Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
This afternoon an email flies in over the transom: The states broke and Governor Perdue’s been forced to call for a $1.6 billion tax increase. An hour later another email flies in over the transom: The Department and Health and Human Services has just had to make an emergency appropriation for ‘items needed by…
Read MoreNearly a year later, we now see how reckless John McCain was to pick Sarah Palin for Vice President. Suppose McCain had won. Suppose he had died in office or become incapacitated. The woman who made that incoherent and incomprehensible statement last week – so strange it made Mark Sanford look sane – would…
Read MoreTwo “issue” ad campaigns caught my eye this week. They show where this kind of media strategy is going. One ad was about U.S. Senator Kay Hagan and the others, state Senator Doug Berger. When I first saw the ad about Hagan, I thought: She’s already running a campaign ad? It sounded just…
Read MoreAs good as our Democratic politicians here in North Carolina are at providing us with scandals…the Academy Award this year is going to South Carolina’s Governor. Nobody’s seen anything like what’s going on ‘South of the Border’ since Sherman burnt Columbia. See if you can figure this out: The Governor went to…
Read MoreBack when Lauch Faircloth was a Democrat in Jim Hunt’s Cabinet (pre-1984), he liked to say a governor had to have “command presence.” Governor Perdue’s poll numbers may be low because the public does not see that quality in her today. Speaker Joe Hackney had what struck me as a might chilly reaction…
Read MoreCould there be three more quintessential American stories than Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Billy Mays? Jackson was the Elvis Presley of his day. He and Elvis were racial crossovers, bringing black music into white America. Someone told me Jackson was the first black performer on MTV back in the days when the network…
Read MoreThe Home and Hospice Care Association folks are giving State Senator Doug Berger a run for his money. Yesterday they aired a TV ad in his district. Today they put a video on the Internet. (View Ad Below) In his State Senate Committee Berger cut home care for 20,000 patients on Medicaid. The reason he…
Read MoreIt’s been a rough couple of elections for Republicans, so I can understand how happy today’s news is making Carter (see his blog below). But how can you blame him? Just when you thought the John Edwards affair could not sink lower, here comes Andrew Young. Just when you thought Mark Sanford…
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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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