Carter is a Republican. Gary is a Democrat.

They met in 1984, during the epic U.S. Senate battle between Jesse Helms and Jim Hunt. Carter worked for Helms and Gary, for Hunt.

Years later, they became friends. They even worked together on some nonpolitical clients.

They enjoy talking about politics. So they started this blog in 2005.

They’re still talking. And they invite you to join the conversation.

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Hallowed Principle

By Gary Pearce August 23, 2010

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…

Hallowed Ground

By Carter Wrenn August 16, 2010

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…

Just Plain Funny…

By Carter Wrenn August 16, 2010

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.

Obama-care and Perdue-care

By Carter Wrenn August 16, 2010

Seven hundred fire breathing Democrats gathered in Fayetteville for their convention and just about came to blows over reading the riot act to three Democratic Congressmen who had the sheer audacity to vote against Obama-care.   What saved the poor Congressmen from humiliation (or perhaps mutilation) was one of their more adroit supporters standing up…

Gary’s Taking a Break

By Gary Pearce August 16, 2010

This website is going to tilt right this week. I’m going to the beach.   On the agenda: golf, reading, napping, seafood and spirits, swimming and jogging (to make up for the seafood and spirits).   Not on the agenda: blogging.   I’ll be back August 23.   Don’t let Carter warp your mind while…

Ethics North Carolina Style

By Carter Wrenn August 13, 2010

As House Democratic Leader Joe Hackney and House Republican Leader ‘Skip’ Stam watched beaming, Governor Perdue signed the states latest ‘Ethics Law.’   Hackney then said it was wonderful that Democrats were cleaning up the mess in state government, and Stam said it was a shame the Democrats had created the mess in the first…

The Will of the People

By Gary Pearce August 13, 2010

Some people must have superpowers.   How else can they divine “the will of the people” all by themselves?   Frequently, people comment here that Obama and the Democrats are defying “the will of the people” or “the majority.”   I hate to break it to you, but under our beloved Constitution the only way…

Immigrants and Gays

By Carter Wrenn August 13, 2010

Federal judges have turned out to be President Obama’s worst nightmare; first a Clinton judge in Phoenix threw out Arizona’s immigration law and landed Obama in the middle of a political war over the next to last issue he wanted to fight over; then a judge in California landed him in an even worse fight…

NC-SBI

By Carter Wrenn August 12, 2010

Over in Davie County a dentist tells the District Attorney his wife stabbed him with a spear, then he stabbed her back with his pocket knife, and she died; the DA calls in the SBI’s Chief ‘Blood Splatter’ expert to figure out exactly what did happen; two investigators stare at the bloodstains on the husband’s…

Political Shots Fired

By Gary Pearce April 28, 2026

The political sniping began even as chaos still reigned at the White House Correspondents Dinner. My…

Obama 48-Trump 39

By Gary Pearce April 26, 2026

A new nationwide poll shows that, if they could run against each other in 2028, Barack…

“Conservative Successes”?

By Gary Pearce April 23, 2026

Senator Phil Berger was out of touch with voters in his district – and suffered the…