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The guy with his finger in the dike on this outrageous surveillance state scheme in North Carolina for years was Rep. Keith Kidwell (R-Beaufort). Establishment Republicans, the ones who pander to the special interests kept trying to add language to bring these license plate reader cameras to North Carolina to bills at the last minute, hoping no one would catch it. Kidwell, who read every bill, including last minute revised versions kept catching it and mobilizing the Freedom Caucus for a floor fight to stop it. Those behind the spy cameras then would pull the bill. Finally, those behind the camera scheme noted an excused absence Kidwell had for a family medical appointment and moved. The conservative who was supposed to watch out for such things failed to catch it, and the insertion of the scheme into another bill finally gotten through.

Those who love liberty will miss Rep. Kidwell's presence in the legislature. It is a damn shame that special interests bought this seat away from him in the primary.

Commented: Sunday, July 19th, 2026 @ 9:09 pm By: John Steed

Lock him up! Fauci was pure evil.

Commented: Sunday, July 19th, 2026 @ 2:29 pm By: Bubba

There he goes again! Our own resident Chicken Little is squawking that "the sky is falling". Like the fanatics of his ilk, he takes aspects of the El Nino / La Nina cycle as "manmade climate change." The Chicken Littles of this movement totally ignore that every one of the dire predictions of the mad scientists of the climate cult that have passed the date by which they were supposed to happen, and there have been dozens of those, have NOT happened or even come close. The climate scolds are batting ZERO. With that track record, only a fool would believe anything else they spew.

Even that nutty dingbat Greta Thunberg has shifted gears and is now promoting Hamas terrorism instead of the climate charade, but Bob is still stuck on stupid.

Commented: Sunday, July 19th, 2026 @ 8:28 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

More leftwing political manipulation by Google? Why am I not surprised? No conservative shoudl ever use this socialist company, including their very biased search engine.

Commented: Saturday, July 18th, 2026 @ 4:28 pm By: Rino Hunter

You have it backward on who is being voted out, Little Bobbie. The voters are turning against the CO2 climate cult. It happened this year in the Czech Republic where one of the top issues used by new prime minister Babis was opposition to the EU Green Deal, which he called "Green madness". His junior coalition partner, the new Motorists for Themselves party won seats for the first time with its main issue being opposition to EU climate policies.

Then one needs to look at polling for the next elections across Europe. In the UK, polls have been consistently showing the Reform Party led by Brexit hero Nigel Farage with a wide lead that will give it a substantial majority in the next parliament. One of their key issues is opposition to Labour's Net Zero CO2 policy which they call "Net Stupid". Then there is France, where polls are showing consistently that the National Rally, which opposes EU climate policies with a wide lead for the first round in next year's presidential election and clearly beating anyone who comes in second place in the runoff. In Poland, voters just elected a conservative president who is pushing for a citizen referendum to have Poland reject the EU Green Deal, and polls show three parties of the right -the Law and Justice Party, Confederation Liberty and Independence, and Confederation of the Polish Crown - which oppose EU climate policies with a lock on control of the next parliament. In Germany, the Altenariv fur Deutschland leads in all the national polls, and is on the brink of winning outright control of the two states that vote in September in state elections. AfD opposes EU climate policies.

Or one could look at Australia, where recent polls give the lead to the One Nation Party, which only got 3% in last year's election. One Nation also just won a special election for what had long been a Liberal Party safe seat in the national parliament. This came after One Nation added strident opposition to the Labor government's climate policies to its traditional key issue of opposition to illegal immigration. One Nation has now pulled ahead of Labor as well as of the traditional parties of the right.

On how fighting the climate kooks works in politics, one only has to look at Canada's largest population province, Ontario. Its former Liberal government was all-in on wind and solar, in spite of many citizens and local governments not wanting it in their backyards. The newly minted Conservative leader Doug Ford made opposition to wind and solar the centerpiece of his campaign, and flipped a 2 to 1 Liberal majority to a 10 to 1 Conservative majority on that issue. His new government's first act was to cancel all wind and solar projects that were in the pipeline, and then they repealed the Green Energy Act. Ford has gone on to win two more landslide elections since.

The globalists have been trying to politicize the natural multi-century climate cycles that Earth has gone through since it has existed. The last natural warm cycle, the Medieval Warm Period was a time of prosperity, not disaster, and this current natural warm cycle will be as well.

Commented: Saturday, July 18th, 2026 @ 1:02 pm By: John Steed

Don't expect to change any minds on this chat board. I just want the satisfaction of watching the expression on your faces as human existence on planet earth is pushed to the brink. We are almost there.
The sooner MAGA gets voted out, the better. A few more degrees, a lot less fresh water and tons of wildfire smoke will get it done.
Cheers

Commented: Friday, July 17th, 2026 @ 7:34 pm By: big Bob

Formidable article Ray. Thank-you for bringing your wisdom to the public square.

Commented: Friday, July 17th, 2026 @ 10:36 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Didn't you get the memo, Bob? Even that nutty Greta Thunberg has moved on. First it was globalist money man Bill Gates, long a promoter and funder of the climate charade who publishing a 17 page memo backing off the "climate doomer" bandwagon. Then others started dropping by the wayside. Most recently the UN's International Panel on Climate Change revised their chart of temperature predictions. The three highest lines were the ones they kept pointing to in the past as the most likely scenario for their Chicken Little prophecies. Now they have totally deleted the top two and admitted the next one is just academic and not likely to happen. I guess that after years when every time one of their predictions came to the time it was supposed to happen and none of them ever did, their credibility with people who can think for themselves was in the toilet.

Commented: Friday, July 17th, 2026 @ 4:34 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Look, I get it. Most of you are terrified of the power going off and the A/C shutting down but going all in on fossil fuels is a short-term fix.

1/3 of the country has an AQI over 300. Again. The American SW is becoming unlivable due to heat and lack of water.

We will make it through, but our kids and grandkids are gonna hate us.
Stay cool

Commented: Friday, July 17th, 2026 @ 11:09 am By: big Bob

Doing this on the Senate floor the same day of Trump's speech showed what a vicious leftwinger Tillis is. His pushing the Democrat party line will hurt Republicans in North Carolina at the polls. In particular, I feel sorry for Tillis' protege, US Senate nominee Michael Whatley, who is most vulnerable to damage from Tillis' actions. To be fair, there is a major difference between Tillis and Whatley, in that while Tillis is a Trump hater, Whatley has a close relationship with Trump. That means that as long as Trump is in office, and possibly Vance, Whatley is not likely to stray from the party line on issues where the president has taken a position. That is a big improvement over Tillis. However, I am concerned that many average voters will not comprehend this. In his campaign, Whatley needs to put as much daylight as he can between himself and Tillis. If he fails to do that, it may doom his chances

Commented: Friday, July 17th, 2026 @ 10:27 am By: Conservative Voter

Lock him up! Put Jack-ass Smith in an orange jump suit!

Commented: Thursday, July 16th, 2026 @ 9:17 pm By: Bubba