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The Pier that Broke Apart

By Carter Wrenn June 4, 2024

Facing pro-Palestinian protests, purring compassion Biden spent $320 million building a pier on the Gaza coast to get supplies ashore. The pier was completed on May 17. Eight days later broke apart, floating away, fell into pieces. The supplies Biden had sent into Gaza were looted by Hamas. Compassion didn’t end well without competence. That’s…

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A Fumble

By Carter Wrenn June 3, 2024

Pointing to the courthouse where Trump was on trial Biden’s press spokesman told reporters with a straight face, ‘We’re not here to talk about the trial’ – then movie star Robert de Niro stepped to the microphone and said everybody knew Trump was guilty. Protestors howled at De Niro, he yelled back, Trump’s ‘a clown.’…

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The Witness Who Didn’t Show Up

By Carter Wrenn May 31, 2024

Trump’s trial ended. And the media – CNN, Fox, MSNBC, Newsnation – is on fire. Michael Cohen testified he and Trump met – after Trump won the election – and agreed on how to repay him back for hush money he paid Stormy Daniels. Trump says that’s pure blarney. It never happened. But would Cohen…

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Hold the Line

By Gary Pearce May 31, 2024

“We’ve been flanked and we’ve lost the line!” – Metropolitan Police radio, January 6, 2021 Fifty years ago this summer, the American system held up against the criminal presidency of Richard Nixon. Trump makes Nixon look like an Eagle Scout. Will the system hold up this year against a convicted felon, fraud and rapist –…

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Democrats Exposed

By Gary Pearce May 30, 2024

We’ve been outed, Democrats. A wily Republican strategist, Matt Wylie, has exposed our real agenda. In an op-ed in The Charlotte Observer, Wylie warned his party what America will face if Democrats win this year: “Increasing the federal minimum wage to $17/hour, incorporating provisions of the Green New Deal, implementing new federal voting rights mandates,…

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The Adult in the Room

By Carter Wrenn May 30, 2024

Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan’s daughter, writing a column, remembered watching the Kennedy-Nixon debate with her father, said Kennedy and Nixon ‘probably didn’t like each other’ but were ‘unfailingly polite in their disagreements,’ concluded that’s how adults were ‘supposed to behave’ back then. She talked next about Jimmy Carter’s debate with her father – about Carter…

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Gag Orders

By Carter Wrenn May 29, 2024

Trump’s gone from sitting in court getting sued to suing. At the Cannes Film Festival a filmmaker played his movie, The Apprentice, a biography  about Trump as a young man building his real estate empire in Manhattan, his first marriage to Ivana, his friendship with Roy Cohn. Who knows how much was true. But it…

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Trump’s Reich

By Gary Pearce May 28, 2024

Surely, I thought, this isn’t true. Not even the Trump-MAGA crowd would boast that one result of Trump’s election would be a “Unified Reich.” “Reich.” Like Hitler’s Third Reich. But there it was, on Trump’s Truth Social account, among messages flashing across the screen: “Trump wins!!”, “Economy booms!” and – yes – a headline with…

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The Circus is Back

By Carter Wrenn May 28, 2024

Taunting Trump, Biden quipped, ‘He’s not a good loser – but he is a loser.’ Taunting again, mocking Trump saying ‘injecting bleach’ might stop coronavirus, quipped, ‘I think that’s what he did. That’s why he’s so screwy.’ Biden also said when he took office inflation was 9% – even CNN couldn’t shallow that one, pointed…

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Grinch Griffin

By Gary Pearce December 22, 2024

The Grinch tried to steal Christmas. Jefferson Griffin is trying to steal an election at Christmas.…

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Tall Tales?

By Carter Wrenn December 20, 2024

I might be wrong but a story one of Kamala Harris’ political wizards told after she…

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Jim Hunt’s Gift

By Gary Pearce December 19, 2024

Forty years ago this month, at a low point in his political career, Jim Hunt had…

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