here's a current story in the guardian uk that reveals mr. john droz to be an anti-environmental insider with rather profound anti-wind agenda: www.guardian.co.uk

Commented: Thursday, May 10th, 2012 @ 11:41 am By: alyce santoro

Now that is rich.

I never had the sense that Jerry was fully in control when he ran for county commissioner. But then again, maybe I am just giving him the benefit of the doubt. I'm prone to do that.

Commented: Friday, May 4th, 2012 @ 11:14 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Brandia, this looks delicious. Quiche is wonderful because it can be served at breakfast, lunch, or dinner! A couple dashes of nutmeg also make for an interesting addition of flavor and goes especially well with swiss cheese.

Commented: Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 @ 3:04 pm By: Lynn Deatherage

Great work Dustin...

Commented: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 @ 8:50 pm By: David Winstead

Ditto!

Commented: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 @ 9:53 am By: Stan Deatherage

Let's get a Republican to run in November as a write-in for Attorney General against Cooper - how about a huge grassroots campaign for a powerful GOP lawyer nominee patriot who loves freedom - someone like the incomparable Justice Rusty Duke.

Commented: Monday, April 30th, 2012 @ 10:09 pm By: Mattie Lawson

Awesome job Dustin! I love all the sound editing, it really added a lot to the "creepy" effect.

Commented: Sunday, April 29th, 2012 @ 12:08 pm By: Lynn Deatherage

As publisher of BCN, no reasonable person will suggest, openly, that I am stepping inside that circle, or even standing along its perimeter, firing along with the others.

What a reasonable person can say; however, is that I will publish any adequately presented commentary, or comments from anyone. If I find the time, I will publish all decent press releases as well - even ones from Democrats seeking delegates to represent themselves to their National Convention in Charlotte.

Man, what was that all about?

As someone who cares deeply about this county and its father-state, I want the very best candidate to represent us to Raleigh. With both Mattie and Jeremy, I am convinced that we may have that person.

With Arthur: Not so much.

Commented: Friday, April 27th, 2012 @ 8:45 am By: Stan Deatherage

Mr Cayton, et al,

Challenging a principle or an action on its merits should always be within the realm of fair play.

But placing blame for a firing circle when my candidacy and my person has been under attack since day three (many, many unfounded attacks, some withdrawn from the internet and some not. At one point 50% of my opponents website was dedicated to me, including a whole page because I was "whining" about her attacking me after we agreed to run a clean race) and then suddenly when my campaign responds, there is a response from you?

Where were you two months ago? You certainly weren't chastising your candidate for her personal negative (and mostly false) attacks.

You also seem to notice when one candidate was picked by a faction in Raleigh, but not your own candidate by another faction in Raleigh despite that she admitted that she was selected on tape in your forum.

You want to put forth a legislative candidate who's best trick is just attacking and sidelining other members of the party?

When Pat McCrory wins, when I win, when half a dozen other Republican candidates win that have been polarized by her campaign (and her choosing folks who she herself called RINOs only a year ago over other local candidates)... how is she going to come back from that? She cannot then support me, or Pat McCrory, or any of the half dozen others she has been sidelining because she has been tearing us down during the primary?

Before we started this race we agreed that we would run our own clean races and then whoever would win, would then support the other in the general elections. Be honest. That cannot happen any longer after months of attacks.

By all means, please criticize the application of conservative principles. Everyone certainly should do that. But this hypocrisy of trying to lay blame on others for this rift has got to stop.

This rift was started by one person and one campaign and it most certainly was not mine or the people who realized towards the end of the primary campaign that I was the strongest Constitutional Conservative candidate and then in turn backed me.

You cannot turn back time unfortunately. Perhaps Raleigh should have made a better "selection".

Commented: Friday, April 27th, 2012 @ 6:43 am By: Jeremy D. Adams

Thank-you for the heads-up, Jeremy. You are right. The Carolina Journal has made the changes, which we have uploaded accordingly.

Jerremy, when you tell me that you are "pro-life," I trust your words to be of an honorable nature.

Commented: Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 @ 7:34 pm By: Stan Deatherage

It's like the saying goes, "if you go looking for trouble you WILL find it" and this guy didn't even have to go far from his own front door. Very funny.

Commented: Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 @ 11:18 am By: Lynn Deatherage

I take it you think my article is crappy.

If our government (all 3 branches) had continued to provide the tools and the freedom parents need to raise their children properly and not done all it possibly could to frustrate their efforts, we wouldn't need to "evolve" as you suggest and government wouldn't need to continue its cycle of control and oppression. Schools should still be allowed to reflect on religious principles, schools should still emphasize morality and not the opposite, schools should not support homosexuality and other immortal lifestyles, schools should focus on education and not racial quotas, and government shouldn't promise free money as a reward for having and raising children out of wedlock. All these decisions (except the last) were not made by the will of the people but rather by progressive judges. But that last program, perhaps the most destructive of all on the upbringing of our children is the one most strongly protected by Democrats. There is simply no promotion of good and productive human values underlying their programs. They are all about the destruction of them.

I don't see a single bit of evidence to suggest that the Tea Party movement or its ideology is fading. Rather, I think the opposite. For example, do you know that the #1 question submitted in the GOP presidential debates this year was typified by the question posed by a couple from Spencer, Indiana: "There is a growing concern on the part of Americans as to the size and scope of the federal government and on teh infringement of state and individual rights. If you are elected President, what do you intend to do to restore the Tenth Amendment and hold the government only to those enumerated powers in the Constitution and allow the states to govern themselves?" This is not the type of question citizens have asked in the past. On the other hand, this question shows the impact of the Tea Party.

A similar question was asked of the candidates - "What is the President's responsibility in the face of a Congressional bill that exceeds the powers in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution?" One candidate answered (and I can't remember which one): "The President's responsibility would be to veto every single bill that violates the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment." Again, that sounds like Tea Party influence.

We're suffering selective amnesia in this country. We've forgotten what we stand for and where we came from. The Tea Party is helping people to overcome that amnesia and make sense of why we have the freedoms that we do, how our Founders secured them, and what responsibilities are incumbent upon a people who wish to keep and protect them.

Commented: Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 @ 1:34 pm By: Diane Rufino

Ms. Rufino has given us a great analogy to frame the debate of the role of the federal government. She has also given us a great reason why the Tea Party movement is fading quickly as an ideology. The role of parenthood is clear: to raise our children to be independent, productive individuals in our society. Being a responsible parent requires that we instill in our children a sense of responsibility for themselves and those around them. Children cannot and do not learn these traits on their own. The reality is that we give them everything they need to develop. Inherent in that role is a balance to be played as the child grows older; the growing child must understand the boundaries that society and civility place on them. If there are no effective and defined boundaries, then unbridled freedom becomes anarchy very quickly. The government is not our parent. However, I would suggest that as our society continues to evolve in directions our founders could never have fathomed, effective governance becomes more and more critical to our ability to move forward as a nation.

Commented: Saturday, April 21st, 2012 @ 1:24 pm By: Mike Hayes

Wyatt,

I did not read the book, but I have seen the movie, and I noticed other holes in the story that just did not make any sense, and I could not suspend disbelief as well.

The holes that I noticed: the reaping of the children in district 12, which I presume would be part or all of the southeastern United States. The reaping stipulated that all children between 12 and 18 must participate - no exceptions.

Where were all the children from District 12?

If there are 12 districts in Panem, and let's say that 90% of the present population is gone for what ever reason, 200 years into the future. For just North Carolina alone, there would still be a million people. Now that is a lot of 12 to 18 year-olds.

The next gaping hole in the story is the fire storm use to rout-out Katnis. That fire induced maelstrom would have been inextinguishable in a matter of hours. That is just the reality of it.

It was a decent movie; however, there are certain limitations in this physical world that can not be breached, unless you consider that your audience is patently stupid, and will accept this nonsense.

Commented: Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 @ 9:26 pm By: Stan Deatherage

The intent of the motion that I seconded was to allow there to be an open listing to all Real Estate Brokers, licensed to do business in North Carolina, not to list with one broker.

In essence, the property would be openly listed on Beaufort County's website, with an offering price and guaranteed commission at that price point. Real Estate Brokers, including Realtors, would be allowed to market that property and list it on their internet sites, but without an exclusive agreement to do so.

The idea here is to provide this opportunity openly to all, while not be required to pay an exclusive fee, should the county representative sell the property.

Commented: Monday, April 16th, 2012 @ 9:16 am By: Stan Deatherage

Hmm... Listening to Mr. Warren's queries about the EDC's per job costs sounded like the "shovel-ready" boondoggle of the Obama Administration's "Stimulus Bills."

Perhaps Commissioner Klemm should have simply said what Obama said: "I guess they weren't as shovel-ready as I thought." The free market doesn't need a taxpayer-funded economic development commission. Only crony-capitalists profit and the taxpayers lose...every time.

If you have to bribe businesses to move into your area, you might consider the real reasons they want tax-breaks and special deals. Are your K-12, trade and technical schools producing qualified educated workers? Is the infrastructure sufficient to allow reasonable ingress and egress of all the various stakeholders, (employees, clients, customers, etc...)

Is the tax base appealing to prospective business investors? Provide a climate that is conducive to new or expanding business ventures and "they will come." Beaufort County is a beautiful place with wonderful people, a proud history that goes back hundreds of years, and sunsets that are only a postcard-dream to folks across the country.

Without proper oversight by the commissioners, the Economic Development Commission may as well be the Warren Commission, looking for a magic bullet to explain the unexplainable.

Commented: Monday, March 19th, 2012 @ 2:45 am By: Jeff Lewis

Much of this great country is currently embroiled in the Voter Photo-ID question, an issue that could easily decide the results of a close election. I grew up believing that the United States was founded on certain principles that set it apart from the rest of the nations of the world. In addition to our basic rights, two of these principles stand out above the rest. The first of these tenets i...s that a person accused of a crime is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and the second is the right of all citizens to vote in free elections.

It has often been said that it is better to let 1,000 guilty parties go free than convict a single innocent person. Using the same premise with regard to elections, isn't it better to allow a dozen voters without IDs to cast ballots than to deny even a single person who is otherwise entitled to vote? If we are to err on this issue it should be on the side of over-inclusion, and not unjust exclusion.

Commented: Sunday, March 18th, 2012 @ 9:43 pm By: John Murphy

I was so sadden to hear my dear Uncle Randolph had passed. I am sending my condolences to his immediate family (my Aunt & Cousins). I can say I do understand your pain and although it doesn't just go away, it does get better. Keep you head up and be strong. God will see you through this time of bereavement. God Bless!!!

Commented: Thursday, March 15th, 2012 @ 12:00 am By: Sherri Canady Clayton

The problem with calculating any degree of productivity is the ability, or lack thereof, to establish measures. Without metrics it is not possible to benchmark performance. The benchmark is the point of departure used for comparison purposes.

Productivity looks at both the burn rate or use of consumable resources, like time, and the cost of the studied performance.

I propose that productivity should not be the primary goal for the service sector, which unhappily today includes public education. As much as I agree the loss of productivity is more dearly felt when we are talking about the education of our precious children, the lack of productivity is not the factor that needs to alarm us. No, the measure of perfomance when it comes to educating should be the value of the education over the cost.

Whether the topic is argiculture or the service sector, value determines if the result is worth the cost. No matter what the cost, if our children are not being enabled to become self-sufficent citizens capable of critical thinking with an appreciation for how the real world works, it is our job to stop it and replace it immediately with education that delivers true value regardless of the productivity.

Commented: Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 @ 5:25 pm By: Mattie Lawson

What a wonderfully written piece! Will certainly go back and read your previous articles on this tragedy. It has always frustrated me of the hypocrisy when folks push for abortion but also support the ability of the State to prosecute the murderer of a pregnant woman with two murders. Again, thank you.

Commented: Friday, March 2nd, 2012 @ 10:36 pm By: John Taylor

It does always seem to work out that way.

In Beaufort County, there is burgeoning industry dedicated to the pofits of the special interests - benefactors: scrupulous politicians and good ole, very connected, boys.

And who pays? The taxpayer does ... silly.

Commented: Sunday, February 26th, 2012 @ 9:40 pm By: Wyatt Sanderman Day

RICKS THE ONE

Commented: Sunday, February 26th, 2012 @ 7:33 am By: Rick Gagliano

I certainly agree! I would think anyone who changed parties just to get elected would be too embarrassed to show up in public, let alone do stump speeches! Where is any sense of integrity? Who is supporting these chameleons?

As I understand it a full one third of voters know nothing about the candidates when they go to the polls. They just like the names and select them at random. So sad. It cancels out the votes of knowledgeable voters who took the time to study the candidates and maybe even contribute toward one or more. These voters are almost as arrogant as those who run for office under the pretense of being the kind of person they claim to be. Our Founding Fathers would have shunned such a politician – and such a voter.

Thanks for the article. It is timely.

I've been a Republican for over 35 years! I'm a TEA Party Conservative. Check my voting record. I have nothing to hide

Commented: Monday, February 20th, 2012 @ 3:16 pm By: Mattie Lawson