Posts by Gary Pearce
War Politics
Bush and Cheney claim that Democrats are playing politics with the war. I can understand. After all, they think the war is theirs to play politics with. That’s what they’ve done from the start. Click Here to discuss and comment on this and other articles in our Forum.
Read MoreImpeach Dick Cheney
Dennis Kucinich is flakier than Kellogg’s. But he’s on to something. He introduced articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney. Republicans are howling, and Democrats are hiding. But wait. Republicans impeached Bill Clinton for lying about sex. Isn’t lying about war just as deserving of investigation? Click Here to discuss and comment on this and other…
Read MoreCome Home, Roy
After AG Roy Cooper’s announcement in the Duke case, I praised his performance – both here and in The News & Observer. So now I can take him to task. Roy, it was a mistake to go to the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington – as Katie Couric’s guest. After the speech, you looked…
Read MoreHow Goes the War?
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States is not losing in Iraq. In that case, I’d hate to see losing. Click Here to discuss and comment on this and other articles in our Forum.
Read MoreGuns and Politics
After the Virginia Tech shootings, both sides of the gun-control issue lined up and took their usual firing positions. But don’t expect anything to happen. Why not? Just look at the Commonwealth of Virginia. And the Democratic Party. Democrats have a majority in the United States Senate today thanks to Jim Webb of Virginia. Webb…
Read MoreWhere’s the Line?
Where’s the line between showing a media-obsessed society too much and too little? Where’s the line between glorifying a killer and glimpsing what lies behind evil? Where’s the line between protecting the rights of clearly disturbed people and protecting the rest of us? Where’s the line between protecting people from a shooter who may be…
Read MoreDick Cheney’s Responsibility
Vice President Cheney said on Face the Nation Sunday that Democrats are “irresponsible” to push for withdrawal from Iraq. Irresponsible? I’ll give you irresponsible: Irresponsible is leading America into one of the greatest foreign policy disasters in history. Irresponsible is pretending that Iraq had something to do with 9/11. Irresponsible is short-changing the military force…
Read MoreMoore Trouble
The storm flags are flying again for State Treasurer and would-be Governor Richard Moore. Now it’s a report by David Ingram in The Charlotte Observer that: “The employees who manage the $70 billion N.C. public pension fund are traveling out of North Carolina on official business more than twice as often as they did just…
Read MoreTrial by Media Fire
The Don Imus and Duke lacrosse cases had three things in common: race, money and media frenzy. Imus had all three factors against him, so he lost. The Duke players had two with them: money and, in the end, media. They won. From the start, the Duke case was justice by media. The DA convicted…
Read MoreJoe Sinsheimer and the Democrats
From the time Joe Sinsheimer first called for ex-Speaker Jim Black to step down, people asked me who I thought was paying Joe. Having known Joe for many years, I said: nobody. He’s much more dangerous than a paid operative. He’s driven by his conscience. And he has three qualities that are rare in politics:…
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