where Rep. House Republican Leader Paul Stam declared offshore oil der...
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Carter Wrenn posted on December 11, 2008 12:50
Obama’s now sailed into the seas called the Terrors of Victory;—after a fellow wins something as grand as a presidential election he’s just naturally ...
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