Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Now, I may not have all the numbers exactly right on this one. It’s received some coverage, but not enough. So bear with me. Apparently, the Obama administration cut a secret deal with Big Pharma under which the drug companies agreed to give up no more than $80 billion in prescription-drug savings for health-care…
Read MoreMy grandmother used to say one bad act leads to another. Here’s an example: Up on Wall Street the Masters of the Universe got so wrapped up in their own greed, like Midas, they ruined themselves. Then the dominos started falling: Congress stepped in to save them by giving them eight hundred billion dollars of…
Read MoreRaleigh is full of characters and one of them is our local newspaper editor John Drescher, who’s done more to put a stop to corruption than anyone in sight, except George Holding our United States Attorney; Drescher puts the underhanded politicians on the front page then George introduces them to the Grand Jury. I’ve…
Read MoreMemo to Congressman Brad Miller and all congressional Democrats: Stop ducking town meetings on health-care reform. Open the doors wide. Invite everybody – opponents included. And let them rant and rave if that’s what they are determined to do. Nothing could do more to help the health care-reform campaign. The more the…
Read MoreWhenever a lady starts a sentence by saying with perfect politeness, I just wanted to point out…well, any male who’s dealt with southern women knows he’s in deep trouble. A very nice lady called from state government the other morning about a blog I wrote about the State Department of Transportation spending $29,000 to…
Read MoreThis may be the single craziest thing the United States Government has ever done. The President and the Congress – Democrats and Republicans alike – decided it was a good idea to go out and buy a billion dollars worth of ‘clunkers’ then the response was so phenomenal it took them by surprise. Apparently they…
Read MoreWhy is the President’s popularity holding up – while Governor Perdue’s has collapsed? Back in the old days Jim Hunt and Jesse Helms cut a broad swath through our neck of the woods; they were political heavy-weights and it’s beginning to look like Barack Obama’s cut from the same bolt of cloth. President Obama,…
Read MoreWasn’t it great to see the Big Dog back again? There was Bill Clinton – out of the doghouse and back in the limelight he so loves. Grinning. Biting his lip. Hugging Al Gore! Bubba looked great. White hair shining. Aides (the small, dark-skinned guy was John “Skippy” Podesta, ex-Clinton COS and Obama…
Read MoreI’ve got a bad feeling about this. My hair’s standing up on my neck the way it did early in 1994. But four months earlier this time. Obama is struggling to keep control of the agenda. August will be crucial. If the right-wing attacks on health care reform, deficits, cash-for-clunkers and “Not Born…
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Fifty-four years ago this week, on May 8, 1970, 4,500 students from nearly a dozen colleges…
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A peasant’s son Martin Luther never knew the year he was born. Believing children were wicked…
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After Rodrigo Borgia died, soft-spoken but cunning Leo de Medici became pope, after bribing cardinals ended…
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