Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Well, Gary, you’re back and I’m glad we’ve got a little controversy on our hands (about the Mosque in Manhattan) and I suspect before we finish debating we may be disagreeing on more than just politics. Let me ask – gingerly – three questions. Are all religions are equal? Should all religions be treated…
The rumor among Republicans is that George Holding will run against Roy Cooper for AG in 2012. That assumes, of course, that Holding doesn’t stay on as U.S. Attorney forever. It also assumes he finally handles his high-profile cases: Mike Easley and John Edwards. Maybe Holding will punt Easley to the state,…
Governor Perdue can’t catch a break. Today should have been a big news day for her: North Carolina winning one of the 10 “Race to the Top” selections. That’s a big step forward in school reform. And, by the way, one of the most significant and least recognized achievements of the Obama administration.…
One thing is clear from Tuesday’s primaries: the lunatics are running the Republican asylum. Rick Scott, a key figure in the biggest health-care fraud scandal ever, won the Republican nomination for governor of Florida. Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski trails a Sarah Palin-endorsed Tea Partier. And John McCain, who gave America Sarah Palin, survived in…
The last couple of weeks, I’ve talked with Democrats and Republicans who are deeply involved in this year’s elections. And I found a ray of hope for Democrats: 2010 may not be 1994 revisited. The reason: 1994 itself. What happened that year is hard-wired into Democratic DNA – in North Carolina and…
For twenty years the state ‘crime lab,’ the News and Observer reports, has been withholding evidence and misleading juries at trials and sending innocent people to prison – but no one has been fired, which makes the fate of Eszter Vajda (another state employee who did lose her job last week after the firestorm over…
Well, Carter, I get your point that the World Trade Center is “hallowed ground.” But why does that mean a mosque, or an Islamic cultural center, shouldn’t be two blocks away? In an area, apparently, that is now home to bars, restaurants and a strip club? Apparently, the reasoning is that anything Islamic…
Now, Gary, about that mosque in Manhattan you disagree with me about: It is fine and noble to talk about “freedom” and “tolerance” and “openness” but Charles Krauthamner asked a pretty fair question of his own about this mosque in the newspaper last week: ‘What makes a place sacred?’ He gave three examples of…
Sometimes something will just float in out of the Internet that’s just plain funny. This one came with the subject: A-Bomb or Welfare. Click Here to read it.
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