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This French poll that follows the trend of so many other polls in Europe, shows what a huge issue illegal immigration is in Europe, just as it is in America.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 1:56 pm
By: borderhawk
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It tells the tale if you look at support among GOP elected officials. Amazingly both Kidwell and Richardson are on the same side on this one, for Speciale. They are both conservatives but often with a different take on things. Kidwell is doing radio ads for Speciale. Former Senator Bill Cook just did a fundraiser for Speciale.
Only "trans-partisan" county commissioner Frankie Waters, who contributed to a Democrat legislator while on the ballot as a "Republican" and who caucuses with both of the Democrats on the county commission is backing Brinson. Waters was also the commissioner who bragged in the last election about raising taxes three of the eight years he had been a commissioner. That fits well with Brison tax increase record in New Bern. Brinson also has the support of two Lenoir County legislators, liberal Senator Jim Perry. Brinson keeps telling us he is so much more conservative than Perry, but then why is Perry such a major supporter of Brinson? That just doesn't smell right. The other big Brinson supporter in Lenoir County is a former State Representative who was a big liberal in Raleigh and then spent prison time for corruption. When Brinson fails to repudiate this dishonest smear campaign, the slime covers him, too, and reflects on his lack of integrity. But I guess he is just afraid to cross Boss Berger. That is not what we need in Raleigh.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 1:44 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Commented on Senator J.D. Vance explains how Senate RINOs pulled a fast one to take down President TrumpThom.Tillus you are our senator and we (3 of us) voted for you and will NOT vote for you again. This piece of legislation is NOTHING but garbage AGAINST We, the PEOPLE!! If you continue to support this outrageous piece of legislation, we will actively work against your re-election. Start working for the voters of NORTH CAROLINA!!
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 12:22 pm
By: Peggy
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Those issues were dealt with in the mid 1960s, Bob. You are history challenged again. Those things were gone where I lived in North Carolina when I was in high school in the late 1960s and college in the early 1970s. During that period, minorities not only had equal rights, they also had affirmative action. You apparently mis-remember things to try to push your race-based agenda.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 11:54 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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Lord Acton writes to Bishop Creighton that the same moral standards should be applied to all men, political and religious leaders included, especially since “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” (1887)
In “Animal Farm” we find that some pigs are more equal than others. It seems that Power makes men blind to morality more than money. Many seem to start out with the right attitude in Raleigh and then quickly get inoculated with this blind push for power. This seems to be the case with Burger and Moore. We know what we are getting with Speciale. He proved his position and staying power with 4 terms in the House. On leaving he was called, “The conscience of the House”. Hardly something we could tag Tim Moore, Phil Burger, or Bob Brinson with.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 11:16 am
By: Buzz Cayton
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The worst part of this smear is that Berger knew it was a lie when he put it out. I remember talking to another legislator right after WRAL's hit piece. This was widely discussed in the legislature at the time about how this was being distorted by a very biased media outlet and turned on its head. Speciale's attempt to improve the bill by making it more enforcible was presented as being opposed to the bill and hating dogs. It was a red flag to legislators to be careful that they avoid saying things in a way that could be taken out of context by a hostile media. This was so widely discussed, that Berger certainly knew the truth but chose to lie instead because it suits his political purpose.
It is also interesting that Steinburg coorperated with the hit on Speciale, but one has to consider the context there. Steinberg was a huge supporter of wind and solar energy and the Greta Thunberg agenda generally, and is now even a paid lobbyist for wind and solar. Speciale was a staunch opponent of subsidies and mandates for wind and solar, and one of his successes for conservatives was forcing the removal of all state tax subsidies to wind and solar from the budget. Steinberg and Speciale were at loggerheads on an issue that was important to Steinburg and he used the opportunity to take a cheap shot. One of the huge differences between Speciale and Brinson is that while Speciale voted repeatedly to reduce taxes in the legislature and never to increase them, Brinson in his partial term on the New Bern city council has already voted to RAISE taxes. Stan, There may not be a party far enough to the left for Little Bobbie currently on the ballot in NC, so he may be unaffiliated. That would allow him to take a GOP ballot. That is a good argument for closing the GOP primary to real only registered Republicans. Why should Republican haters be allowed to vote in Republican primaries?
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 11:29 am
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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Commented on Senator J.D. Vance explains how Senate RINOs pulled a fast one to take down President TrumpDJT only looks out for himself.
MAGA makes a lot of noise, but can't govern.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 10:15 am
By: Big Bob
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Skylite BBQ wouldn't allow blacks in to the 70s. They weren't the only ones, so just stop. You were there. So was I.
Anytime blacks wanted equal rights you and others like you cried socialism.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 10:19 am
By: Big Bob
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Bob, you seem really challenged when it comes to history. The lunch counter stuff was in the early 1960s, and I have had the opportunity to meet one of the leaders of the sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro. He is now a Republican activist and I have met him at a number of GOP meetings including one Beaufort County Republican convention, where he was appearing for the Frederick Douglas Foundation, a black Republican organization.
No, in 1971, the social gospel stuff was mostly welfare state promotion. Some of us in our Methodist Youth group, which was where I first encountered it, called it "socialIST gospel" in those days. Further, religion is not inherently political, although it is a target for takeover by the left, and social gospel is one of their means to try to do so.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 9:31 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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Christianity is a liberal religion. it certainly has more in common with liberal ideology and conservative ideology.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 9:11 am
By: Big Bob
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Never make assumptions. It explains why you think trump won.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 9:05 am
By: Big Bob
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Actively being "part of a vocal minority" that pushed the liberal position seems to me to be more than being "caught up in this controversy". However, we have freedom of religion in this country and people are free to dress up just about anything as a religion. However the conflict arises when politicians campaign for the liberal position one place and then proclaim how conservative they are during their political campaigns. That does not pass the smell test.
Among a number of the national church bodies, lots of liberal politics, including very active support for illegal immigration, are dressed up as religion. The United Methodist Church is one of the worst offenders on that. Since illegal immigration is one of the top national issues, I would think that the UMC's position on border issues would have entered the discussions, but I was not there and do not know that. Apparently positions on homosexuality were a big driver on both sides.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 8:46 am
By: borderhawk
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This is a totally sleazy way to run a campaign with such smears. Brinson is as dirty as Berger when he goes along with it. We do not need dishonorable people like that representing us.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 8:32 am
By: Bubba
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Big Bob: You can't vote for him. Remember, you are a proud Leftist.
This is a Republican primary.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 7:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Social gospel in 1971. Let me guess, African Americans wanted to be served at the lunch counter?
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 7:22 am
By: Big Bob
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Still not voting for that guy.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 7:17 am
By: Big Bob
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All six of them.
Every single one of you knows a woman who has had an abortion. Lets not go overboard.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 7:19 am
By: Big Bob
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The political corruption of our justice system by Biden and the Democrats is a huge threat to democracy. It is making us like a Third World banana republic or like Putin's Russia. If a stop is not put to it, we will soon see American democracy in our rearview mirror.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 7:11 am
By: Rino Hunter
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Phil Berger started off as a conservative, but he went over to the dark side soon after Roy Cooper was elected governor. Some thought Cooper must have something on Berger like an obscene photo of Berger and farm animals or something, but it is more likely that he just played upon Berger's growing greed for power and money. Cooper has not needed Democrats when he had Phil Berger to put the key items of his liberal agenda through the legislature. It is arranged so the liberal special interests that benefit from Cooper's agenda keep Berger supplied with money to keep Berger in power.
It is the old Marc Basnight system resurrected by Berger who still tries to call himself a "Republican" even when he goes so far as to publcly endorse a liberal Democrat judge as he did last election. The scheme is to try to concentrate power at the top and use special interest money to try to intimidate those who don't like it. The thought of a principled conservative leader like Mike Speciale coming to the Senate scares the crap out of Berger because he has seen what Speciale did in the House to successfully stand up to the backroom establishment. There are conservatives in the Senate who are unhappy with the liberal Berger dictatorship, but nobody willing to put their head up and lead. As former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, Speciale has the street cred to step up and do that even as a freshman senator and he has the proven backbone to do it. That is what conservatives badly need in the Senate, not another yes-man like Brinson. Speaking of puppies, the money Berger has spent in this district would give Berger ownership of Bob Brinson if he ever got to Raleigh, and make Brinson little more than Berger's lap puppy. Brinson seems to be so anxious for a stepping stone on his ambition to run for Congress that he does not care. It is all about maximizing power and money for Berger, and Brinson is just a pawn, a useful idiot, for him.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 6:59 am
By: Rino Hunter
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Satanic Temple uses abortion to fill their human sacrifice rituals.
Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 5:48 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Sad to see Randy and Carolyn caught up in this controversy, but as a former Methodist myself, I was pleased to see the emergence of the Global Methodist Church and proud that Washington's own First Methodist joined it. I myself bailed out of the United Methodist Church back in 1971 over the "social gospel" when I went away to college. I had grown up active in the Methodist Church, and our own congregation and minister were great, but in high school I became aware of the impact of social gospel on the overall church organization. I was going to have to join a new church in a new location anyway, and due to the social gospel decided it would not be a United Methodist Church. My family was historically Lutheran from the time they settled in North Carolina in the 1740s until my parents decided to join a Methodist church many of their friends and neighbors were members of, so I researched the Lutheran Church and found way too much social gospel in its dominant branch, so I ended up joining the traditionalist Missouri Synod Lutheran Church, which met my expectations. If the Global Methodist Church had been an option in 1971, that is probably where I would have gone.
Commented: Monday, February 12th, 2024 @ 7:30 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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At least you don't deny the facts.
Commented: Monday, February 12th, 2024 @ 6:36 pm
By: Big Bob
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The leadership of both parties do not represent middle class citizens. On the Republican side think censored Thom Tilli$, think woke Catherine Truitt, think sell outs Berger and Moore, think corrupt State Republican Chairman Whatley, think hateful, self-serving BC Republican Party with their canceling conservatives antics.
This latest example (Tilli$ endorsing Truitt) of elitist insiders and their opportunistic friends circling the wagons is just one more situation where the GOP establishment is doubling down in their brazen opposition to grassroots citizens. These people are NOT our friends, and they DO NOT CARE what we think. The primary election recommendations on this site are a public service for those of us that have been betrayed by these people working overtime to destroy us for their own rotten gains.
Commented: Monday, February 12th, 2024 @ 5:34 pm
By: Van Zant
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