Carter is a Republican. Gary is a Democrat.

They met in 1984, during the epic U.S. Senate battle between Jesse Helms and Jim Hunt. Carter worked for Helms and Gary, for Hunt.

Years later, they became friends. They even worked together on some nonpolitical clients.

They enjoy talking about politics. So they started this blog in 2005.

They’re still talking. And they invite you to join the conversation.

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A Twisted World

By Carter Wrenn July 11, 2024

Democrats all over the media are saying it’s time for Biden to step aside. David Axelrod said Biden ‘can’t beat father time…it’s likely he loses by a landslide.’ James Carville said ‘the jig is up’ – Biden can’t win. The New York Times called on Biden to get out of the race. Times columnist Maureen…

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Switching Horses

By Gary Pearce July 11, 2024

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…

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Trump 2025 vs Climate Change

By Gary Pearce July 10, 2024

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,…

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I’ve Heard Enough

By Gary Pearce July 7, 2024

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.…

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Jim Martin vs Trump

By Gary Pearce July 3, 2024

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…

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Risky Business

By Carter Wrenn July 3, 2024

Born in Moscow, Boris Epshteyn came to America when he was 11 years old, settled in New Jersey, became a lawyer, worked on John McCain’s presidential  campaign against Obama, worked with Trump – Steve Bannon calls him Trump’s ‘Wartime Consigliere’. After Biden won, Trump charged into a grey area trying to do something no one…

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Biden Politics

By Carter Wrenn July 2, 2024

Biden opened the border, plummeted in polls, trailed Trump – about facing got tougher on the border. Next he got hit by backlash coming from angry progressives – holding out an olive branch, straddling the fence, he handed half a million illegal immigrants, who’d married Americans, a way to stay and a pathway to citizenship.…

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Signs

By Carter Wrenn July 1, 2024

Out to save the world from climate change, crossing a green field carrying canisters, a troupe of English protestors spray painted Stonehenge orange. Smiling, laying down canisters, they sat down on the grass in front of a stone monolith painted orange and had their pictures taken. Silent, towering, Stonehenge stood untouched since before King Arthur,…

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Get Real

By Gary Pearce July 1, 2024

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…

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Recessional

By Carter Wrenn November 11, 2024

The tumult and the shouting dies; The Captains and the Kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient…

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Mistakes and Miss-Takes

By Gary Pearce November 10, 2024

Bert Bennett of Winston-Salem, the legendary political godfather to Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt, had a…

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Don’t Give Up

By Gary Pearce November 6, 2024

This is bad. Bad for America and for the world. Bad for women, for immigrants, for…

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