I’ve put off writing about the 2024 elections as long as I can, but with the “Super Tuesday” Primary election in 14 states a month away, we need to check in.
Published: Thursday, March 21st, 2024 @ 12:15 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign he asked the voters one question: Are you better off today than you were four years ago? It’s worth asking now.
Published: Monday, November 27th, 2023 @ 10:11 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Lincoln said you can fool some of the people all of the time, the only explanation I can offer for why Trump and Biden are tied at 43 percent in the New York Times presidential poll released Tuesday.
Published: Wednesday, September 13th, 2023 @ 9:40 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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I can understand those who say they would rather “push a Ford than drive a Chevy.” And it is acceptable that some prefer Coke to Pepsi. There’s even space for those misguided souls who would rather have a Big Mac than a Whopper. Those are personal preferences and subject to personal opinion.
Published: Saturday, October 1st, 2022 @ 9:47 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The North Carolina Supreme Court has opened Pandora’s box with their 4-3 decision on Voter ID. In Greek mythology Pandora’s curiosity led her to open a container entrusted to her husband, unleashing what we today call “a can of worms.”
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2022 @ 8:46 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In the game of chess, the pawn is the lowliest piece in the game. In life, a pawn is a person used by others for their own purposes.
Published: Tuesday, October 26th, 2021 @ 9:56 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was suspended again by Twitter on Monday night after she tweeted material about COVID-19 that the big tech giant claims is in violation of their “misleading policy.”
Published: Friday, July 23rd, 2021 @ 2:15 pm
By: LifeZette
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History has a way of coming around again.
Published: Sunday, January 17th, 2021 @ 11:35 am
By: LifeZette
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Editors at the Washington Examiner explore the impact of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Democrats’ presidential campaign.
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2020 @ 7:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) began its “fierce revenge” for the killing of its notorious general, Qassem Soleimani, by launching over a dozen ballistic missiles Tuesday at two military bases in Iraq where U.S troops are stationed.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2020 @ 9:18 am
By: Daily Wire
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If you read my column, or anyone else's work, because you already expect to agree with the opinions expressed and want to feel reaffirmed, I get it. If you agree and hope you'll gain more "rhetorical ammunition" with which to argue your case, I get that even more
Published: Wednesday, June 27th, 2018 @ 10:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One is a useful law enforcement tool, the other is an over simplification not necessarily based on reality.
Published: Tuesday, March 20th, 2018 @ 1:46 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Donald Trump is the sun of the contemporary American political system
Published: Friday, February 2nd, 2018 @ 4:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you have spent any time on Beaufort County NOW, you possibly have noticed that I, Stan Deatherage your humble reporter, have written extensively about Advocacy Journalism, coined by me as the Democrat Media.
Published: Wednesday, January 17th, 2018 @ 8:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mitt Romney may run for his seat in Utah. Oh my God, what will we do now? Will Mitt and the President get along? Will Mitt be another John McCain who looks for opportunities to stick it in the face of Donald Trump because of something he said about him during the campaign?
Published: Thursday, January 11th, 2018 @ 12:26 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Consequently, the Democrats in the United States Senate effect the Nuclear Option.
Published: Thursday, June 8th, 2017 @ 6:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The inarticulate, bombastic and often politically incorrect President-elect Trump is slowly on growing me.
Published: Friday, February 10th, 2017 @ 11:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Most of the news media is obsessing over the Tweets and Sean Spicer, the White House press Secretary's assertion that more people saw the Inauguration than ever before. The argument is a tempest in a teapot based on pictures and ad hoc observations vs Spicer's assertion using numbers of online view
Published: Saturday, January 28th, 2017 @ 2:18 am
By: Bobby Tony
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This point came to me from my Son-In-Law and he makes a great point...
Published: Saturday, December 17th, 2016 @ 11:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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We will be dissecting Tuesday's elections for months to come but there are some immediate takeaways from the outcomes. With three notable exceptions it was a great year for Republicans in North Carolina
Published: Sunday, November 13th, 2016 @ 3:31 am
By: Tom Campbell
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I hardly ever listen to talk radio anymore because I do not spend that much time in the auto as I did when I was working for living. Nevertheless, yesterday I had to spend about an hour in the car and the only thing on the radios, AM or FM worth listening to (???) was Rush Limbaugh.
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 @ 10:32 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Let us settle for all time the question whether there is bias in the media.
Published: Sunday, August 21st, 2016 @ 10:24 am
By: Tom Campbell
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If you've lived on this planet more than 20 years you've experienced constant changes. We constantly hear that the only thing that remains the same is change and nowhere is that change more evident than in the world of media.
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2016 @ 5:01 am
By: Tom Campbell
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If there is one conclusion to be reached from this year's reality TV presidential circus it's that we must change the way we select nominees.
Published: Saturday, April 2nd, 2016 @ 6:05 am
By: Tom Campbell
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When WRAL reported on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to throw out North Carolina's congressional maps barely a month ahead of the 2016 Primary, the station's "journalists" turned to their friends in three different organizations belonging to Blueprint NC (the "eviscerate"* group)...
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 3:20 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Someone asked me what I thought about the Presidential candidates still in the race and who I support.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 9:56 pm
By: Rod Eccles
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One of my favorite Professors at Southeastern Seminary was Dr. John Carlton. He was from Texas and a bachelor. His family was his students.
Published: Tuesday, February 10th, 2015 @ 8:13 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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One of the hottest academic controversies of the year involves the decision by the University of Illinois to "unhire" Professor Steven Salaita.
Published: Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 @ 8:59 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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I believe once again, I have hit squarely the proverbial nail on the head in regards to today's Democrats.
Published: Sunday, September 29th, 2013 @ 5:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Well, let me begin this, by emphatically stating, that not all Republicans wish to shut down the federal government.
Published: Saturday, September 28th, 2013 @ 12:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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