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• "Trump's $50B rural health bet meets a HEALTHCARE DESERT in North Carolina (northcarolinahealthn ews.org) — Greenville's ECU Health Medical Center is straining under surging ER demand as nearby Martin County's hospital closure forces more rural patients into the city's only Level 1 trauma center east of Raleigh. Local leaders and ECU Health executives are lobbying for funding, but say Trump's new $50 billion rural health program won't reopen Martin General or quickly ease Greenville's long ER wait times."
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Why would any thinking human choose to relocate to a Regional HEALTHCARE DESERT such as we have here locally? Is the plan to eliminate most humans in coastal NC? Let us die off for lack of medical care, and tax to death the rest of the humans here.

Commented: Monday, June 1st, 2026 @ 11:34 am By: Washingtonian

Randy Walker is a full pledged RINO and full blown liberal, as is his wife on the school board. No question about that, but when it comes to the Senate race, Roy Cooper is just so awful that one has to hold their nose for Whatley. Yeah, Whatley was a bad NCGOP chairman. Yeah, Whatley is closer to Tillis than we would like, but Whatley at least has enough of a political debt to Trump that I cannot see him going against Trump during the next two years, and that is a very critical time period. Don Brown would have been a MUCH better nominee to beat Cooper, but he lost. I hope Don will be running for Attorney General in 2028, but we are stuck with either Whatley or Cooper for Senate in 2026, and Whatley is the lesser of the evils. I very much dislike a "lesser of the evils" choice, but Cooper is so bad, there is just no other viable option this time.

Commented: Monday, June 1st, 2026 @ 6:33 am By: Rino Hunter

I missed the "Meet and Greet" since I was out of town with only a 24 hour advanced notification.

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2026 @ 8:39 pm By: Stan Deatherage

It looks like the extreme left hates historic and national flags everywhere. Here they diss many Revolutionary War flags including the Gadsden flag, the 13 star Betsy Ross flag, and others, and historic Confederate flags. They even burn the current American flag. In the UK, they diss the Union Jack and the St. Andrews Cross flag of England. In Canada, it is their Red Ensign. Yet they want to shove things like their "pride flag" is our faces or wave foregin flags at their riots for illegal aliens.

If these anti-democratic thugs get their way, it may soon be illegal to display the longtime national flag of Canada, and at the same time illegal to object to the obnoxious "pride flag". How long until they declare Canada a "people republic"?

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2026 @ 12:12 pm By: Conservative Voter

AI has no place in the Arts, it has no soul and removes the human element from the equation. Imperfections and "mistakes" make music/art special. I can't tell you how many legendary riffs have come from f-ups and producers deciding to "keep it on the tape".

I agree that AI, with strict oversight, can be used for the purposes of good BUT if unregulated, you'll see why and how places like Atlantis fell from grace.

B&N hasn't been worth a crap for almost 20 years. They are a footnote of American Culture now. We used to meet girls there, get our music magazines and graphic novels.....but those times have long since passed.

Commented: Saturday, May 30th, 2026 @ 4:57 pm By: John Valley

Anti-immigration parties now lead in the polls in Austria, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, and France, as well as leading the current governments of Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Belgium. It will still be a near run thing to reverse the takeover of Europe by Third World migrants.

Commented: Friday, May 29th, 2026 @ 10:21 am By: borderhawk

And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?

And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.

But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.

He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.

But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

Commented: Thursday, May 28th, 2026 @ 8:56 pm By: Will Simmons

Cool beans brother thanks for the interpretation

Commented: Wednesday, May 27th, 2026 @ 12:20 pm By: Will Simmons

While the far left likes to throw around the term "fascist", none of them seem to understand that fascism had a rigid economic doctrine, and today's left very often follows fascist rather than socialist economic doctrine. The climate alarmist movement is one particular example of that, and I have seen some aptly call it "eco-fascism".

Government putting its thumb on the scales is the opposite of capitalism. Government Diktat is the only thing that makes the Climate Industrial Complex function. It could not stand on its own two feet to compete under a free enterprise system.

You might want to learn more about what fascism really is before thinking that it just means having a dictator in charge. If you do, you will learn that the modern left's policies here in America are much closer to classical fascist economic doctrine than to classic socialist economic doctrine.

Will, neither you nor I are far left, but it is the far left that likes to throw around the term "fascist" without understanding what it actually means.

Commented: Wednesday, May 27th, 2026 @ 7:43 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Well, NO, Will. The Green New Deal just reeks of fascist economics, NOT capitalism. It is all about government Diktat. Wind, solar, and other "green energy" would not exist without government subsidies, "portfolio standard" requirements of percentage of "green energy", and such. They are essential for expensive intermittent, unreliable "green energy".

The reason it is called "green energy" is all the green taxpayer and ratepayer money flowing into the pockets of the Climate Industrial Complex.

One has to understand the difference between socialist economics and fascist economics. In socialism, government controls the means of production. In fascist economics, the means of production technically stay in private hands but totally under government control.

Commented: Tuesday, May 26th, 2026 @ 8:45 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Well Stan, IMHO there is Art and then there is entertainment.
I think A.I can entertain as well as any human.
Perhaps, going forward we can define Art as something created by humans, otherwise, its entertainment.

Commented: Tuesday, May 26th, 2026 @ 11:35 am By: Washingtonian

Democrats have always wanted illegal aliens to vote because they almost all vote for the Democrats when they do. Virginia Governor Spamberger even tried to ban ICE from polling places because she know they would find illegal aliens there voting for Democrats. This country is so screwed, probably permanently, if the Democrats get back in power.

Commented: Tuesday, May 26th, 2026 @ 12:52 pm By: borderhawk