Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
At 16 he was arrested using marijuana. As a teenager he got kicked out of two boarding schools. When he was 29 he got arrested for heroin possession. Driving through upstate New York he saw a dead bear by the side of the road, stopped, loaded the bear in his van, drove on to New…
I’m at the age (76) where conversations with old friends turn into “organ recitals.” Who has what illness or ailment? Who did your knee/hip/heart/shoulder/prostate surgery? How are Joe, Mary, et al getting along with their (fill in the blank)? No matter how sharp you are or what good shape you’re in, you start losing it…
Instead of going to college Joe Kent joined the army at 18; a Ranger, Green Beret, did 11 combat tours. Stationed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia he met Shannon Smith, also a soldier – they married, had two children. Five years later on a street in Syria an Isis terrorist walked toward four soldiers, ignited a…
Governor Josh Stein has changed the climate in Raleigh. And brighter days may be ahead for North Carolina – especially for public schools and teachers. At Stein’s encouragement, House Democrats voted last night – by 27-20 – to approve House Republicans’ proposed budget. The Governor believes the final budget that comes out of a House-Senate…
The media/punditry obsession with President Biden’s age and health in the White House obscures a more important question: Could Kamala Harris have won anyway? Yes, says Stan Greenberg, a veteran Democratic pollster and analyst who worked for Bill Clinton. In fact, he argues in “Kamala Could Have Won” in The American Prospect, she was winning…
This, Trump posted, is what Burj Khalifa looks like. He showed a photo of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai lit up at night by red, white, and blue lights, like a flag. Knowing the queasiness Trump felt when sheiks flew in grander jets than presidents, Qatar gave him a gift – a new $400…
Trump took an entourage of super-rich Americans to visit super-rich Arabs to do deals that will make them all richer. Back in Washington, congressional Republicans drew up a budget that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will cause more than four million people to lose health insurance and 8.6 million people to lose Medicaid coverage.…
Chariots of Fire won the Best Picture Oscar…Joe Montana and the 49ers won the Super Bowl …Dallas was the top TV show…and, back in 1982, I ran head-on into my first off-year election. By then I’d worked in 3 campaigns – each ended well. In 1982, with Reagan in the White House, we set out…
Trump had quite a day yesterday. Qatar offered a posh new jet to replace Air Force 1 – Trump said it’d be ‘stupid’ to say no. Next Trump said we’d stopped a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. When he’d imposed tariffs, Trump whacked China. Got whacked back. Blinked. Yesterday announced he’d cut a big…
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…