Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
I’m just back from a week-long cruise to the western Caribbean – Grand Cayman, Honduras and Mexico. Did I miss anything? I’ll be catching up and weighing in. Plenty of material from last week! Thanks to Luther Snyder, Nation Hahn and the anonymous bloggers for their great contributions last week. They set a…
With Governor Perdue’s announcement that she will not seek reelection the North Carolina political landscape has shuffled quickly. As of today, candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor (with Walter Dalton’s entry into the Governor’s race) have 107 days to raise money, reach voters, and win a statewide primary. This compressed schedule is unprecedented in North…
Explaining that his chances of winning reelection look dim, this morning Democratic Congressman Brad Miller announced he will not run. About an hour later Governor Beverly Perdue explained that, because the one thing she cares most about is schoolchildren (who, she added, are victims of Republican legislators cutting spending), she’s not running either. …
Gary is taking a break this week from consulting, blogging and politics. He invited several TAPsters to contribute blogs during his hiatus. Here’s one of them: Art Pope likely has never thought of himself as allied with the oft-bashed-as-liberal news media, but the mainstream media has succeeded in giving undeserved credibility to Pope’s squadron of…
Gary is taking a break this week from consulting, blogging and politics. He invited several TAPsters to contribute blogs during his hiatus. Here’s one of them: Mitt Romney’s reluctance to turnover his tax returns proves yet again how important it is to FALL FORWARD FAST in politics. What started out as a refusal by Romney…
Someone ought to say a kind word about Ron Paul – after all, he may be the last of an almost extinct species in American public life: An honest politician. A politician who doesn’t spin at all. Ask Newt about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and he’ll tell you they paid him for…
Gary is taking a break this week from consulting, blogging and politics. He invited several TAPsters to contribute blogs during his hiatus. Here’s one of them: One of the most distasteful and useless public policy efforts in North Carolina is underway, and hardly anyone knows it. The NC Center for Public Policy Research…
Does it seem the Republican debates have become a lot like a ‘reality show?’ Herman Cain gets voted off the island. The bachelorette says no to Rick Perry. Michelle Bachman gets voted off Dancing with the Stars? And – in the season finale – we’ll know America’s New Idol. Up…
Ole’ Mitt Romney’s hit a rough patch – a week ago he was the conqueror of Iowa and New Hampshire and rolling to victory in South Carolina then his victory in Iowa vanished in front of his eyes and Newt shot past him in South Carolina. The Republican Establishment’s a peculiar beast: Armed with…
The political sniping began even as chaos still reigned at the White House Correspondents Dinner. My…
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…