Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
What are they serving these days at governor’s conferences and Senate caucuses? Viagra? Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, David Vitter, John Ensign and now Mark Sanford. One story has it that Sanford’s staff merely misunderstood him. They thought he said he would be “on the Appalachian Trial,” but he actually said “on some Argentine…
Read MoreMrs. Easley’s lost her scholastic robes and left the stage at NCSU to a communal sigh of relief;—but there’s an important question left unanswered: Who pulled the strings to get her the job? After all, when someone robs a bank, gets caught and gives back part of the money they don’t get a medal…
Read MoreSome people never seem to learn and Democratic Senator Doug Berger is looking like a case in point. State Senator Berger, who back in his student days at Chapel Hill signed up for something called the ‘Democratic Socialists of America,’ is now head of the Senate Sub-Committee on Health Care. The other day, after…
Read MoreRichard Vinroot is right: How can the legislature tax the services of mechanics and hairdressers, but not lawyers? Of course, lawyers write the tax legislation. But Democrats are getting themselves into enough political trouble without being elitist, too. Governor Perdue is on her “Save the Schools – and My Poll Ratings” tour. Democrats in the…
Read MoreOver in the legislature, the Democrats took out an axe and cut just about every program in sight from education to health care – and each Democratic legislator voted for it. Then once the Democrats had made half the state mad they turned around and supported a billion dollar tax increase – and made…
Read MoreBefore Father’s Day Barack Obama (whose own father left home when Obama was two years old) speaking to a group of fatherless boys, said, “Just because your father wasn’t there for you, that’s no excuse for you to be absent also…you have an obligation to break the cycle and learn from those mistakes…” No one…
Read MoreBig Tobacco’s big defeat in Congress this month just goes to show that in politics there are no final victories. Turn the page back to 1994. That’s the year Congressman Henry Waxman hauled the top tobacco-company executives before Congress – lining them up and administering the oath like they were Mafia dons. …
Read MoreIt’s hard to imagine a better week – at least in North Carolina – for Republicans. The grand jury’s investigating Governor Easley about the Southport Marina. And Professor Mrs. Easley’s job at NCSU. And Easley’s real estate deal at the beach. And Easley’s free travel. And free vacations. Easley Contributors are testifying, Chancellors are testifying,…
Read MoreI was talking this week with a very smart person who knows what is going on with health care reform in Washington. She said President Obama’s goal is to get a reform bill enacted into law by the end of October. But that depends on Senate Democrats getting 60 votes to force action. …
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I’ve resisted the temptation to rail every day about Trump’s cruelty, corruption and incompetence – and…
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Jeanette Hyde went from Miss Yadkin County to Madam Ambassador. Hyde, who died Monday at age…
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We’ve heard a lot about stolen votes – but here’s the best way to steal an…
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