Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Congressman Jeff Jackson is the best political communicator in North Carolina. His social media posts yesterday on the banking situation are a master class in explaining volatile, complex issues in simple, plain-spoken terms. Last night, I saw that his video had been viewed over one million times. I’m a print guy, so I read his…
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On stage, standing at a podium, staring at a battalion of supporters, Trump purred, ‘I am your retribution.’ He then mocked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, taking retribution, promised more retribution, ‘I will totally obliterate the deep state.’ No one asked why he didn’t do that when he was sitting in the Oval Office. Ron DeSantis…
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“I hate him” – Trump – “passionately.” Put yourself in Donald Trump’s shoes: Did he feel betrayed when he read Tucker Carlson’s saying ‘I hate him’? He’d helped Carlson. Carlson had cheered him. Then Dominion sued Fox News and Carlson’s text message telling coworkers he hated Trump landed in a courtroom. On election night three…
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State Senator Phil Berger and Speaker Tim Moore took a beaming star turn before the cameras when they announced their agreement on expanding Medicaid. They pointedly excluded Governor Roy Cooper. But make no mistake: This is Cooper’s victory. It is a signal accomplishment of his administration. It means 600,000 North Carolinians will get better health…
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A young girl walking to a grocery store at night was raped at knife point; pregnant, back in the 1960s, she went to get an illegal abortion, stared at a blood-stained table, left – gave birth to her daughter, put her up for adoption. Nineteen years later the daughter – Rebecca Kiessling – met her…
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Suing Fox News for $1.6 billion, to prove Fox knew Trump’s claims ‘the election was stolen’ weren’t true, Dominion Voting Systems released Fox TV stars’ emails and text messages. Tucker Carlson texted Laura Ingraham: “Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I caught her. It’s insane.” Ingraham responded: “Sidney is a complete nut. No one…
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When George Washington was twelve years old his father died; he caught smallpox at nineteen, recovered; leading the Continental Army endured Valley Forge, suffered defeats, won Yorktown, after the Revolution refused to be made King. Abraham Lincoln lost his mother when he was nine; poor, as a boy he worked, handed money he earned to…
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One of the truly worst ideas in the history of American politics is a convention of the states to rewrite the Constitution. One of the truly worst people in the history of American politics, Rick Santorum, was in Raleigh this week pushing the idea. When Santorum represented Pennsylvania in the Senate from 1995 to 2007,…
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The day Putin’s tanks rolled into Ukraine, Finland’s President said, “Now the mask’s off.” Russian missiles hammering Ukraine shocked Americans – but it created an earthquake in Europe. For decades Europe’s leaders, smiling, thought peace in the lands they lived in was a given – Putin rocked their world. Finland, Sweden, immediately applied to join…
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The tumult and the shouting dies; The Captains and the Kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient…
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Bert Bennett of Winston-Salem, the legendary political godfather to Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt, had a…
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This is bad. Bad for America and for the world. Bad for women, for immigrants, for…
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