Posts by Carter Wrenn
Let The Chips Fall Where They May
Mrs. Easley’s lost her scholastic robes and left the stage at NCSU to a communal sigh of relief;—but there’s an important question left unanswered: Who pulled the strings to get her the job? After all, when someone robs a bank, gets caught and gives back part of the money they don’t get a medal…
Read MoreBerger’s Blooper – Chapter II
Some people never seem to learn and Democratic Senator Doug Berger is looking like a case in point. State Senator Berger, who back in his student days at Chapel Hill signed up for something called the ‘Democratic Socialists of America,’ is now head of the Senate Sub-Committee on Health Care. The other day, after…
Read MoreA Crazy Kind of Logic
Over in the legislature, the Democrats took out an axe and cut just about every program in sight from education to health care – and each Democratic legislator voted for it. Then once the Democrats had made half the state mad they turned around and supported a billion dollar tax increase – and made…
Read MoreA Fatherless Boy
Before Father’s Day Barack Obama (whose own father left home when Obama was two years old) speaking to a group of fatherless boys, said, “Just because your father wasn’t there for you, that’s no excuse for you to be absent also…you have an obligation to break the cycle and learn from those mistakes…” No one…
Read MoreGary The Profit
It’s hard to imagine a better week – at least in North Carolina – for Republicans. The grand jury’s investigating Governor Easley about the Southport Marina. And Professor Mrs. Easley’s job at NCSU. And Easley’s real estate deal at the beach. And Easley’s free travel. And free vacations. Easley Contributors are testifying, Chancellors are testifying,…
Read MoreThe Sparks Fly Upwards
Well, the next time a governor asks the Chancellor at North Carolina State University to hire his wife for $875,000 the Chancellor will either whip out a gun and start shooting or hightail it for the hills. Nobody with any sense really believed the professors at State College thought up hiring Governor Easley’s wife…
Read MoreSenator Berger
Senator Doug Berger’s Blooper
Senator Doug Berger’s Blooper
For the past month, State Senator Doug Berger has been telling just about anyone who’ll listen that 45% of the patients who get home care services through Medicaid are ineligible. He’s gotten so worked up over the whole thing he wrote one lady, who disagreed with him, and told her the ‘ineligible’ patients’ children…
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