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Commented on Two Resolutions, Two Most Important Issues whose worth Shall be Determined by Beaufort County's Commissioners.Theresa: North Carolina's congressional Districts may be among the least gerrymandered in all of the United States, and the way one can discern this is to observe NC's congressional districts highly regular shape.
District One keeps Beaufort County intact, in one district. That is a good thing.
Commented: Saturday, August 1st, 2026 @ 8:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Two Resolutions, Two Most Important Issues whose worth Shall be Determined by Beaufort County's Commissioners."Gerrymandered", Theresa? Personally, I am very happy to be back home in the 1st district. As a resident of Washington, I served on the 1st District Republican Executive Committee from 1979 to 2007 when I resigned to take a job overseas. It was only when I returned in 2013 that I found that all of Beaufort County was now in the 3rd District.
All of Beaufort County was in the 1st District for many decades until 1992. Then, the county was split between the 1st and the 3rd from 1992 to 2011. That was a Democrat gerrymander that split many counties in our part of the state. Only since 2011 has Beaufort County been entirely in the 3rd.
Commented: Saturday, August 1st, 2026 @ 8:56 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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Commented on Two Resolutions, Two Most Important Issues whose worth Shall be Determined by Beaufort County's Commissioners.Do you have any comment about Beaufort County being gerrymandered from District 3 to District 1.
Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 8:18 pm
By: Theresa Lowry
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Commented on Queen Garris - Déjà vu “All Over Again”This is a link to what Billy Graham said in the oval office with Nixon about the Zionists. There are MAGA Republicans, today, who would call this "conspiracy theory" or "anti-Semitic" when it is neither; it's fact and it's what's going on right now.
www.youtube.com
Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 6:04 pm
By: John Valley
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Someone, tell me if I've got this right. Several conservatives went on the Beaufort County School Board back in 2022. They persistently worked on becoming more active in curriculum matters by strengthening policy and were joined by two more conservatives in 24 and 25. Long story short, they were led on over time and everything culminated just lately when Mr. Rader brought some prepared proposals and was backed by Mr. Hickman. Supposedly, the two had verbal commitments by the majority in a previous meeting and just needed to prepare and formalize in a future meeting. Last month they did just that and were completely shot down by the Board. I'm told that several members stated that they didn't want any say on curriculum matters and that it should be left to the experts (staff).
So, we've got eight Republicans on this board and only about two or maybe three are conservative?
Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 10:13 pm
By: Van Zant
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Replacing two conservative board members with two ex-teachers who are members of the liberal teachers union will be a disaster on our Board of Education. They will undoubtedly rubberstamp what the education establishment dictates on curriculum. The most active liberals on our school board are nominal "Republicans", Carolyn Walker and T.W. Allen.
Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 9:28 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Commented on Queen Garris - Déjà vu “All Over Again”Wow, JV! You think Switzerland, Sweden, and Norway are threats to the US but Red China is not? China is a totalitarian communist state. The others are all multi-party democracies. China has a massive military force and nuclear weapons, including strategic rocket forces. The three countries have modest military forces, far below those of the US and no nuclear weapons. China has the world's second largest economy and closing in on the size of the US economy, far far more than those three countries you consider threats. Big tech? China is much more heavily into that than any of the other counties you mention. Indeed they are the country we are currently in a close competition with on AI China has massive cyberwarfare capabilities, but none of those three do. Banking? You might want to compare the total amount of funds held in Chinese banks compared with the others. The only one of those that is a big banking center in Switzerland, and after the collapse of Credit Suisse, one of its two longtime leading banks, it is no longer what it once was. You mighjt also want to compare gold holdings of the three countries, and central bank gold purchases in the last two to three years.
Oh, ande Hamas is a subsidiary of Iran, if you haven't figured that out yet.
Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 7:23 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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Commented on Queen Garris - Déjà vu “All Over Again”RH: if you go down the list, I answered your questions; I just didn't give the answers you wanted to hear. You're also missing the points I'm making, a turd is pointed on both ends.
"Red China" isn't what I'm talking about, that is a deflection away from the real culprits no one wants to talk about: Israel and the "neutral" countries who ACTUALLY control banking and big tech. The "Chi-Comms" don't have shit compared to what Switzerland, Sweden, Norway and Israel have. What we know as "Hamas" is more than likely another subsidiary of the CIA, MI6, etc. I don't support Greater Israel and I don't support Hamas, it's all there to support the globalists and the script that they wrote not so long ago. Some Republicans consider the act of questioning Israel to be like that of practicing the Dark Arts or something. They can't see past their own indoctrination. Maybe they need to hear what Brother Billy Graham had to say about this when he was talking with Nixon, back in the day. Link coming
Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 4:19 pm
By: John Valley
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Commented on Nick Fritz Tells Stan Deatherage Why he Resigned ...Nick, What you endured with the attacks on your business and your family by operatives of the political machine that has been running Washington is inexcusable. No one in public life should be subjected to that. Those politicians affiliated with that machine should be run out of politics, and indeed, out of town. Thank you for your service!
Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 4:36 pm
By: The Shadow
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Commented on Queen Garris - Déjà vu “All Over Again”JV, Being a "war hawk" does not make someone "right wing". Prior to War World I, liberal Democrat Woodrow Wilson was the big war hawk trying to get America into Europe's war, while most conservative Republicans wanted to remain neutral. Prior to World War II, it was liberal Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt who was the big war hawk trying to get the US into Europe's war, while up until the Japanese attack on Preal Harbor, most conservative Republicans wanted to stay neutral.
the country that RINO McConnell was in cahoots with was Red China, not Israel. McConnell was the first US politician to cozy up to China after the Tianamen Square repression by taking a friendly trip to Beijing. On that trip, China arranged to create a shipping company for McConnell's wife and her family. China provided the ships, the crews, and the cargoes. McConnell's wife and family got the profits. He was known as "China Mitch" NOT "Jerusalem Mitch". Where was McConnell's wife while he was in the hospital on his recent illness? In China conferring with their vice president, not by her husband's side. And "Grahamnesty"??? Calling that amnesty whore for illegal aliens "far right" is just laughable. You duck the question on whether you are pro-Hanmas. Are you?
Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 3:25 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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Commented on Queen Garris - Déjà vu “All Over Again”RH: Yes, Graham and McConnell were Zionist Neo-Con Warhawks, that shouldn't come as a shock to anyone. That's as far right as you can get. There's no difference between the far left and the far right regardless of what the philosophical society of Hardee's may claim.
As far as Epstein is concerned, the Republicans have done a damn good job of releasing redacted information and dismissing the real shit, found in the Epstein files, as "conspiracy theory". The Democrats covered up the same crap the Republicans are now covering up. In the issue of Israel: Anti-Semite, I certainly am not. Anti-Zionist, I am. I do not support Totalitarian Socialist governments..especially Totalitarian Socialist governments using the Occult (Kabbalah, Talmud, Zohar, etc) to justify their Zionist state government. You do know that the nation-state of Israel was created by the Balfour Accords, signed by the US, Britain and GERMANY,through Rothschild money, in 1917. In 1946-48, the Jewish state's formed.
Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 12:45 pm
By: John Valley
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Commented on Queen Garris - Déjà vu “All Over Again”All I want to add at this moment RH, is that if you/we contact any elected official, and they dont bother to reply...then kick them to the curb. Give someone else your vote. Term limits is a good thing, even for the paid/volunteer bureaucrats who really run the show.
Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 12:50 pm
By: Befuddled
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Commented on Queen Garris - Déjà vu “All Over Again”Yes Jeff, I have often thought about my last name ... An Example: If I had been a Viking, I might have qualified, if only by name, as a berserker junior grade.
And right again on the politics of things, the real Republican party will never welcome all RINOs to quickly turn us into an abomination unto this sel-governed society, a society that needs so much righteous help right NOW.
Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 11:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Thank you for posting this, Jeff. Many of us have known for a long time that Murphy comes far short in trying to measure up to Walter Jones. Murphy's begging for a Freedom Caucus endorsement in his first primary runoff, and then kicking them in the teeth as soon as he got to Washington revealed his character from the beginning. The 3rd district really needs a conservative primary challenger to Murphy. He is an undependable opportunist of the worst order.
Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 11:02 am
By: borderhawk
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Commented on Queen Garris - Déjà vu “All Over Again”Rino Hunter, you are spot on correct about McConnell and Graham. In fact, Lindsey is one of the most prolific traitors in my lifetime. Besides all that you pointed out, war-hawk Graham was the driving force behind the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which codified into law all the unconstitutional measures adopted by Presidents Bush and Obama, which were outside the constraints of the Constitution, and outside the Geneva Conventions, and the internationally recognized laws of war.
That single bill authorized violating no fewer than 14 provisions of the Constitution, including over half of the Bill of Rights. It designated anybody, American citizen or not, as an enemy combatant, declared the whole world as the "battlefield," including the homeland. The rights protected under the Constitution apply to all people under the umbrella protection of the Bill of Rights. The word "citizen" doesn't appear in the Bill of Rights. It simply refers to "person" or "persons," acknowledging the humanity required to recognize that unalienable, God-given Rights apply to all people, not just citizens. Lindsey Graham didn't care about that. He famously said on the floor of the Senate, "...and when they say I want my lawyer, you tell them to shut up, you don't get a lawyer, you're an enemy combatant." For years, that audio clip was the ringtone I set on my phone for my general counsel, as a constant reminder of what traitors are doing under the guise of national security. It's as if the Framers had never warned us about giving up a little liberty for security. He lied and twisted Supreme Court rulings to fit his narrative that they could do whatever it took under the color of law to have their way. A Democrat President signed it into law, but RINO Republicans put it on his desk. I did NOT lower my flag in his honor. He had none. He was a traitor, plain and simple. I'm glad he's no longer a threat. I don't care who it offends. He was the domestic enemy within that Cicero warned us about over 2,000 years ago.
Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 11:01 am
By: Jeff Lewis
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Commented on Queen Garris - Déjà vu “All Over Again”Death or rage. That describes what liars and thieves might encounter messing with Stan. In all seriousness, this cancer has long since metastasized into a life and death struggle for the soul of the party.
My political mentors and sponsors encouraged me to attend the 2008 RNC National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul. I ended up at a campground in a large adult staff cabin in which several conservative delegates were staying. Rep. Ron Paul was a rising star. I had worked with him on issues in Congress, found he had the best constitutional voting record in Congress, and supported his candidacy. Boy, were my eyes opened. On a daily basis I heard stories about RINO double-dealing, backstabbing shenanigans.Ron Paul was receiving death threats, some of which I'm sure came from the RINO crowd. He had his own security, but on the day he was supposed to speak, they would not allow his security detail to enter the convention hall. Petty BS seemed to be the order of the day, every day. Petty RINO BS. By 2012, several GOP state chairs lobbied me and my general counsel to come to the convention in Tampa, to advise them on constitutional and parliamentary procedure issues at the convention. We went. It was the most depressing political event I've ever attended. Everything I'd been told was wrong with the Dems was on full display. My staff and I were in a funk for a month afterwards, as if there had been a death in the family. What we saw and experienced disgusted us all. After swearing off such, that I would never go back, I got sucked into going to Cleveland for the 2016 convention. Same dog and pony. Different city. It cemented why you guys had launched the Beaufort Observer, to provide truth and accuracy to counter the Washington Daily leftist dribble from across the aisle, and the Conservative Republican Club to counter the RINO dribble coming from within your own party. When I wasn't traveling around the country, or to Capitol Hill, and found myself a local group of wonderful people to work with on the issues conservatives actually care about: with you guys. There were times I brought information to you that contradicted what you'd been told by prominent national groups that you should be able to trust, but that were actually part of the RINO control network. I saw the cognitive dissonance on your faces as you tried to reconcile what you thought you knew with what I had shared. I brought receipts. You licked your wounds, and accepted the truth. That was all my mission was about, restoring constitutional governance, and you can't get that or keep that without knowing the truth. Read between the lines. The truth has always, and always will set us free, with God's Grace to recognize it. We have a duty of allegiance and protection the Founders spoke prominently about. Initially, those terms were included in all the state constitutions, including North Carolina's original state constitution. It was the violation of that mutual duty that was the foundation of the Declaration of Independence that provided the righteous indignation necessary for the world to know who the good guys were, who to support. They clarified at the end the DOI how important it was, by pledging their lives, their fortunes, and most importantly, their sacred honor. Nothing has changed in 250 years in that regard, which is why Washington's Farewell Address is as relevant today as when it was written, and why the work of the Conservative Republican Club over the past 20 years, and hopefully the next 20 is so important. As Jefferson said, "eternal vigilance" is the price of freedom. Vain and aspiring men (and women) will forever attempt to hijack and undermine righteous patriots to seize or maintain control. Jefferson also said, "When you find yourself at the end of your rope, tie a knot in it, and hang on." Thanks for hanging on. God Bless America and those that defend Her.
Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 10:32 am
By: Jeff Lewis
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Commented on Queen Garris - Déjà vu “All Over Again”JV, I don't know what you are smoking if you think Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham are "far right". Both of them are notorious sell-out RINOs. McConnell has been a useful idiot for many Democrat presidents, and it is thanks to him that Republicans failed to stop Obamacare that is destroying our health care system. It is why conservative groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund and the Club for Growth dropped a lot of money into trying to beat McConnell in his last primary. Graham may have mellowed in recent years, but was one of the most notorious RINOs in the senate. He pushed amnesty for illegal aliens for years, was part of the pro-amnesty senate Gang of 8, and even acquired the nickname "Grahamnesty". "Light in the Loafers" Lindsay repeatedly had censure motions against him passed by conservatives in the South Carolina Republican Party due to his lefty voting record.
If you think Epstein is an "issue" for the GOP, then you must be under the spell of MSM propaganda media. Polls show most Americans have figured out their bias. Under the Democrats, there was a TOTAL coverup of everything Epstein. So you hate Isreal? Does that mean you are a Hamas fan?
Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 9:44 am
By: Rino Hunter
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Commented on Queen Garris - Déjà vu “All Over Again”Mr. Lewis, I concur..especially with your closing statement. If one would examine things as they are, with bullshit aside, they'd see that Ol' George won't and ain't too far off. Both sides are guilty as hell in this; everybody knows it.
The two biggest things, besides gas/oil prices killing the GOP right now are: Israel and Epstein. Iran takes a middle seat here but is related to what I just mentioned. The Tiny Toons on the left are pushing for 1917 Bolshevik Communism merged with National Socialism but don't side with Israel. The Tiny Toon Mitch McConnell/Aint Lindsay Bizarros on the far right publicly denounce Socialism BUT support Israel and it's totalitarian Socialist state government. I think the GOP is trying to cover it's own ass while, at the same time, attempting to formulate a plan not involving questions about high gas prices, Israel and Epstein. They're running out of exit ramps.
Commented: Thursday, July 30th, 2026 @ 7:22 pm
By: John Valley
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Cyclospora comes from human feces. Yes that means humans are crapping in the field....or... it is an act of terrorism at the packaging facility.
Commented: Thursday, July 30th, 2026 @ 6:19 pm
By: Washingtonian
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Commented on Queen Garris - Déjà vu “All Over Again”Thank-you Van Zant and Jeff Lewis for bringing your real world perspective to Eastern NC NOW.
Here in Beaufort County, the local GOP has lost its political way. Conservative politicians, and elected governmental leaders here Beaufort County, including their self governing constituents, are now paying the political price for the Beaufort County GOP's many missteps in the political purpose of electing anyone ... anyone other than their chosen few favorites.
Commented: Thursday, July 30th, 2026 @ 5:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Many of our health care problems come in from over the border. Illegal aliens, who do not have to have the health screenings of legal immigrants, bring in lots of diseases. So do goods from those areas. The explosive diarrhea came in on Mexican lettuce. Our health care system is overwhelmed by freeloading illegal aliens. We need to beef up deportation to put a stop to this mooching of our health care. Our "shitty health care system" is called Obamacare and it was foisted upon our country by the Democrats. Biden flooding our country will illegal aliens has just made it much worse. Those illegal aliens also drive up our housing costs and a lot of other things.
Commented: Thursday, July 30th, 2026 @ 5:06 pm
By: borderhawk
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I don't think Dr. F will go to jail.
From throwing a sandwich at the ICE officer to the 86-47 written in seashells to the reflecting pool damage caused by a no-bid contract and the all-important transgender issues which effect almost no one, this is all designed to make sure you don't notice the Northern Hemisphere is on fire, measles and explosive diarrhea are raging and after 10 year of MAGA government, we still have a sh!tty health care system, an out-of-control deficit, high prices and another endless war in the middle east. Don't get me started on Medicare and social security. By his own admission, the president earned 2 billion last year and is immune from the IRS. Let those facts sink in. Dr. F is the least of our problems.
Commented: Thursday, July 30th, 2026 @ 3:17 pm
By: big Bob
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It's nice that Rep. Murphy is attempting to cut medical costs. It would be nice if would also keep his word. In February, 2025, I met with Rep.Murphy at his New Bern district office to discuss reintroducing legislation that Walter Jones had introduced in six Congresses, to require the FBI track and report criminal alien crimes.
You can read the most recent introduced version of "Jamiel's Law", named after a murder victim here: www.congress.gov Rep. Murphy said, and I quote, "It would be my honor to reintroduce the bill." In May, 2025, I, along with Jamiel Shaw, Sr, the victim's father, approved the final draft. That was 14 months ago. It never took Walter more than a month to get a bill introduced. Since then, emails go unanswered, visits to his New Bern district office requesting a phone call or update have gone unanswered. All the bill requires is for "nationality" and "legal status" be added to the Uniform Crime Reports already required for all federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. Why Rep. Murphy has not kept his word, and is avoiding me defies logic. At this point, he has wasted 1.5 years, which could have been spent courting other sponsors. If the name Jamiel Shaw sounds familiar, Trump carried Mr. Shaw on his 2016 campaign trail, even giving him a speaking spot at the national convention. Murphy agreed now was the best time to give this bill a real chance of becoming law. The President knows the family personally. Crickets... Your word is your bond. It's the only thing that can't be taken from you. I gave the Jamiel Shaw Family my word that I would never stop trying to get this bill passed, which were it law already, could have saved Laken Riley, and hundreds of other families from having their child executed in the street by an MS-13 gang banger illegal alien, who had been released from L.A. County Jail on a gun charge, and assaulting an officer. When queried by a researcher trying to find real numbers on illegal alien crime, he eventually found it would be the FBI's responsibility. In 2007, they responded via email that the reason they don't is because, "Congress hasn't told us to." They were right. The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) doesn't require "nationality" or "legal status" on the monthly reports to the FBI on felony criminal arrests. "Jamiel's Law" would fix that, and would withhold federal funds to any law enforcement agency that refuses to work with DHS/ICE to establish "nationality" and "legal status." Congressman Murphy was in total agreement with me, gave his word, invoking his "honor." I believed him then. I don't now. If you know him, ask him why I've become persona non-grata, ask him why he hasn't kept his word. Ask him to give me a call. He has my number. I can forgive and forget. I believe in redemption. After this Congress ends, he will no longer by Congressman because of redistricting. If you'll be in the 3rd District, you might consider someone whose word means something. - Jeff Lewis, National Director, Patriot Coalition.
Commented: Thursday, July 30th, 2026 @ 3:21 pm
By: Jeff Lewis
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