Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Folwell’s Foolishness
When State Treasurer Dale Folwell announced in March that he’s running for Governor, he said, “Voters like candidates who attack problems, not people.” That didn’t last long. He must have figured out that, in Trump’s Republican Party, the whole point of politics is to attack people. And – shades of Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and…
A Year of Bread and Circuses
The Donald just announced he’s got a grand idea – if elected he’s going to throw a whooping party like no one’s ever seen before to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. How long will Trump’s party last? A day? A weekend? No, a year. Will his party be in front of the Lincoln Memorial? The Statue…
Biden Magic
Remember a few weeks ago when America was careening toward a debt-ceiling cliff, a fiscal crisis that would plunge us into economic catastrophe, stock-market collapse and 401k apocalypse? Then, suddenly – poof! presto! abracadabra! – it was gone. We avoided the cliff. We dodged disaster. Our pensions and portfolios are safe. The economy rolls on,…
Déjà vu All Over Again
DeSantis announced he’d fire Christopher Wray – who Trump made head of the FBI; Trump War Room shot back tweeting, ‘DeSantis voted to confirm Wray in 2017.’ DeSantis War Room pounced: ‘Wray was confirmed by the Senate’ – in other words DeSantis was in the House so he never voted on Wray’s confirmation. Trump popped…
Fall In
Like President Biden, I fell this weekend. And I’m only 74. He tripped on an ill-placed sandbag. I slipped on a slick boardwalk in Manteo. He fell more gracefully than I did. My feet went out from under me, and I ended up flat on my back. No damage done, except for some soreness and…
Forgotten Stories from our Past: Churchill Didn’t say a Word
Descending a flight of stairs wearing a pair of Italian high heels, Winston Churchill’s sixty-seven-year-old mother fell, broke her ankle, gangrene set in, her leg was amputated above the knee, a vein in her thigh hemorrhaged, she died. Two months later Churchill’s two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Marigold, throat infected, inflamed with tonsilitis, sighed, ‘So tired, so tired’…
Freedom Versus Control
Ron DeSantis may be more dangerous to America than Trump. On Memorial Day, when we honored the men and women who died protecting our freedom and liberty, DeSantis told Fox News that as President, “I will be able to destroy leftism in this country.” “Destroy” leftism? DeSantis’ extreme rhetoric reflects his record in Florida: banning…
Revisiting Evil
Since our Danube cruise, my thoughts keep going back to three Holocaust memorials – and the line between good and evil in people. In Budapest, we saw the “Shoes on the Danube Bank,” (pictured) a memorial to 20,000 Jews who were rounded up and executed beside the river in 1944-45. They were ordered to take…
Selling NC ‘24
North Carolina Democrats have a big selling job to do for 2024, and Anderson Clayton is selling hard. The state party chair was on ABC News’ GMA3 last week (link below) selling the idea that President Biden and other Democrats can win her state next year – and telling how to do it: “I really…