Posts by Carter Wrenn
Obama-care and Perdue-care
Seven hundred fire breathing Democrats gathered in Fayetteville for their convention and just about came to blows over reading the riot act to three Democratic Congressmen who had the sheer audacity to vote against Obama-care. What saved the poor Congressmen from humiliation (or perhaps mutilation) was one of their more adroit supporters standing up…
Read MoreEthics North Carolina Style
As House Democratic Leader Joe Hackney and House Republican Leader ‘Skip’ Stam watched beaming, Governor Perdue signed the states latest ‘Ethics Law.’ Hackney then said it was wonderful that Democrats were cleaning up the mess in state government, and Stam said it was a shame the Democrats had created the mess in the first…
Read MoreImmigrants and Gays
Federal judges have turned out to be President Obama’s worst nightmare; first a Clinton judge in Phoenix threw out Arizona’s immigration law and landed Obama in the middle of a political war over the next to last issue he wanted to fight over; then a judge in California landed him in an even worse fight…
Read MoreNC-SBI
Over in Davie County a dentist tells the District Attorney his wife stabbed him with a spear, then he stabbed her back with his pocket knife, and she died; the DA calls in the SBI’s Chief ‘Blood Splatter’ expert to figure out exactly what did happen; two investigators stare at the bloodstains on the husband’s…
Read MoreUgly Facts
Not long after we took up the burden (or had it forced on us) of fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq we decided ‘Democracy Building’ (wherever our army went) sounded like a noble idea. And no doubt it was noble but nearly nine years later we’ve had an education and learned not everyone agrees.…
Read MoreA Cesspool of Corruption?
Back when Beverly Perdue was running for Governor, just before the election I needed a piece of election law clarified before I ran two ads – so I called the State Board of Elections. I wasn’t too hopeful. I thought, Here I am asking a bunch of Democrats about running ads attacking a Democrat –…
Read MoreA Mosque in Manhattan
When an email floated in out of the blue saying a fellow named Oz Sultan wanted to build a Mosque a block from where the Twin Towers used to be I thought it had to be a joke – but darned if it wasn’t true. The next thing I knew New York Mayor Michael…
Read MoreA Wild Whirlwind?
The other morning there was an article in the paper listing perverse examples of how the President has spent ‘Stimulus Funds’ – like paying $300,000 to study the power of yoga to relieve hot flashes. Now, at first blush this sounds like typical government foolishness (or some Congressman buying votes from yoga enthusiasts) but…
Read MorePosters of Obama
Barack Obama repairs a road with ‘Stimulus Funds’ – and promptly puts up a sign praising his policy. Obama aides send money to Orlando to widen a parkway – and the road gets renamed for Obama. Obama gives stimulus cash to unions, ‘greenies’ and Democratic political operatives including a pollster who’s head of…
Read MorePerdue-care
Here’s another story about how the true-blue liberal Democrats up in Washington and the leading Obama supporters in North Carolina – like Governor Perdue – have gotten cross-wired. By now no one in the United States has any doubt President Obama wants more and better health care. Period. His plan may backfire. But if…
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