Democrats are enjoying seeing Trump in court – while Trump calls the lawsuits against him a ‘witch hunt.’ So is Biden on a witch hunt – or did Trump break the law? Here’s a question no one asks: What if both are true? What if Biden got Jack Smith to indict Trump? And what if…
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Abrasive but entertaining politicians rant on Facebook, Twitter – and legions of people follow them. After Jeff Jackson landed in Congress he made a video. Oddly, he didn’t rant, he talked calmly – 3 million people watched. He made more videos without a rant – and over a million people watched each video. How’d he…
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The casinos-for-Medicaid deal collapsed in the state legislature partly because it was an epic political miscalculation. It was also profoundly cynical and morally wrong. The Republican leaders, Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger and Speaker Tim Moore, did the impossible: They united Trump Republicans and almost all Democrats against the deal. Democrats were outraged by…
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Mocking, hurling insults, on social media he called people, ‘Morons… Stupid… Dummies…Fascist Monsters…Hacks and Thugs.’ And every time he erupted people laughed, or cheered, or hurled insults back. Here’s a question: When your children talked that way as teenagers did you tell them to stop? So who’s calling people ‘thugs?’ Here’s a clue: He’s leading…
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Jaw set Trump said, ‘Democrats have been saying for 20 years elections were stolen but not one got indicted.’ Early on election night back in 2000 TV networks announced Al Gore won Florida – later that night, about facing, the same networks said George Bush won Florida by a handful of votes. Angry politicians roared,…
Read MoreI got an email titled ‘Old Sayings Still True Today:’ If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates – Jay Leno The problem with political jokes is they get elected We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office – Aesop When I was a boy I…
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Anderson Clayton reminds me of Jim Hunt: the same energy, the same enthusiasm and the same determination to make North Carolina better – through the Democratic Party. A couple of us old Hunt hands saw that this week when the 86-year-old four-term governor and the 25-year-old first-term party chair met for the first time, at…
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Governor Roy Cooper measures his words carefully, so his tweet Saturday afternoon was striking: “GOP demand for passage of their backroom casino deal in exchange for a state budget and Medicaid expansion is the most brutally dishonest legislative scheme I’ve seen in my 3+ decades. People are right to be suspicious. Something has a grip…
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Former Senator Lauch Faircloth, who died last week at age 95, was a Democrat before he got mad at Terry Sanford. Faircloth got his revenge and got elected to the U.S. Senate. Then he got beat by John Edwards. I was there for the whole Shakespearean saga of vengeance, ambition and – sometimes – comedy.…
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Watergate sunk Nixon. Jimmy Carter was elected. Two years later Jesse Helms ran for reelection. In…
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We Americans are angry this Christmas. 77 million voters were so angry they elected Trump. 75…
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‘You tell a lot of good stories about Reagan, like his saying a prayer for the…
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