Posts by Carter Wrenn
Paroling Murderers
Over in Beijing Governor Perdue’s taking a break from her stressful junket to China to teleconference with reporters back home and say it’s just awful, terrible and cruel and her feathers are all ruffled because twenty murderers are about to be released due to a strange law passed 25 years ago. Now, stop a…
Read MoreT-Shirts
If you’ve bought the line there’s a budget crisis in state government – here’s proof you may have been sold a bill of goods. The State Department of Agriculture ordered 9,000 camel-colored t-shirts to give away at the state fair – for $18,000. You might ask – why did the state need to…
Read MoreWorse than a Mistake
A few days ago American Spectator published a story about fireworks erupting in a caucus of Republican Congressmen when conservatives asked Representative Pete Sessions, head of the National Republican Campaign Committee, why on earth he was pouring half a million in cash into liberal Republican ACORN supported (in the last three elections) candidate Deidre Scozzafava’s…
Read MoreJust When Bev Perdue Thought It…
… couldn’t get any worse, it did. Her popularity dropped again. According to a poll last week an astonishing 63% of North Carolinians disapprove of the job Perdue is doing as Governor. She’s lost the support of Moderates, Conservatives, Independents, Republicans and half the Democrats who voted for her last November. All she has…
Read MoreWhat’s Wrong with the Conservative Movement?
The answer in a nutshell is Republicans in Washington. The other morning ole Newt Gingrich, who talks the talk and has gotten himself anointed as ‘conservative thinker’ numero uno turned his attention from Washington to Lake Placid, New York and endorsed a liberal who’d make Nancy Pelosi proud. Why would a deep-thinking Republican…
Read MoreHow Government Works: No Bid Contracts
Last January Governor Perdue decided to climb out on a limb and appointed a health care lobbyist, Lanier Cansler, head of state health care programs. Of course, Secretary Cansler came into office with a welter of conflicts of interest. His old clients – like the Nursing Home Association – do business with his department.…
Read MoreToo Good to be True?
We Republicans are dreaming the Grand Political Gift is about to fall into our laps – at last an election is at hand where the national political tides are flowing deep and strong in our favor. The odd thing about it is it took electing Democrats to about every office in Washington – to…
Read MoreHere’s How Government Works
Money’s tight the Democrats in Raleigh say, so the state’s flailing away to cut health care costs – it’s slashing home care, nursing home care and hospitals. But one group is safe. North Carolina Medicaid spends $1 billion a year on prescription drugs. But North Carolina is one of six states without a Medicaid ‘Preferred…
Read MoreHow Government Works – 1,300 Oxycodone Pills
Here’s a factoid: Because of the so-called budget ‘crisis’ Governor Perdue’s cutting health care spending on home care for the elderly, people in Nursing Homes and children on Medicaid – at the same time, up in Washington the Government Accountability Office reports eliminating prescription drug fraud would save $63 million “in North Carolina and…
Read MoreNorwegians for Obama
It’s hard to fault President Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize – after all, he was the first to admit he was as surprised as anyone and, beyond that, he’s giving the money to charity. In the end what else could he do but smile and say, Thank you, politely. There’s also no…
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