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No about Iran; that is why they have gone to the streets to protest and many have died trying to deserve a modicum of freedom.

Yes, I would name name myself and Hood for being good, decent, honest, and very competent politicians, but we can NOT do it all by ourselves; nor can those other good politicians in local government, and don't you and others in the electorate ever stop to ask yourselves why we, and others have had so little help over the years in limiting the scope of government, and ending corruption.

Obviously, they like that form of government, or they would stop electing those politician who, conversely, are not good, decent, honest, and very competent politicians.

This is not only a problem on Beaufort County's Board of County Commissioners, but a problem with every governing body in Beaufort County ... So tell me where I am wrong to well understand that the electorate is responsible for their government.

Commented: Saturday, September 5th, 2026 @ 12:39 am By: Stan Deatherage

JV: I know a grand group of wise of military officers, all retired, that believe what is occurring now in the Persian sector of the Middle East is brilliant regarding the changing the paradigm of Foreign Affairs, ultimately making Americans far more safer at home and abroad.

I don't want my children or grandchildren living in a world where the world's greatest terrorists of our age possess nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles.

Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 9:39 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Washingtonian: I have and will continue to do everything I can locally to make government more effective; even getting rid of Limited Voting, which is currently constitutional; however, I am just one Conservative always in search of 3 more ...

But Washingtonian, blaming all good elected leaders, along with the bad, will always help to promote an ignorant electorate, and we just cannot afford that in this Representative Republic, not in these desperate times, because ultimately: The People always get the government they deserve in this Constitutional Republic. It is that simple.

Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 9:29 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Okay, lets look at what the polls say voters are concerned about. One is crime, and here the GOP has a big advantage. Democrats, including Roy Cooper have a record of being soft on crime, while President Trump has delivered on reducing crime. Illegal immigration is also a big concern, and again Republicans have delivered while Democrats just make the situation worse. Illegal immigration also raises the cost of living in many areas including housing, health care, and insurance.

Inflation is a big issue, and this started galloping out of control under Biden. To really get a handle on this, we need to cut deficit spending, which is a major driver of inflation. A majority of Republicans favor such cuts while almost all Democrats oppose them.

Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 7:44 pm By: Rino Hunter

Bob is simply a supporter of the globalists. He touches all the globalist bases. He supports the globalist open borders agenda. He supports the globalist climate agenda. He supports the globalist "woke" agenda such as radical gender ideology. Globalism is at its heart a totalitarian ideology that advocates rule by the elite. But Bob is not one of those elite, as he does not get an invitation to Davos, just one of the useful idiots of that movement.

It is also curious that he follows the lead of the globalist media in throwing around the term "extremist". To the globalist media, there is no such thing as an extremist on the left, but if you are even slightly to the right, then in their spiel, you are one. A good example is to look at German politics. To the globalist media the Left Party, which is the old East German Communist Party with a new name, is never called "extreme". Neither are the far left nutters of the Green Party. on On the other hand they constant use that label for the Alternativ fur Deutschland, whose positions on issues are essentially the same as the pre-Merkel Christian Democrats. There is little difference between the policies of the founder of the Christian Democrats, the great postwar German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and those of current AfD leader Alice Weidel. The same is true in the UK, where they fail to call the nutters of the Green Party extreme but apply that label to Nigel Farage and the Reform Party, even though Farage has essentially the same positions on issues as Sir Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher.

"Extremist" is a favorite buzzword of the globalists and Bob paints himself as one by throwing it around like he does.

Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 4:06 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Yeah, Bob, your point here is always that you are this site's resident extremist.

Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 3:37 pm By: Bubba

I think we have arrived at a "Wag The Dog" scenario here, involving Iran and Israel. President Trump and his administration are trying to sell this war to the public and folks ain't buying it. Taking a page out of Dubya's playbook, rattling on about "weapons of mass destruction", isn't a smart move.

I've often wondered if President Trump is actually playing games with Israel, over Iran, to show how NATO does nothing to Netanyahu but burns everyone else at the stake. Remember, many countries have called for Netanyahu and his minions to be tried in International court for crimes against humanity over several instances.

Israel was also one of the most heavily jabbed countries in the world during COVIDpalooza....biological/chemical warfare on the general public.

Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 1:32 pm By: John Valley

Voting by mail increases participation and is proven safe and secure.
Trump votes by mail.

Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 1:05 pm By: big Bob

What Big Bob considers extremism was, and is a facet of what it means to be a true patriot, which the vast majority of Democratic Socialists are not, including all of their recent presidents, and failed contenders for that office.

Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 8:57 am By: Stan Deatherage

As a voting system prone to misuse, voting by mail should only be allowed in limited cases, such as where a person is going to be out of town on election day (and during early voting) or unable to get to the polling place. That account of the mail ballots at the nursing home in Saxony-Anhalt is a very good example of how voting by mail can be abused.

When I worked in eastern Europe, a number of countries in that area did not allow any voting by mail. For voters physically unable to get to the polling station, they had an interesting practice of the "mobile ballot box". A person who could not get to the polls notified the election officials during the morning of election day, and in the mid afternoon, a team of election officials, along with election observers got in a car and drove a small ballot box and a stack of ballots around to all the people who had requested the mobile ballot box.

For voters who were abroad, every embassy opened a polling station for citizens to come vote. In countries with a lot of expats or large size, they also opened scattered polling stations at other sites. In recent Romanian elections, they have had the closest polling station located in Norfolk, Virginia. Recent Moldovan elections have had one polling place in North Carolina, which has moved from Raleigh to Hickory to Asheville. These extra polling stations have been organized by the embassy in cooperation with the country's central election commission.

Voting by mail should be available but only for those with a good reason to vote that way. The reason is making election fraud more difficult.

Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 7:02 pm By: Steven P. Rader

It is easy to see the extremism on the left - the DSA, ANTIFA, BLM, etc. On the other hand, it recently came out that the extremists on the right, the KKK, National Socialists, white supremists, etc. all seem to be funded by the far left Southern Poverty Law Center, which is now under indictment for money laundering in that operation.

Bob, you have outed yourself on these boards repeatedly as an extremist but now you try to posture that you are not one? That is really rich.

Mainstream liberalism or mainstream conservatism is NOT extremism. The DSA, on the other hand, according to a respected liberal Democrat US Senator is "deeply anti-American."

Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 4:01 pm By: Conservative Voter

Roy Cooper was a budding socialist before socialism was cool. North Carolina does not need that wanker in the Senate. I wish we had a stronger candidate for the GOP, but Michael Whatley will have to do. He is the only game in town now to stop Comrade Cooper.

Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 3:40 pm By: John Steed