Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
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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Trump read a story about Ron DeSantis, tore into the New York Post on the internet for what he called ‘a puff piece,’ took a breath, added, ‘DeSantis is a RINO…getting clobbered in the polls by me,’ took another breath, shrugged, ‘I don’t read the Post anymore. It’s fake news, just like Fox & WSJ!’…
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Introduced as “the most exciting Episcopalian in history,” Presiding Bishop Michael Curry didn’t disappoint. Of course, being the most exciting Episcopalian in history is “a low bar,” Rector Greg Jones joked as he presented Bishop Curry to the audience at St. Michael’s Church in Raleigh Monday night. Then Bishop Curry set a high bar for…
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It’s a long-running debate with long-running impact on North Carolina: cut taxes or improve education? This year, again, the Republican-controlled legislature is set on cutting taxes and starving public schools, even with a $3 billion-plus surplus that could significantly raise the quality of education. For 60 years, the state made a series of different decisions.…
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The lawyer for five Proud Boys on trial for storming the Capitol on January 6 said in the courtroom: “Donald Trump called on patriots to stop the steal. We’re calling on Donald Trump to take the stand.” Watching Trump sitting on the witness stand glaring at prosecutors, answering questions, would be entertaining – and if…
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I’m old enough to know the problems an 80-year-old man can face. I get why Democrats worry. The gait stiffens, hearing gets iffy and words – names! – can be elusive. But old people know a lot that young people don’t. We know, first of all, what it’s like to be young. Young people don’t…
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Jimmy Carter burst onto America my first year in politics, 1976. I had just joined Jim Hunt’s first campaign for governor. Democrats here feared 1976 would be a repeat of 1968 and 1972, when liberal, Northern presidential nominees, Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern, sank the party in the South. Then came Carter. He was different…
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They knew it was a lie. They knew Biden won and Trump lost. But they told the lie anyway, nightly and relentlessly. The Fox News crowd – Rupert Murdoch, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham – knew that Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and their crazy conspiracy claims were a crock. They emailed each other…
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A decade ago when Republicans took control of Congress they banned ‘earmarks.’ Then Democrats retook control and put earmarks back. Last election Republicans won but, back in power, want to keep earmarks. At dusk, as shadows spread in the closing days of the Democratic Congress last year, hidden in a bill Democrats gave Congressman a…
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The Past, Never Past, Just Keeps Repeating Itself Off and running, campaign racing down the road,…
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One voice roared the man who killed fourteen people in New Orleans was angry because he…
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America inters a decent, honest President and inaugurates a dishonest, indecent President. Jimmy Carter called on…
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