It’s refreshing to see real brains working on the other side of the political aisle, rather than just mouths mouthing talking points. (In fact, it’s refreshing to see that on your own side.) So this “Tsunami Watch” memo by my Republican pollster friend John McLaughlin and his brother Jim caught my eye. The subhead…
Read MoreTen years ago this month, Barack Obama first streaked across the political skies with a rousing Democratic Convention speech in which he famously proclaimed there wasn’t a red America and a blue America, only one United States of America. Today President Obama presides over an America bitterly divided between red and blue. He doesn’t…
Read MoreYou had to be here in the 1950s to appreciate how much Raleigh and Wake County have changed on the way to one million people. And, to this old-timer, it’s a much better place today. We were poor, provincial, rural and racist to the core. Today we’re affluent, global in outlook, urban and suburban,…
Read MoreAs much as I respect Rob Christensen and the political experts he talked with in today’s column, I disagree with their conclusion that the money spent in the U.S. Senate race has had “little effect.” In fact, I think the ads by Senator Hagan – and on her behalf – have painted Thom Tillis…
Read MoreAccording to the Census Bureau, back in the fall of 2011 without knowing it we crossed a kind of Rubicon. Back then – during the last quarter of 2011 – 101,716,000 people had full time jobs while 108,592,000 people were receiving payments from welfare programs and, if that sounds like skating across thin ice,…
Read MoreAbout one minute after sitting down Sean launched off into a tirade saying the border children ought to all be shipped home – then he stopped and was asked, Suppose one of those children fled El Salvador (or wherever) because she’d been repeatedly gang-raped – would you send her home too? He said, Absolutely.…
Read MoreRepublicans strode up to the plate in Raleigh with big bats and high hopes, then whiffed on three straight pitches. Strike one was teacher pay. Their top goal was to stop the bleeding on education. But their so-called pay raise was so full of holes, questions and confusion that nobody is satisfied, teachers are…
Read MoreThe battered and bedraggled Tea Partiers have been taking it on the chin – they’ve gotten pounded, losing races in Tennessee, Kansas, Texas, Kentucky, South Carolina and Mississippi so, now, the press is humming their funeral dirge while Washington Republicans are chortling the Tea Party’s headed for the elephant graveyard of political movements. So…
Read MoreThirteen years ago the terrorists blew up the World Trade Center and, since the terrorists lived in Afghanistan, we attacked Afghanistan. The terrorists then moved to Pakistan but we kept right on attacking Afghanistan. A decade later we killed the lead terrorist in Pakistan but we’re still fighting in Afghanistan. In…
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