The week began with Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez resigning and ended with Senator Larry Craig caught in a toilet tryst.  Cheap jokes and Dem...

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In 200 years no President has ever had his legal powers taken from him. But, in addition to his legal powers, a President must also have a political m...

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Developer John Kane’s back, asking the City Council to give him $75 million in public money (tax breaks) to subsidize the expansion of North Hills Mal...

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If you’re a taxpayer in Roanoke Rapids you’re a guarantor on the city’s $21.5 million loan to Randy Parton to build the Randy Parton Theatre. But if y...

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Say you are a candidate and need to get in step with Republican voters on immigration, because your record wasn’t quite what it should be.   Th...

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A poll last week seemed to support Karl Rove’s argument that Hillary Clinton is a “fatally flawed” candidate.  But the results may say more about...

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Rudy Giuliani has done a little lily gilding of his own, declaring in a campaign appearance he’d “been in the ruins of the World Trade Center Towers a...

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It wasn’t too long ago that John Edwards running for Senate as a moderate choirboy was promising to stay above gutter politics and negative smears. By...

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I confess to not knowing much about Senator Janet Cowell from Raleigh, who wants to run for State Treasurer.   But she did something rare for a...

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Richard Moore’s campaign believes the fix is in for Beverly Perdue at the N.C. Association of Educators.   Moore sent a letter to the NCAE Pres...

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