Posts by Carter Wrenn
The Other Big Lawsuit
A legislator once told me how he traded political favors for campaign contributions: He said, It’s legal but you have to walk a line. He explained when someone asked him to vote for a bill he couldn’t say, ‘Sure, I will, if you’ll contribute to my campaign in return.’ That was a ‘quid pro quo.’…
Read MoreLawsuits Galore…
Jack Smith’s lawsuit against Trump goes like this: 1) States counted votes, certified the winner; 2) Picked Presidential Electors; 3) Biden won the Electoral College; 4) On January 6 Trump tried to throw out Biden’s Electors so he could stay in power – that broke the law. Trump’s defense goes this way: 1) Biden didn’t…
Read MoreEchoing Neville Chamberlain
Back during the Cold War, veterans who’d fought in World War II watched Vietnam, Cuba, countries in Africa, Asia, Central America fall to the Soviet Union; determined to stop Russia, conservatives, like Ronald Reagan, said three words: ‘Peace through strength’ – liberals answered: ‘Détente.’ It looks like we’re heading into a new Cold War with…
Read MoreHot Political News
Trump tweeted out a picture of Christie and Obama, said Christie helped sink Romney; Christie tweeted out a eighteen year old photo of Trump and Hillary, shot back he didn’t invite Hillary to his wedding. A GOP Congressman ripped the Biden Administration for hiding UFOs. Biden’s dog bit his Secret Service agents ten times, one…
Read MoreOur Better Angels
“If we’re ever going to find our better angels again, it has to start with us setting the example of how to disagree better.” – Utah Governor Spencer Cox Republicans and Democrats now live in separate worlds; each watches their own cable news network; they quarrel, bicker, every day in Congress; political wars are meaner…
Read MoreA Crossroads…
Americans are marching in two tribes: One nods when they hear Trump’s voice – the other scowls. Prosecutor Jack Smith’s looming lawsuit against Trump comes down to one question: Who stole the 2020 election? Did Biden? Or Trump, when he tried to remove Biden’s Presidential Electors? Democrats howl Trump broke the law. Republicans roar Biden’s…
Read MoreThe Governor’s Race Just Got Heated
Mark Walker slammed Mark Robinson for denying the ‘Holocaust’ ever happened. In 2018, before Robinson became a politician, he said on Facebook: “This foolishness about Hitler disarming MILLIONS of Jews and then marching them to concentration camps is a bunch of hogwash.” Walker read Robinson’s post, punched. Over a year ago when Robinson called gays…
Read MoreCrossing the Line
The first time Trump said, ‘The election was stolen,’ I thought it was his vanity speaking – afraid he’d be seen as a ‘loser’ he spun a tale. But Trump said it so often, over and over, and so many people – like Rudy Giuliani – told him he was right, he came to believe…
Read MoreChanging Sexes
I read the story on the front page of the newspaper: A four-year-old girl told her parents she wanted to be a boy. Her parents said no. Angry, the child threw fits, hyperventilating. Her mother searched for the words ‘gender identity’ on the internet, talked with therapists, doctors. A year later her family, starting down…
Read MoreRiveting
“Deranged Jack Smith,” Trump tweeted, “the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s DOJ, sent a letter (again, it was Sunday night!) stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment.” It…
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