Political Terror

Republicans – including Senator Richard Burr – couldn’t wait to blame the Obama administration for the Christmas Day terrorist scare.   In other words, to indulge in the kind of politics they called unpatriotic when Bush and Cheney were in charge.   Let’s look at some facts.   A. Burr agrees with the President that…

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Bev and New Year’s Resolutions

At breakfast the other day, a friend pointed to his mocha and cinnamon-crunch bagel. “I’m doing this today because starting January 1 I’m losing 20 pounds,” he vowed.   I congratulated him. And wished him luck. That’s a hard resolution to keep; most resolvers fail.   But Governor Perdue has done it.   She recently…

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Eat the Rabbits

Sometimes folks get so carried away with their passions they just go plain crazy – and I’m not talking about Tiger Woods.   I’m talking about two Environmentalists at Victoria University.   In addition to wrestling with the problem of trying to be open-minded instead of blinded by their passion to save the planet Environmentalists…

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Relatives and ‘Recusals:’ Democrat Style

Tony Rand is Chairman of Law Enforcement Associates, and when he got accused of insider trading he told shareholders there’d be an ‘independent’ investigation – then picked his buddy Lyndo Tippett (the former Secretary of Transportation) to lead the investigation.   About the same time a lady in Florida was suing Rand’s company, saying it…

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One Year

A year is a long time in politics. One year ago: Barack Obama was a colossus, a superstar who had transformed politics Bev Perdue was about to enjoy a (short) honeymoon The clouds over Mike Easley were just gathering Tony Rand was ready for another turn as second-in-command of the Senate Wake County Democrats were…

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Controlling the Narrative

The cable-TV blabbermouths are all over the Obama administration over the Christmas Day terrorist scare.   The know-it-alls proclaim that this is a PR disaster for the White House. The message machine was asleep. Obama was slow on the uptake. Janet Napolitano blew it.   Napolitano did blow it. But I’m not so sure Obama…

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Flim-Flam

You can’t really fault the State Democratic Party Chairman for tying himself in knots to praise Governor Perdue – but, then, maybe you can. Or, maybe, we should fault whoever on Bev Perdue’s staff wrote David Young’s latest email to voters.   Chairman Young (or his ghostwriter) begins his lament by telling voters about all…

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How to Get Out of a Mess

The state’s received a whopping $7.5 billion in ‘Stimulus Funds’ and a good part of it was to pay for Medicaid but, despite President Obama’s help, Secretary Lanier Cansler’s got a train wreck on his hands after he gave out $250 million in no bid contracts, a lot of them to his cronies and former…

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Tony Rand and Integrity

Governor Perdue’s Parole Commissioner Tony Rand’s got plenty of troubles: He’s being investigated by the FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission (and, maybe worst of all for a politician, an investigative reporter from the News and Observer) for what looks like a scheme he cooked up to have the state buy police equipment from…

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Polls – Burr

There’s been a lot of back and forth about new polls in the Senate Race. For instance, The Civitas Institute poll has Senator Richard Burr up:   ·         Richard Burr               40% ·         Elaine Marshall           32% ·         Undecided                  28%   Some folks are saying this is good news for Burr but it looks to me like the news…

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