It seems, or at least appears from reading the newspapers, that each successive generation of Democratic leaders in North Carolina is less concerned a...

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In the beginning was the word.   Senator Barack Obama’s rhetoric has accomplished what we Republicans have failed to do for years.  He’s u...

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The other night, lying in bed, I stopped clicking long enough to watch an old black and white movie. Talk of the Town it's like Mr. Smith Goes to Wash...

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We apparently got all excited over nothing.  North Carolina’s presidential primary may not matter after all.   If Hillary Clinton loses Te...

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Imagine this: Barack Obama and John McCain are debating in October.   Senator McCain says: ‘As I said at the time, early in the war we made mi...

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Senator Barack Obama told supporters Sunday in Ohio: “I don’t think NAFTA has been good for American’s, and I never have.”   But, four years ag...

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North Carolina chicken king Edgar Marvin Johnson must feel like he’s been tarred and feathered by The Charlotte Observer. If the Observer’s reports ar...

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You can’t help but be intrigued – if by nothing else – by the irrationality of local politics.   The last three elections Mayor Meeker has swe...

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Since Claude Sitton retired from The News & Observer, North Carolina editors have been an invisible lot.  John Drescher may be changing that ...

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