Issues
How Government Really Works: A Train Wreck III
After Lanier Cansler figured out how to end run the Medicaid appeals process (so he could cut patients’ home care pretty much however he wanted) he was ready to take the next step. He’d already given CCME Corporation (his former client from his lobbying days) a $25 million no bid contract, so all he…
Read MoreThe Forgotten Issue
Back when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, we figured fightin’ was going to be the key to winning the war, so we told General McArthur to charge and keep charging and not to worry about the amount of havoc he wrecked until the Japanese were whipped. In the same vein in 1944 and ’45…
Read MoreHow Government Really Works: A Train Wreck II
After Secretary Lanier Cansler gave a 25$ million no bid contract (to his former client CCME Corporation) and promised legislators that meant he’d be able to cut in-home care to Medicaid patients $50 million (because, he said, 45% of the patients were cheats) he ran into a problem. When he ran all the patients’ records through…
Read MoreHarbinger?
If the Republican takeover of the Wake County school board last year was a sign of what’s to come in this year’s elections, will this week’s train wreck on the board be a sign of what’s to come next year – in Raleigh and Washington? Campaigning is much easier than governing, as President Obama…
Read MoreBreaking Up Is Hard to Do
“Prom Queen!” “Calm down, now, John.” “I enjoyed our friendship – while it lasted.” It sounds like two middle-schoolers having a bad breakup. But no. It was the Wake County school board majority falling out of love. And they did it with such grace and style. So mature and professional. Such…
Read MoreHow Government Really Works: A Train Wreck
A few years ago Secretary Lanier Cansler’s Department decided to ‘reform’ care for the mentally ill and when they finished the state’s mental hospitals were in a shambles and schizophrenics were being handcuffed to beds in Emergency Rooms in local hospitals because the state had nowhere to care for them. Next Cansler’s Department decided…
Read MoreThe Deficit Solution
There is a simple and easy solution to our nation’s budget deficit. It’s bound to work, because it relies on the tremendous energy and enthusiasm that the Tea Party movement has brought to politics. Here it is: All members of the Tea Party must give up any claim to government benefits, beginning with Medicare…
Read MoreHow Government Works
A couple of months ago an 80 year old man on Medicaid received a letter from Secretary of Health and Human Services Lanier Cansler’s department telling him his in-home medical care had been cut. He appealed the ruling, proved he needed the care, and won. But he still didn’t get it. What happened? …
Read MoreThe Vatican and Victory Churches
The other morning at breakfast my friend Richard the intellectual laid down his newspaper and said, ‘I thought you told me you and Jack Betts were friends?’ I looked up. ‘We are.’ ‘Have you read his article in the newspaper this morning?’ I looked at the headline. ‘Well, Jack supports the Ground Zero…
Read MoreGary Responds to Carter’s Response
Carter, if you and I are going to start being all reasonable with each other, we’re going to lose our readers! Your response poses a question I can’t begin to answer: How will Muslims around the world interpret it if we let the Islamic community center go up? (Though I would be happy…
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