Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Duane Hall didn’t let party leaders push him out. So the voters threw him out. Hall’s handling of sexual harassment accusations smacked of Trump. Hall denied ever doing anything wrong. He attacked the women who spoke up. He attacked the media as having a “personal vendetta” against him. Only 27 percent of the primary voters…
Read MoreDuane Hall didn’t let party leaders push him out. So the voters threw him out. Hall’s handling of sexual harassment accusations smacked of Trump. Hall denied ever doing anything wrong. He attacked the women who spoke up. He attacked the media as having a “personal vendetta” against him. Only 27 percent of the primary voters…
Read MoreThe N&O has left its old home, about the same time I stopped getting the paper at home. I hope the change works out for both of us. It may be tough for them. I hear money is tight there, and my going digital-only is a $470 hit to their revenues. Rob Christensen was right…
Read MoreNow, I could do a blog with that title every day. And I choose not to go down that path. But this is a special case. Who past the age of 10 fakes a doctor’s note? And who would write things like “he would without doubt be the healthiest individual ever elected President”? Just one,…
Read MoreThis is how Democrats can turn the much-hyped “blue wave” into barely a ripple. This is why I tell Republicans who fear a Democratic landslide this year, “Don’t worry. We’ll find a way to screw it up. We’ve got our best people working on it.” Equality NC says it won’t support Democratic legislators who voted…
Read MoreA recent death moved Gene Upchurch, a retired Progress Energy executive, to write this tribute: When I read the N&O’s obituary of Pat Taylor, the former lieutenant governor who died Sunday at the age of 94, it occurred to me that I might be the only person in the state who was actually hypnotized by…
Read MoreNo blog I’ve ever done got more reaction than “Should I renew The N&O?” in February. A lot of readers told me how to get out of paying $600 a year. Threaten to cancel, they said, and you can negotiate a lower rate. Several people, one an old N&O hand, said they did cancel –…
Read MoreYou don’t have to be a Junior G-Man to be wary of James Comey. After all, he was the American League MVP in Trump’s election, thanks to his late hit on Hillary Clinton. (Vladimir Putin and Cambridge Analytica tied for Foreign League MVP.) Still, Comey is right about two things: (1) Trump is “morally unfit”…
Read MoreThis is how fast things move in Trump Times. On Monday federal agents raided the office, home and hotel room of Trump’s lawyer. Then Trump ranted that it’s an attack on America. He might shut down the investigations and fire everybody. That raised the threat grew of a constitutional and political bloodbath. Somewhere in there…
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If you seek political asylum the next four years, try Iceland. We went there last week…
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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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