Talking About Politics

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.

Carter Wrenn

Gary Pearce

Joe Sinsheimer came down last week on Mark Mellman, the House Democrats’ pollster, for counseling against raising taxes. (I read this, by the way, on Facebook. Going on it is paying off for me.) Like a lot of Democrats, Joe is enraged about budget cuts proposed in the House. It looks like the…

Easley and the Press

By Gary Pearce • 2009-05-28

Up is Down

By Carter Wrenn • 2009-05-28

Please Oppose Her

By Gary Pearce • 2009-05-27

Easleygate

By Gary Pearce • 2009-05-22

Protests and Presidents

By Gary Pearce • 2024-05-03

Fifty-four years ago this week, on May 8, 1970, 4,500 students from nearly a dozen colleges…

A World Lit Only by Fire – Part III

By Carter Wrenn • 2024-05-03

A peasant’s son Martin Luther never knew the year he was born. Believing children were wicked…

A World Lit Only by Fire – Part II

By Carter Wrenn • 2024-05-02

After Rodrigo Borgia died, soft-spoken but cunning Leo de Medici became pope, after bribing cardinals ended…

Carter is a Republican. Gary is a Democrat.

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