Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Last summer, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Lanier Cansler, told the legislature there were fifteen thousand senior citizens cheating Medicaid by getting Home Care even though they were healthy. So the legislators told Cansler, Alright. Hire doctors, examine the patients, and get the ones who aren’t sick off Medicaid. …
How long it took some nut on Fox News to blame President Obama, “socialist” Democrats, the IRS and big government for driving the Texas kamikaze pilot over the edge.
The toughest shot in golf is the drive off the first tee with a crowd watching. So I thought Tiger’s first shot off the public tee was a good one. All the self-styled PR experts will keep promoting themselves by critiquing his performance and offering their invaluable observations. But my son James…
It’s frightening how Cal Cunningham, the Democrat’s new boy-wonder, has begun to remind me of John Edwards. Just look at Cunningham’s picture in Wikipedia. It’s eerie. The same impish grin. The same hair. And Cunningham, like Edwards, is a candidate straight out of central casting: He steps onto the stage, opens a script and starts…
Since when does an obviously political and apparently unsupported charge by the state Republican Party chairman rate a screaming, streaming headline across Page B1 in The News & Observer? The third graf of the story said: ‘The head of the state elections board said Wednesday that officials are reviewing how all gubernatorial campaigns…
Politico has an excellent overview of what’s happening to once-Republican states that went Democratic in 2008 – including North Carolina. One reason it’s excellent, of course, is that it quotes me. Click here to read the analysis.
Maybe I’ve got this wrong but it seems like for years state government was bumbling and fumbling, but basically – except for the occasional road building scandal – honest. Now, times have changed. State government is still bumbling but its also learned chicanery and sleight of hand. Follow this story from the newspaper the…
Can Erskine Bowles save America? Can history repeat itself? I was about halfway through the book The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President, by Taylor Branch, when I heard that President Obama will name Erskine and another Great Compromiser, former Senator Alan Simpson, to lead a national commission on the budget deficit. …
Last summer, Governor Perdue promised legislators huge spending cuts in Medicaid if they’d let her pass out $250 million in no bid contracts – which she said would bring cost saving efficiencies. They did. She did. But no savings materialized. Instead, the Department of Health and Human Services is $250 million over budget.…
How do you get your news? Our statewide poll asked North Carolina voters what their primary…
Thom Tillis and Phil Berger fed the MAGA alligator. Then it ate them. Thomas Mills wrote…
Exactly 80 years ago, in 1946, Republicans took control of Congress with a simple message: “Had…