The Self-Parody of Franklin Graham I have a church history. I sat in a hard wooden pew three times a week from the age of 12 until I went off to college at 18 (and found per...

The preacherman has boxed himself in.
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We used to think we were living in "Idiocracy." The actual truth is much more dangerous and not nearly as funny.

His only defense.

Syndrome Rules A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. --Donald J. Trum...

Our president has become a cartoon super-villain.
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We keep thinking there's a bottom to him.

Congressman Lists Addresses Where He Hopes Protesters Won't Show Up. Oops Photo 828NewsNOW     Last November, Progressive activist Leslie Boyd of Asheville called for a boycott of Congressman Chuck Edwards's McDo...

"This is freaking hilarious."
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Disturbing report about dead-end graduate degrees.
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So Alito's birth was just a coincidence. I'm not buying it.

The Man Who Shut Down Early Voting at Western Carolina Bill Thompson, presiding     Bill Thompson, the new Republican chair of the Jackson County Board of Elections, has managed to establish an...

The chair of the Jackson Co BOE has earned quite the reputation. He's been in office barely a year.
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Cornyn Shoots the Moon in Texas Holy mackerel! I just saw this commercial attacking Ken Paxton, paid for by a proud Senator John Cornyn. Talk about a frontal assault! Tha...

Sen. Cornyn drops the moral bomb on Ken Paxton in Texas Republican primary runoff.
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Let Us Sit Upon the Ground and Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Kings Politicians abhor a vacuum as much as nature does, and the sudden concession of NC Senate President Phil Berger late yesterday afternoon h...

The King is dead. Let the unholy winds fill the vacuum.
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Kings of Gambling Mean To Own North Carolina The gambling industry has a two-prong strategy for taking North Carolina: First, the push stage-managed by the Phil Berger clan to put a...

Boy, the gambling industry really REALLY wants on the inside of government in NC.
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Splitsville in the Democratic Party? Wesley Knott     The dyspepsia in the Democratic Party is generational. I see the rising tide of younger, sharper, more confrontational ca...

I'm on Chair Wesley Knott's side in the Wake Dems Party dispute.
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Keeping Up With the Slow Death of Titan I always learn stuff from Bryan Anderson's reporting , like the basic statutory process for recounting votes in the Berger/Page upset ele...

Berger, writhing in the vise of an upset election.
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Ain't No Simple Thing To Steal an Election BREAKING NEWS from Laura Leslie :  North Carolina Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) has called for a recount in his District 26 pr...

No simple thang -- to steal an election.
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What Would Mark Twain Say about Donald Jethro Trump? I've been reading and savoring Ron Chernow's new and massive biography of Mark Twain. The book's so fat and heavy it's made reading in bed...

What would Mark Twain say about Donald Jethro Trump?
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The Interesting Political Climate of 2026 The closeness of the Phil Berger/Sam Page race is a reminder that, even in an era of nationalized politics, state legislative primaries ca...

A different lesson about Phil Berger's loss: The rural MAGA base may be embarrassed by Trump
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The Cowboy Calf-Ropes the Leader of the Pack Sam Page, March 3, 2026. Photo Bryan Anderson     That sharp tack Jeffrey Billman, the best investigative reporter in the state IMO, has j...

Jeffrey Billman's primer on the threads of Phil Berger's defeat is must reading.
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Primarily (Dragging My Ass) Keith Kidwell     My excuse for not being johnny-on-the-spot about what just happened in North Carolina and then Texas yesterday -- I coul...

That NC primary just made me happy and hopeful.
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Holy crap!

Ah, yes! It had to be "liberal elites," like Pam Fucking Bondi that "lost" those files.

Trump and Facebook, Sitting in a Tree I've been reading an insider's book about the peculiar brand of selfishness and narcissism at Facebook -- Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandb...

Insider insights on the Trump-Facebook collaboration in the elections of 2016.
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You know who's violent deaths WON'T be mentioned in Trump's long, rambling SoTU speech?

Keith Porter, Ruben Ray Martinez, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.

Trump is bragging about working to eliminate fraud. Most of his presidential pardons have been for people convicted of money laundering and fraud to the tune of over $1 billion.

DCCC Involves Itself in a North Carolina Primary Jamie Ager Photo Katie Linsky Shaw On February 23rd (yesterday!) the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) added Jamie Ager and...

National Democrats put their thumb on the scale in NC-11. Hope it works out.
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We Need To Think of Impeachments as Room Fresheners "The first Attorney General to go to prison [John N. Mitchell] did so because he convinced himself that the ends justified the means and t...

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Joey Osborne Goes Foxx-Hunting I've paid little attention to Congresswoman Virginia Foxx's primary opponents. She always has 'em. She always beats 'em. They're like the ma...

One of Virginia Foxx's primary opponents offers an antidote to trumpism.
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The Berger/Page Meet-Up I found the time to watch the Phil Berger vs. Sam Page "town hall ." The event was hosted by the Rockingham Co. Republican Party on Feb. 5...

The clown show at eight.
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Josh Stein Still Fighting for Control of SBOE. Bless Him! Dallas Woodhouse Gov. Josh Stein is suing the GOP-controlled General Assembly over its last-minute seizure of the State Board of Elections...

God Bless Gov. Stein for continuing to fight to reverse a corrupt power grab.
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Hubbard and Creekmore Face Off in an Appstate Town Hall Jack Yordy , guest-posting: On Thursday, I attended an event hosted by the College Democrats of Appalachian State University with special ...

AppState's Jack Yordy reports on the Hubbard/Creekmore town hall.
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