Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
The End of the Bush Era
Former CIA Director George Tenet (in his new book) says the debate within the Bush Administration before the invasion of Iraq ‘was not about imminence, it was about acting before Saddam did.’ In other words, President Bush invaded Iraq not because Saddam was on the verge of giving al-Qaeda weapons of mass destruction but because…
A Simple Bill
First, State Treasurer Richard Moore hired Quellos money management to help him invest state pension funds, then he paid them hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees, then he solicited their executives for contributions to his campaigns. Now the Charlotte Observer reports Quellos has some problems of its own. It has been sued for violating…
Rahmbo Secrecy
I’m ashamed of my fellow Democrats. They shut the press out of last weekend’s Jefferson-Jackson Day speech by Congressman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois. What could Rahmbo have said that was so hush-hush? A secret plan to end the war in Iraq? A secret plan to take over the White House and increase Democratic congressional majorities…
A Democratic Senator in ‘08?
Whenever a Democrat asks me about beating Liddy Dole next year, I ask this trivia question: Who was the last Democrat from North Carolina to win a U.S. Senate seat in a presidential election year? The answer: Sam Ervin. 1968. Almost 40 years ago. And Ervin won not as the Watergate folk hero – that…
History Repeating Itself
The Basiji Force is a militia group in Iran. It is not unlike the ‘Brownshirts’ in Germany in the 1930’s and just as the ‘Brownshirts’ had Hitler’s approval the Basiji Force has the blessing of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ah’madinejad. Not long ago six members of ‘the Force’ were convicted of five murders in an Iranian…
Missing David Halberstam
After David Halberstam died this week, The News & Observer reported on a chance meeting that U.S. Attorney George Holding had with Halberstam a month ago. According to the N&O account by Matthew Eisley: It was a chance encounter last month at a hotel bar in Washington. (Holding) had happened to sit next to a…
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.
Impeach 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…
More on Moore
Democratic State Representative Linda Coleman has sponsored legislation to take control of the State Pension Fund away from Treasurer Richard Moore and give it to a fourteen member Board of Trustees. Democratic Representative Bill Faison of Hillsborough and two Republicans – including Rep. Nelson Dollar of Cary – have joined Coleman has co-sponsors of the…