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What a surprise (sarc), neo-Marxist internet troll Bullsh!t Bob is in denial again. As usual, s/he confuses the far left narrative with "the truth".

Commented: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 7:52 pm By: Conservative Voter

If your a white straight man. Everybody else, not so much.

Commented: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 3:32 pm By: Big Bob

Attempts to modify or control the weather have always existed. From prayer to cloud seeding. That you believe. But dumping 49 million tons of CO2 in to the atmo each and every day - no effect. Good lord.

Commented: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 3:48 pm By: Big Bob

Do they have an actual written policy at Beaufort County Schools on this or is it shoot from the hip every time it comes up. Yeah, the superintendant's response was more than a little vague about the actual action taken to stop this at the early college high school.

Commented: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 1:51 pm By: Bubba

Much of that spending under Trump was for the Covid overreaction, and Covid was not Trump's finsest hour. Overall, though, Trump and Reagan have been our best presidents in living memory.

Commented: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 12:28 pm By: Conservative Voter

Trump = added 7 trillion during his 4 years
Yawn

Commented: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 11:54 am By: Big Bob

With Cheeseman and this transgender mess, it seems to be all talk and no DO. It just keeps happening in our schools. Not so many months ago, we had this happen with a teacher at Washington High School having a gender transition lesson in class. Now, it has reared its ugly head at the Early College High School. There was also a male student on the south side of the river that the school staff allowed to change into womena clothes at school for the school day and change back before going home to hide it from his parents. When are our schools going to take strong and definitive action to put a stop to teachers involvement in pushing gender dysphoria?

Commented: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 12:05 pm By: Conservative Voter

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, as a Democratic Socialist sleaze, from the county sized state of Rhode Island, has always been an intellectually corrupt political hack.

Is there any wonder that these Democratic Socialist fools, like Sheldon Whitehouse, have put this Representative Republic into great peril?

Commented: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 8:21 am By: Stan Deatherage

Will McCarthy be all talk and no "do" as he was on the last budget fight? I hope he will exhibit some backbone this time, and am keeping my fingers crossed, but I wonder. He did not even remove the 87,000 newe IRS stormtroopers from the budget that time and only got a little useless window dressing.

Commented: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 7:02 am By: Rino Hunter

One could argue that Speaker McCarthy is brave to "enter the lions den" of the Democratic Socialist Propagandist Media, but I have a different mind on the subject: I would think it would be a blast to battle these Non Journalist Fools, armed with no more than one's superior and honest brain.

I personally would enjoy that, he adrenaline pumping and the battle of wits, armed only with the real truth enjoined.

Commented: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 12:39 am By: Stan Deatherage

As a long serving (real) Republican county commissioner, I understand local politics quite well, and what we may have the beginnings of is a veritable "canary in the coal mine" effect, where Democrats are acting on what they might well have long known: The wise (real) Republicans fix the failings of the Democratic Socialists ... but this time it is different ... The vapid Democratic Socialists may be at the beginning stages of being finished.

Hopefully, they will take the RINOs down with them.

Commented: Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 @ 11:57 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Here is who really NEEDS term limits; the Speaker of the NC House and the President Pro Tem of the Senate. There is way too much power concentrated in those offices to the detriment of individual legislators and their constituents. Has Perry introducted any legislation on that? No, he hasn't.

For a century, there was a honor system in the NC House of one term Speakers, which prevented a concentration of power. Then Democrat Liston Ramsey decided he was going to be Speaker for life and in the process became an obnoxious dictator. A group of conservative and good government Democrats led by Joe Mavretic joined with Republicans to oust Ramsey and elect Mavretic as speaker. Unfortunately, our last two GOP Speakers have turned out to be Ramsey wannabees, and that is not good for the state or the GOP.

In the Senate, there was no concentration of power because Senate power was divided between the Lieutenant Governor and the President Pro Tem. When Jim Gardner was elected as a GOP Lt. Governor, the Democrats stripped him of most of his legislative power and concentrated it in President Pro Tem Marc Basnight, who became another little dictator. Unfortunately, Republicans have followed in Basnight's footsteps and kept too much power concentrated.

Term limits on these offices, even if only two or three terms, would do a lot to end this concentration of power.

Commented: Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 @ 9:13 pm By: Steven P. Rader