Raising Cain in GOP race for WH
The “conventional wisdom” in the GOP presidential race is that Georgia businessman Herman Cain is an “also-ran” who has no chance at the nomination or — for that matter
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Perry and barbecue: cutting through all of the smoke
Rob Christensen and the lads and lassies in the N&O newsroom ought to take Fox News president Roger Ailes’s recent assessment of Texas governor Rick Perry to heart: “If he
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No profiles in courage for NCGOP in DC
North Carolina’s Republican Members of Congress have proved — once again — that keeping Speaker John Boehner happy is more important than looking out for the folks struggling through
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Gov Bev OK with gay day in May?
In his ill-advised visit to UNC-Chapel Hill law school to defend the state legislature’s approval of a May referendum on a gay marriage prohibition amendment for the state constitution,
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One MOORE entrant for the state senate GOP primary?
Stuff keeps coming in over the transom about the state senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Harris Blake of Pinehurst. Recent redistricting moved Blake and Moore
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Pinehurst’s Cummings to pursue state Senate seat?
My spies within Raleigh political circles, and on the ground here in Moore County and throughout the Sandhills region, tell me retired physician Robin Cummings of Pinehurst is seriously eyeing
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Leftists demand a free lunch
We’ve got real good case study going on right now illustrating how disingenuous leftists and their comrades in the alleged Mainstream Media (MSM) can be when they
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If you talk the talk, you better walk the walk
I hate to say it, but I am leaning toward the N&O on this one. During the 2010 campaign, U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-Dunn) attacked her opponent, then-incumbent
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Huh? What? A listening tour?
The campaign silly season is upon us. Politicians are running all over the countryside kissing babies and telling us how bad the other guys are. Thanks to the Tea Party
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The bridges are falling! The bridges are falling!
Barry-O is flitting around the country spinning a yarn about how EXACTLY 153 bridges will fall if Congress doesn’t approve his “American Jobs Act” – which actually hits struggling
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