Archive for June 2011
What I Missed
Here’s what I gleaned from two days of catching up with the news of the past two weeks: John Edwards got indicted. And promptly dug himself a deeper hole by jumping in front of the cameras. The aptly named Anthony Weiner imploded online. Newt Gingrich imploded at sea. (“Imploded” may be to 2012…
Read MoreWhat I Did on My Summer Vacation
Probably nobody ever cares what you did on your vacation. But here it is anyway. We spent a week in Paris and saw most everything, including Notre Dame, the Louvre, Shakespeare & Co. bookstore, the Marais, the French military museum (I didn’t know it was DeGaulle who won the war!), big crowds at the…
Read MoreCansler Strikes Again
Lobbyist turned Cabinet Secretary (and No-Bid-Contract-Awarder) Lanier Cansler has landed himself back in court. Sued for the third time. What’s got Cansler in a mess this time is his predilection for nursing homes – he seems to be about the only person in North Carolina who thinks it’s better to put an elderly person…
Read MoreScreaming Bloody Murder
The Democrat head of the State Board of Education has gotten himself worked up into such a state about the Republican budget and the Republicans ruining public schools he’s one step from either bursting an artery or starting a riot. To hear him tell it Governor Perdue’s budget will bring light to education and…
Read MoreSkating on Thin Ice
Talk about a fellow coming up a day late and a dollar short. Sunday there was a picture in the newspaper of John Edwards standing beside his ‘P.R. specialist’ in front of the courthouse where he’d just been indicted. Unfortunately for Edwards restoring his dented image is beyond the arts of the cleverest…
Read MoreBehind the Curtain
Speaker Thom Tillis slipped up and left a microphone on during a ‘behind closed doors’ Republican Caucus, so every word he said was beamed straight into the press room at the General Assembly where reporters listened agog to the leaders in the legislature making high-level policy. Policy #1 – On redistricting, House Republican Leader…
Read MoreBeyond Our Reach
The country’s in a muddle and here’s how we got in this mess: The Wall Street Masters of the Universe cross-pollinated with the Washington Politicians and gave birth to the ‘Housing Bubble’ – which burst. As the economy sank the Politicians loudly blamed Wall Street but since, they said, the country couldn’t survive with…
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