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Exactly CV. Most reasonable people can go up to 20 weeks. After that there has to be a real medical reason not just an inconvenience. Most of us lefties can agree to that provided rape and incest are included. Asking a woman to carry a rapist baby is beyond the pale.

Commented: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 6:25 pm By: Big Bob

Man I hope people are ok that's a tough thing to watch happen to some of the best people I had ever met. They have one of the oldest contracts in this country. That's longevity and integrity.

I always wished I was qualified to join that mastership. Hell, it ain't even gotta pay me that good. I love trains, like Stephen king's train in the roses books of the gunslinger.

Commented: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 5:01 pm By: Lakota pride

In the annals of American Presidents there have been very few Roman Catholic Presidents; Joe Biden is a Roman Catholic, and mentions it often ... as it that information is a salient point.

When the last wishes of a highly regarded Roman Catholic Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, is that Joseph R. Biden NOT attend his funeral; representing all Americans, and, especially, all American Roman Catholics: What does that scream about Joe Biden's character by the essential dictates of the last wishes of this true man of God?

Commented: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 1:13 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Reproductive rights including abortion are important to Americans. In the past, republicans could pay lip service to banning abortion because the SC had spoken and their decision offered the ability to act pro-life but not actually do anything. When Roe v Wade was undone, we witnessed the political fallout as the red wave shrunk to a red puddle. Even

Considering the violence perpetrated by the anti-choice movement a little spray paint doesn't seem so bad does it? How many doctors have been murdered by anti-choicers? I think its important for both sides to step back and think before acting.

Personally I'm against abortion and therefore will never have one. If you choose to have one, its between you, your doctor and God. Leave the government out of it.

Commented: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 11:06 am By: Big Bob

Biden can't make a discussion without Harris. N.C..

Commented: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 9:58 am By: Sue

Kevin McCarthy is a prostitute for the special interests, much like Mitch McConnell and the GOP leaders in the NC General Assembly. That is the basic problem with McCarthy. He is one of the biggest alligators in the swmap. It was appalling that Trump backed him. The last time McCarthy made a stab at Speaker, he dropped out due to his controversial relationships with Renee Ellmers, an NC Congresswoman, and Frank Luntz, a big time lobbyist, alleged pollster, and political operator. With Ellmers, it was simply an affair with a married colleague which was very well known in Congress. With Luntz, McCarthy was his roommate, which was odd since super lobbyist Luntz who worked for big names in Big Pharma and Big Tech clearly made enough money he did not have to bunk in with womebody to hold expenses down. The relationship between McCarthy and Luntz was a lot deeper than just being roommates. Some have suggested it was also sexual, but there is no evidence of that. At minimum Luntz was a scummy dude who had way too much influence on McCarthy. After that first round, McCarthy seemed to cut his ties with Luntz, but in the last couple of months, Luntx has suddenly come back in the picture and that is very disturbing. McCarthy even made Luntz a speaker at a recent GOP House caucus meeting to advise on messaging.

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The conservatives have gotten concessions from McCarthy to weaken the power of the Speaker within the caucus and give the rank and file more control. That badly needs to be done in the NC General Assembly as well since Berger and Moore are the same breed of snake as McConnell and McCarthy. Will those concessions be enough to keep McCarthy from betraying the GOP base like McConnell does regularly? Only time will tell.

Commented: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 7:35 am By: John Steed

This is probably designed to bleed over to illegal aliens as well. Already, there are probably way too many illegal aliens who Social Services has found ways to put on the welfare rolls, either through their children or otherwise, and that is sapping federal, state, anc county taxpayer funds. This needs to be stopped.

Commented: Friday, January 6th, 2023 @ 3:03 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The Beer Party is polling just on the cusp of winning seats in the Austrian parliament, which would be the first there for a satirical political party. There was a Beer Party which won seats in the parliament of one of the Baltic states (Lativa, if memory serves) shortly after the fall of communism. Australia has its Sex Party that came within an eyelash of winning a federal Senate seat a few elections back under its preferential voting system. More mundane, even if they were persistant, were Canada's Rhinocerous Party, which won enough votes it qualified for free TV air time, and the UK's Monster Raving Loony Party led for many years by rocker Screaming Lord Such.

Commented: Friday, January 6th, 2023 @ 9:55 am By: Steven P. Rader

IT is telling that this site's resident leftie, Big Bob, who has returned after a long sabatical, would support McConnell, who is nothing but a big spender and Democrats enabler. It is telling that while McConnell has the lowest approbal rating of any US politial leader by far, with two recent polls showing his approval in the single digits, and disapproval over 70%, the group in both polls who had the least negative opinion of McConnell were the Democrats. McConnell is their man, not ours. And what is Bob smoking if he thinks inflation and gas prices are down?

Commented: Friday, January 6th, 2023 @ 8:15 am By: John Steed

But Mitch get elected. He may do all the stuff you say he does but the dude has been there forever. Sometimes you have to listen to the people. Not everybody, just enough to get elected. So far, inflation is down, gas prices down. Considering the war, covid and all the other stuff going on, things aren't that bad.

Commented: Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 9:34 pm By: Big Bob

Considering the state of infrastructure in the U.S. I'm kind of glad this got done. At some point a crumbling bridge is more important than "owning the libs". Sure lots of Pork in these types of bills, but both parties are guilty of over spending.

Commented: Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 2:15 pm By: Big Bob