Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
My friend and New Media guru Matt Gross argues that President Obama is wrong to keep pushing health-care reform up the steep Senate hill. Instead, Gross says, Obama should kill the bill, blame the Republicans and go to war over the public-option issue in the 2010 elections. The White House is hostage to…
Read MoreThere was a pretty glowing report in the paper Wednesday about the Copenhagen Summit, saying just about everyone’s agreed to compensate poor countries for preserving forests and swamps. (Just think, once, not too long ago draining a swamp was a virtue). It seems the big hurdle standing in the way of an agreement was…
Read MoreGovernor Perdue has the Easley scandal on her hands and the Tony Rand scandal on her hands and she’s got a Cabinet Secretary – Lanier Cansler – who used to be a lobbyist passing out $250 million in no bid contracts, a lot of them to his friends and former clients. Her solution has…
Read MoreThe Greensboro News & Record and The News & Observer piled on Governor Perdue for being “angry” (GN&R) and “intemperate” (N&O) over the release of life-sentence inmates. They’re appalled that she’s “appalled…angry…disgusted…and furious” over murderers and rapists going free. Hold the presses. Is her concern so unreasonable? These are criminals who were sentenced…
Read MoreLook for a third head to roll under the new Wake school board regime. First was ex-Chairman Kevin Hill. Then – as predicted in this blog (you could look it up) – Tharrington Smith law firm. Next up: Superintendent Del Burns. When the new crowd was recruiting candidates earlier this year, they…
Read MorePresident Obama did something remarkable for a President in his speech to America about Afghanistan and in his Nobel Peace Prize speech. He told the truth about war. Bush misled us into Iraq. Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon misled and lied us into Vietnam. Even the sainted FDR misled Americans before WWII. (“Your boys…
Read MoreHere is the real world of politics. Imagine you’re Governor Perdue’s political adviser. You’re trying to solve her poll problems. You’re looking for policy ideas and initiatives she can push. You’re tweaking her schedule for maximum media. You’re branching into new media and online communications. Then you hear this exchange between a drug-store…
Read MoreTiger Woods, Mark Sanford and John Edwards should arrange a threesome – on the golf course, that is. They have a lot in common. Like how to fall so far so fast. The Roaming Eye of the Tiger makes Sanford and Edwards look tame. Last I checked, Tiger was something like 10 or…
Read MoreRepublicans may have awakened a sleeping giant in WakeCounty. First came the arrogance of the new school board majority. Then came the county commissioners’ Potty-Break Putsch. Suddenly, Wake County Democrats stopped griping about how President Obama, Governor Perdue and the Democratic Congress haven’t yet produced Utopia. They realize that last year’s election…
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Senator Thom Tillis is a good politician. He may be good enough to preserve his image…
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No, Trump’s blitzkrieg hasn’t left Democrats hapless, hopeless and rudderless. Here’s one example of the immense…
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It’s a kind of mystery – will hitting Canada and Mexico with tariffs land us in…
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