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A note to Big Bob: You are looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Trump is trying to make government smaller and less intrusive. Allow those local school boards to run their schools. Leave the Feds and the state out of it. Same on all a lot of those other touchy feely issues.

Commented: Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 @ 4:15 pm By: Hood Richardson

Any other Trump supporters want to tell us about authoritarianism? Say some something bad a bout trump and see what happens.

Commented: Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 @ 3:20 pm By: Big Bob

Thanks Jewell, one of my favorite singer /songwriters, but still I question: Where are all other artists that should defend the message of a film that is simply "Child Trafficking is bad."

Commented: Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 @ 12:27 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I don't know why people can't understand it he tried to sell this country out for money

Commented: Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 @ 11:00 am By: Mary

It is a safe bet that the 2022 Nobel Prize winner in Physics knows a whole lot more about this climate controversy than a far left internet troll who is given to sweeping denials of whatever contradicts the leftwing political narrative.

Commented: Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 @ 10:02 am By: John Steed

Cappy: There is a devil; there is too much arbitrary evil, and intrinsic corruption in this World otherwise for there not to be one, and thank God, He sent his Son to be amongst us for a short glorious to give us a fine chance at eternal salvation.

There is also a Tom Waits, one of my long time favorite singer /songwriters for nearly 5 decades now. My first memory of Songwriter Waits was "Heart of Saturday Night," which I bought and filtered into my listening queue, such as it was, with the likes of Led Zeppelin and ZZ Top.

Commented: Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 @ 9:29 am By: Stan Deatherage

"Stupid" may indeed be an apt term for those climate alarmist scientists who made all those outlandish claims that never came true, but given what was exposed in the Climategate emails, I think "deceptive" might be a more accurate term.

On the other hand, the scientists who exposed the lack of a sound basis for the global warming / climate change theory based on manmade CO2 are spot on.

Commented: Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 @ 10:05 pm By: John Steed

It is hard to believe the all it took was one RINO to push Donna Simon out of running from Beaufort County as the Conservative for that state senate seat just a few years back.

Commented: Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 @ 5:31 pm By: Stan Deatherage

This Andy Wells sounds like what we do not need as governor. Dale Folwell is the clear choice for taxpayers. He has the track record as State Treasurer both on understanding and dealing with the issues and having the backbone to stand up and fight. Folwell is head and shoulders above the rest. Robinson talks a very good game, but his performance is not up to that of Folwell. Still, he would be my second choise.

Commented: Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 @ 1:49 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This ferry toll business would be bad for both the people and the economy of Beaufort County if it is not stopped in the legislature.

Stan, you are spot on when you call Perry "tone deaf". I checked into him when he screwed us on the Medicaid expansion, which is part and parcel of Obamacare. He is personally a multi-millionaire who in his own life does not have to worry about what things cost, so he just doesn't care about the financial burdens he places on others. He did not care that the Medicaid expansion would drive up health care costs and insurance costs for the rest of us. He does not care that the ferry tolls will be a financial burden on those who have to use the ferries daily to get to their jobs. He did not care that the Green New Deal he pushed will cause major increases in the electric bills for ordinary citizens and for small busiinesses.

And Steven, you put it very mildly when you said you wished Perry would listen more to grassroots Republicans. The fact is that he does not listen at all. Perry's MO is to gather campaign money from special interests and then do their bidding in Raleigh. He had done nothing in the Republican Party when a Senate vacancy occured and Perry was looking for something to do after selling his company. He has spent no time in the party trenches and does not appreciate party activists or voters.

Jim Perry is exactly the type of person that we do NOT need to be electing to public office. He does not seem to have been a major player in pushing the tolls, but he was in a position he could have fought it when it went through the Senate and failed to do so.

Commented: Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 @ 1:17 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Jim Perry, the darling of the Beaufort County GOP, does appear to be politically tone deaf on a number of issues.

Commented: Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 @ 10:17 am By: Stan Deatherage

Ferry tolls?????!!!!! We went through this BS and beat it before. Every time I see the name Jim Perry, he seems to be doing something liberal or stupid or both.

Commented: Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 @ 9:19 am By: Bubba