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Washingtonian: You were wise back in the day.

On the mean, Marijuana does not make people smarter. I can see how some can find a benefit in limited use. The problem is, and historically this this proven, marijuana will be abused too often, and in too great a quantity, therefore it has proven to be a deleterious non benefit upon society.

Commented: Friday, October 3rd, 2025 @ 12:51 am By: Stan Deatherage

Finally, the corrupt James Comey faces the music of abject hypocrisy.

Commented: Thursday, October 2nd, 2025 @ 8:58 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Your a fool that has the Rx lobby in your pockets, marijuana is not a drug nor is it dangerous, the adults that you speak of didn’t make the decisions to get on heroin ecstasy acid, or any other drug for that matter because of marijuana. Beaufort County has to be the highest amount of idiots that run newspapers, blogs, and most importantly people in office.
Sincerely, a citizen that cares

Commented: Thursday, October 2nd, 2025 @ 5:29 pm By: Concerned citizen

The "Schumer Shutdown" is just one more Democratic Socialist political move that will aid in the Democratic Socialist destruction, the suicide of their poor, poor political party.

Commented: Thursday, October 2nd, 2025 @ 1:42 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I read where Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor to call this poll biased and got laughed at. If there is any bias in a New York Times poll it is toward the Democrats, so maybe it should have been 70 or 75% opposed to the shutdown instead of just 65%.

Commented: Thursday, October 2nd, 2025 @ 12:45 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Why isn't NC, and indeed all states, doing these drivers license checks on truckers to get the illegal aliens truckers off the road so that they do not endanger Americans? In our state, it is because we have a mini-Mandani, ultra leftist Josh Stein, as our governor, and he panders to illegal aliens.

Commented: Wednesday, October 1st, 2025 @ 8:11 pm By: Conservative Voter

Right now there is too much incentive for illegal aliens to want to come. It is good to give them an incentive to leave, but even more important is reducing the incentive to come. Giving them luxury hotel rooms, spending money, and good meals gives them a better lifestyle than they had in their home country. To the extent they have to be put up somewhere, put them in tents inside a perimeter fence and give them very basic mess hall meals. Reduce the incentives to come. Make it a tough and miserable life for them. Most of them are not real refugees. They are con men and freeloaders.

Commented: Tuesday, September 30th, 2025 @ 7:55 pm By: borderhawk

Do we have a local Deep State in Beaufort County and is Cheeseman a kingpin of it?

Commented: Tuesday, September 30th, 2025 @ 4:23 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Great question by you RINO Hunter.

I actually hate that statement of qualification of work, because only Liberals, Leftists and RINOs ever state that premise that suggests some work is either not honorable, or too physically arduous for some people to participate in by gaining a skill, or money to sustain themselves from performing a valuable service, which of course was the natural order of life until the Obama /Biden Administration.

If you think about it, much changed during the Obama /Biden administrations, and it is frightening for our society because many of the terrible systemic societal problems that exist among the Leftists began then, when the "ultra cool" Barack Hussein Obama was elected in 2008, which lent much credence to the grand stupidity of the "Social Justice Warrior."

Commented: Tuesday, September 30th, 2025 @ 10:31 am By: Stan Deatherage

Now, the state Board of Educational Examiners has revoked the administrators license of that illegal alien school superintendent. www.breitbart.com

Apparently, he had been a distance runner on the Guyana Olympic team. I guess he could not run fast enough to outrun ICE.

Commented: Monday, September 29th, 2025 @ 6:27 pm By: Conservative Voter

Real immigrants, those who come legally by following the law, are not allowed to receive any welfare, including Medicaid for 5 years after arrival, and have to post a bond from an American citizen to be responsible that they not be a burden on American taxpayers. With illegal aliens, nobody posts such a bond for them, but they are not supposed to get welfare, including medical benefits. One problem there is that they can get short term "emergency" Medicaid for an acute condition, and many local social service offices just keep extending that.

Another problem is that if they qualify for asylum, they CAN get any welfare benefits including Medicaid, which is one of the reasons most of them apply for asylum even thought they really do not qualify. There needs to be a real crackdown on bogus asylum claims. Also, under the international treaties if they enter the US from a "safe" country like Mexico or Canada, they are not even entitled to asylum, and it should be routinely denied on that basis alone.

The other problem is that hospitals are legally required to serve anyone who shows up at the Emergency Room, and illegal aliens all know that method of mooching free health care. This should be cut off by law because it drives up medical costs and medical insurance for American citizens to subsidize this "free" care.

Mostly, these illegal alien parasites need to be rounded up and sent home where they belong.

Commented: Monday, September 29th, 2025 @ 2:44 pm By: borderhawk

Watch out, North Carolina. RINOs Phil Berger and Tim Moore have done the same to us with HB951, NC's Green New Deal. It's mandates on wind and solar are worse than those of the European Union. Who knows if they were pandering to woke energy monopoly Duke Energy or to Roy Cooper, both of whom were pushing for that, but Berger and Moore sure screwed NC consumers.

Commented: Monday, September 29th, 2025 @ 11:07 am By: Concerned Taxpayer