Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
In PR it’s called “getting ahead of the story.” Roy Cooper has tried it twice on the SBI story. Not happening. The N&O owns this story. Another Pulitzer is in sight. And today the N&O showed Cooper again that it, not he, is driving this train. Yesterday Cooper tried to get ahead by announcing…
Read MoreFor a long time, I thought the main driver in this election was the rotten economy. But the 2010 election instead may be all about the colossus who stands astride American politics today – for better and for worse: Barack Obama. That thought occurred to me when I read this from Tom Jensen…
Read MoreHere’re two peculiar examples of modern economic theory as practiced by the Obama Administration. Both have to do with the President spending ‘Stimulus Funds.’ Alcoa Corporation has a net worth of $12 billion. The Obama Administration gave it $13 million in stimulus funds to pay for renovations at its Cheoah dam on the Little…
Read MoreThe other night at dinner a Democrat (who’s also a lawyer) started talking about growing up in a small town then stopped in mid-sentence and said, You know, that world no longer exists; then, a few mornings later in the News and Observer columnist Froma Harrop wrote about the TV program Mad Men’s aura of…
Read MoreDemocrats remind me of my friends on the Outer Banks last week: battening down, nervously watching the approaching storm and hoping it turns out to be a Category 1 that spares the house â and the Senate. There are dire warnings of losing the state Senate and possibly even the House â or a…
Read MoreIn a recent blog, Carter posed some lofty questions to me about religion, like: Are all religions equal? Is Islam a violent religion? And so forth. I’ve pondered posting some lofty thoughts that might help our readers in their own struggles with these vital issues of theology and faith. In the end, I’ve…
Read MoreThis headline on a Wilmington Star-News editorial represents the apex of either naïveté or optimism about politics: âMisleading ads won’t work if voters are savvy.â
Read MoreIt’s Tom Fetzer’s job to run around the state sounding alarms. But it’s not the media’s responsibility to salivate every time he rings the bell. There is no greater example than the Perdue flight flap. In the end, that looks to be nothing more than a few small licks of flame. Fetzer did…
Read MoreWhen President Obama stared into the cameras Tuesday night he must have felt more than a tremor of foreboding. Nonetheless, he folded his hands in front of him and marched resolutely into the first minefield and announced we’re pulling out (except for 50,000 men) of a war we didn’t win. There hardly seems any…
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