When President Obama stared into the cameras Tuesday night he must have felt more than a tremor of foreboding. Nonetheless, he folded his hands in front of him and marched resolutely into the first minefield and announced we’re pulling out (except for 50,000 men) of a war we didn’t win. There hardly seems any…
Read MoreSenator Richard Burr’s ad shows he knows he could be vulnerable. Voters don’t know him or what he’s done. Which supports Elaine Marshall’s case for getting the $10 million she needs from the DSCC to be competitive. Senate Democrats are playing defense most everywhere this year. It would be nice to make one…
Read MoreA reader called today with an interesting thought spurred by Richard Burr’s ad. She took issue with his suggestion that all jobs come from the private sector. She pointed out that government contracts with Blackwater, Halliburton, KBR and a raft of defense contractors sure created a bunch of jobs. She has a point.…
Read MoreRemember the furor last year when Governor Perdue announced that dozens of long-term, convicted criminals might get out of prison early because of an issue over “good time”? Remember how everybody said what a disaster this would be for her? Remember how critics said she overreacted by threatening to stand in the jailhouse…
Read MoreMy friend Damon Circosta, executive director on the N.C. Center for Voter Education, gets an A for effort but an F for persuasiveness. Circosta, according to Under the Dome, says the flap over Governor Perdue’s campaign not reporting some flights is an argument for “voter-owned” (publicly financed) campaigns. http://projects.newsobserver.com/dome#ixzz0yBS20BU0 The logic goes over…
Read MoreI’m amused by people who argue that the “mosque” shouldn’t be built near Ground Zero because a poll showed a majority of Americans oppose it. Well, not along ago I saw a poll that found, for the first time, that most Americans think gay couples should be allowed to wed. That settles it,…
Read More…could a charlatan like Glenn Beck (with Sarah Palin as backup) claim that holding his Washington rally on the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s is “divine providence” AND simultaneously claim that an Islamic center shouldn’t be built two blocks from Ground Zero because it offends some people. Am I the only person who thinks…
Read MoreOver in Afghanistan, according to the newspaper, 25-year-old Khayyam and 19-year-old Siddiqa fell in love;—now Khayyam already had a wife but that wasn’t a hurdle because in Afghanistan men can have four wives; instead the hurdle was his family turned thumbs down on the marriage, plus Siddiqa was already engaged to a relative of Khayyam’s…
Read MoreIt’s a familiar question. I heard it again not long ago. My Republican friend/foe Jack Hawke and I were tossing partisan grenades at each other during a panel on this year’s elections. When it was time for Q&A, the question was: “Can’t the two parties put aside their differences and solve our problems…
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