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Reform-mania

Gary Pearce posted on August 16, 2006 14:53

Nothing is quite so repellent – or dangerous – as a politician in the throes of reform-mania. Witness the North Carolina legislature. To start ...

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The Blue Ribbon Panel

Carter Wrenn posted on August 16, 2006 14:52

Gary and John Hood of the Locke Foundation are having a little debate about the Blue Ribbon Commission. I recently read the Commission’s report. It sa...

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Terror Politics: The Democrats

Gary Pearce posted on August 15, 2006 13:09

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee knows how to fight back. Its new web ad blasts the Bush record on protecting America: “Not enough troop...

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Terror Politics: The Republicans

Gary Pearce posted on August 15, 2006 13:07

I’m not the only one suspicious of the timing of last week’s airport-terror scare. As Keith Olderman pointed out on MSMBC’s Countdown Monday night, t...

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Picasso or P.T. Barnum?

Carter Wrenn posted on August 15, 2006 13:06

Is the dingus Spanish impresario Jaume Plensa wants to build in the middle of Fayetteville Street the most brilliant work of modern art in the twenty-...

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The N&O's big boo-boo

Gary Pearce posted on August 14, 2006 11:39

Since I got my first job as a copyboy at The News & Observer 41 years ago this summer, my life has been inextricably intertwined with that paper. ...

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In Defense of Jim Black

Gary Pearce posted on August 14, 2006 11:37

Everybody’s piling on Jim Black. So I’ll dissent. First of all, enough with Republicans decrying a pay-to-play system in Raleigh. It’s a ...

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Republicans at Bat - at Last

Carter Wrenn posted on August 14, 2006 11:36

Republicans are airing their first TV ad about the pay to play scandals. State Senator Andrew Brock’s ad calls on “embattled House Speaker Jim Black t...

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City Debt - Up, Up, Up!

Carter Wrenn posted on August 14, 2006 11:34

According to the News and Observer (7/24/06), since Mayor Meeker took office Raleigh’s debt has tripled. In a few weeks, on September 30, for the firs...

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Terror Politics

Gary Pearce posted on August 11, 2006 10:26

It didn’t take Bush and the Republicans long to turn the airline-terror plot against Democrats. “Defeatocrats,” one blared. Cheney didn’t even wait ...

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