When I worked at The News & Observer long, long ago, there was a legendary editor named Bob Brooks.   Bob brooked no runarounds from big sh...

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Tom Fetzer is a smart guy. I’m thinking of endorsing him for state Republican Chair. That’s because he would be good, and I don’t want a good GOP chai...

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How confident is Erskine Bowles of his standing in the legislature? Confident enough to tell the Appropriations Committee that Governor Perdue’s UNC b...

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Well, I’d say Obama did pretty well at his press conference the other night – so he must just have been off his game a couple of weeks ago at his firs...

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The most striking thing President Obama said in his news conference last night was: "I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak.”   H...

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Right-wingers are so mad at President Obama for trying to fix the economy they’re renewing a war they lost 75 years ago – against FDR and the New Deal...

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State Senator Charlie Albertson has a bill guaranteed to get people talking.   It’s simple. Just one page. It prohibits any participation in at...

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It’s right there on the front page of the newspaper: The governor’s got a $3.4 billion hole in the budget to wrestle to the ground and fill – so she’s...

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The blabbering classes are taking up pitchforks and torches over the AIG bonuses. The AIGate question now becomes: What did the President/Secretary of...

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Well, Obama’s after A.I.G. hammer and tongs. Which is fine. More than fine.   But there’re also a couple of overlooked questions worth conside...

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