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Paying a Price Either Way

By Carter Wrenn June 6, 2024

The subject line on the top of Trump’s email leaped up off the page: ‘They were authorized to shoot me.’ He roared on, down the same road: ‘They’re just itching to do the unthinkable…locked and loaded Joe Biden’s FBI was ready to take me out.’ Was the FBI itching to assassinate Trump the day it…

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Why Rachel Hunt? Why LG?

By Gary Pearce June 6, 2024

I asked a friend to make a campaign contribution to Rachel Hunt, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, and he asked me, “Why does the lieutenant governor matter?” Here’s why. As Lieutenant Governor, Hunt will preside over the Senate – unlike Mark Robinson, who handed over his gavel to the Republican Senate leader, Phil Berger.…

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Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place

By Carter Wrenn June 5, 2024

Ole Joe Biden’s lived and breathed in the swamp for 50 years; adroit, clever, making deals handed him power, power led to fame and, after his son and brother became lobbyists, led to family money. Clever, but in a different way, standing in the spotlight, as a showman Trump’s in a league of his own.…

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No Defending Trump

By Gary Pearce June 4, 2024

It’s striking what Republican politicians didn’t say after Trump was convicted of 34 counts of felony falsification of business records. They didn’t say, “Trump is an honest businessman. He’d never falsify business records.” Or, “Trump is a fine family man. He’d never cheat on his wife with a porn star.” Or, “Trump is an honest…

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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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Does This Work?

By Gary Pearce February 23, 2025

Does a message about “workers,” “working families” and “working-class voters” really work for Democrats? Or does…

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Out of Touch

By Gary Pearce February 20, 2025

I’ve resisted the temptation to rail every day about Trump’s cruelty, corruption and incompetence – and…

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Jeanette Hyde

By Gary Pearce February 14, 2025

Jeanette Hyde went from Miss Yadkin County to Madam Ambassador. Hyde, who died Monday at age…

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