Posts by Gary Pearce
The Thom Tillis Twist
Senator Thom Tillis twisted himself into contortions with this tweet last week: “Huge news for Wilmington, the Department of Transportation will be awarding $242 million to replace the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge! I was proud to advocate for the project to @SecretaryPete on behalf of North Carolina and co-author and help get the bipartisan infrastructure…
Read More“Say a prayer for our country”
The night Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, April 4, 1968, Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy spoke to an audience in a Black neighborhood in Indianapolis, Indiana. This is part of what he said: “In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask…
Read MoreMedia Mania
The political media’s feeding frenzy over President Biden is an extraordinary development in this campaign. Their arrogance will be studied and scrutinized in political, journalistic and academic circles for years. Washington reporters and commentators seem genuinely angry – even personally insulted – that Biden hasn’t acceded to their judgment, or demand, that he exit the…
Read MoreSwitching Horses
Since 1968, political parties that changed horses in midstream have ended up drowning. That year, antiwar Democrats forced President Lyndon B. Johnson out of the race. Robert Kennedy ran and was killed. Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Gene McCarthy fought all the way to the convention in Chicago. There, police battered and bloodied protesters in…
Read MoreTrump 2025 vs Climate Change
As you swelter through the heat, see 120-degree-plus temperatures in the Southwest and follow the first-ever June Category 5 hurricane (photo), look at what Trump’s Project 2025 says he would do and why: “Break Up NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) …which houses the National Weather Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and other components…. “Together,…
Read MoreI’ve Heard Enough
I’ve heard enough from a media lynch mob that obsesses over President Biden’s senior moments and overlooks Trump’s lifetime of lies and crimes. I’ve heard enough from Democrats who would give in to the mob, give up on the President and give Trump and MAGA Republicans a huge psychological victory four months before the election.…
Read MoreJim Martin vs Trump
North Carolina’s only two-term Republican governor wrote this week that, if Donald Trump wins, America “will be willfully ripped apart.” Jim Martin, who was governor from 1985-1993, wrote in a McClatchy newspapers column that Trump is a “clear and present danger” to the nation. Martin panned President Biden’s debate performance and said: “If I thought…
Read MoreGet Real
To Democrats who say President Biden should “step down,” I ask: What happens next? Will a magical mystery messiah emerge, unite the party in a month and march to victory 18 weeks from tomorrow? Or will there be division, a bitter battle and a contentious convention like 1968, which led to Nixon, and 1980, which…
Read MoreJoe Got Back Up
“When you get knocked down, you get back up” – President Biden in Raleigh Friday. After the debate, President Biden stopped by a Waffle House in Atlanta (photo), flew to Raleigh, gave a barn-burner of a speech Friday and got back in the fight. N.C. Democrats rallied around him, and he rallied Democrats across the…
Read MoreThe Debate
Did President Biden have a bad night? Hell yes. Did Trump convince anybody who wasn’t already for him that he should be President again? Hell no. He reminded us that he’s a serial liar, a convicted rapist and a crook from Queens who’s out on bail. He reminded us why we can’t let him and…
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