Trump may have the Republican nomination locked up, but he’s losing a lot of Republicans. He lost 32% of the Republican vote in Michigan, 40% in South Carolina and over 45% in New Hampshire. In South Carolina, he lost Independents to Nikki Haley by 60-40. That’s how you lose in November. He’s also losing his…
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A reporter asked House Speaker Mike Johnson, “Do you believe Biden’s presidency is God’s will?’ Johnson said he’s a Bible believing Christian and the Bible says God’s sovereign so, yes, Biden’s election was God’s will. Steve Bannon the MAGA Trumpster erupted on his podcast, ‘Be prepared for your heads to blow up,’ played the video…
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Ukraine. Israel. Two wars that look different but have a lot in common. In both wars China, Russia, and Iran are on one side – while we’re on the other. China, Russia, and Iran are all dictatorships – while we’re a democracy. Three decades of peace followed the end of the Cold War – a…
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In ancient times men worshiped idols made of stone or gold, like the ‘Golden Calf’ the Israelites bowed to at the foot of Mt. Sinai. Time rolled by and ideologies (promising salvation) took the place of golden idols. Surrounded by threats, with Christianity waning, fearful men now cling to ideologies – E.D.I., Wokeness, other political…
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Police in Iran arrested a 22-year-old woman for not wearing a hijab, hauled her to jail. Bruises on her face, legs, she died two days later. Witnesses said the police beat her. The police said she died of a heart attack. Protestors took to the streets – the Ayatollah called out soldiers, killed 500 protestors.…
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When Jim Hunt was president of North Carolina Young Democrats in 1968, he said something at a YDC meeting that was deemed newsworthy – and wasn’t popular with all Democrats: “I’m getting tired of going to county, local and even State YDC meetings and looking out at the audience to see far too few black…
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Years ago sitting in a Republican convention I stared at a stranger standing at a microphone – I had no idea who he was but we were on opposite sides and when he finished speaking I had no doubt he’d handed us a problem. Back then Bob Orr was what I called a Mountain Republican.…
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Worshipping idols instead of God is an old sin – after Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, camped at the foot of Mount Sinai, the Israelites built a Golden Calf, worshipped it not God. Even Solomon, after he married pagan wives, built altars to pagan idols. These days ideologies – creeds – have taken…
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In a small Virginia church at the end of the Roaring Twenties my grandfather married my grandmother – a month later the Stock Market crashed. During the Great Depression he struggled for a decade. Hitler marched into Austria and Czechoslovakia, German tanks rolled over Poland, Belgium, France, British soldiers fled Dunkirk. Staring at storm clouds…
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I’ve resisted the temptation to rail every day about Trump’s cruelty, corruption and incompetence – and…
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Jeanette Hyde went from Miss Yadkin County to Madam Ambassador. Hyde, who died Monday at age…
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