Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race will be nasty and brutal. It also will be our chance to reject the nasty, brutal politics that Trump has inflicted on America for 10 years. A spokesman for the state Republican Party sounded like Trump: “We just look forward to welcoming Roy Cooper to the most miserable campaign he’s…
White haired, past seventy, she’d had a hard life. Growing up in a broken home she married at 19, divorced, became an alcoholic – AA rescued her. Hair greying, calling herself a ‘MAGA-Granny’ she cheered Trump – got breast cancer. Biden beat Trump. She had surgery. Before starting chemotherapy flew to Trump’s Stop the Steal…
Business and political leaders cheered when CNBC named North Carolina “America’s Top State for Business in 2025.” But look deeper, and there’s less to cheer. The network looked at 10 factors in ranking states. One was “Quality of Life.” Where does North Carolina rank among the states on that? We’re 29th. CNBC says “Quality of…
I clicked on Politico news’ website – the first 5 stories were about the Jeffrey Epstein flap; I went to Axios news’ website – Epstein was all over the place again. When the Epstein controversy showed up I thought, That’s no big deal. No one cares. He died years ago… but suddenly there’re Epstein stories…
Roy Cooper has seized the winning issue for 2026. He isn’t officially running, but last week he sent a fundraising email that began: “There is no upside to taking health care away from millions of Americans. “Yet Washington Republicans passed a new budget bill that will do just that, even though Donald Trump promised Medicaid…
The same day Hitler rolled tanks into Poland, starting World War II, Franklin Roosevelt chose a rare man – George Marshall – to lead the army. Fast forward, take a look at who’s leading our army today: Fox News host Pete Hegseth. Trump also made Fox News guest host Tulsi Gabbard leader of National Intelligence,…
Democrats naturally are enjoying watching Trump, MAGA and congressional Republicans tear each other apart over the Epstein files. It’s ugly. But what’s truly ugly is the Big Ugly Bill that Trump rammed through Congress and nearly every Republican rubber-stamped. It is the most disastrous, most dangerous and most immoral legislation passed by Congress in more…
I read Gary’s column about Roy Cooper – I’ve only met Roy a couple of times but, even though we disagreed on issues, he was always polite, courteous. And that’s rare in politics these days. Trump unending Senator Thom Tillis came as a shock – most folks figured Tillis would work out a deal with…
Almost every day, somebody asks me, “Will Roy Cooper run for Senate?” Yes. I have no inside information. But the former governor is putting together his campaign team. He’s speaking out on social media. And he’s wise to wait. Waiting keeps the focus on who Trump picks to run for Senator Thom Tillis’ seat. Trump,…
A new nationwide poll shows that, if they could run against each other in 2028, Barack…
Senator Phil Berger was out of touch with voters in his district – and suffered the…
A reassuring lesson from our trip to Germany and Czechia is that dictators, despots and tyrants…