The Big Dog Speaks

By Gary Pearce | 2012-08-02 |

Here’s why I’m glad Bill Clinton will have a big role at the Democratic convention: Nobody in American politics today is a better contrast to how brain-dead American politics is today.   Clinton is the one national figure who can weave sensible policy proposals from the extremes of left and right, the one politician who…

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Just Plain Bad Manners

By Carter Wrenn | 2012-08-01 |

WRAL-TV put an Internet link on its website to a map that shows streets where concealed handgun permit holders live – the map doesn’t give the handgun permit holders’ names or addresses it simply reports, say, ‘two’ permit holders live on Maple Avenue.   That didn’t sit well with the pro-gun lobby Grass Roots North…

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Burr as Veep?

By Gary Pearce | 2012-08-01 |

Maybe Senator Richard Burr sees himself as the best running mate for Mitt Romney.   In an interview with WBT radio, he said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) could use “a little more experience.”   He called Kelly Ayotte out of New Hampshire a “longshot.”   And he had faint praise for former Minnesota Gov. Tim…

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