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Just look at what Global Warming is doing to the Mid West and the North East. Those poor polar bears can move more South now.

Commented: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 10:40 pm By:

I have to agree with you on that one.

Many of the Republicans of that day were rather unremarkable, excepting President William McKinley (a smart /competent president), who was shot dead; however, Roosevelt would have never been president if the then Republican had not dislike him as they did, which made for a most serendipitous presidency ... You know the ironic story here.

His largest political mistake was promising to stand for only one election. The party that did not like him held him to that promise.

Commented: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 4:49 pm By: Stan Deatherage

The disgusting omnibus actually prohibted use of funds for a border wall or enhanced border security on our border while giving hundreds of millions to middle eastern countries to protect their borders. When Arizona stacked up shipping containers to make a makeshift border wall, Biden demanded they take it down, and the weak RINO governor is doing so. Biden should be indicted for high treason for his anti-America border policies that make a mockery of our immigration laws. North Carolina has its own problem with our own amnesty whore Thom Tillis. Hats off to Poland and Lithuania. They recognize the problem and are taking solid steps to effectively deal with it.

Commented: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 3:07 pm By: borderhawk

What Teddy Roosevelt did in the 1912 election is a big reason I do not care for him. He ran on the Progressive Party ticket, and as a former Republican president, he split the Republican vote, allowing another obnoxious progressive, Woodrow Wilson to become president, which had a huge list of negative consequences. It was all about Teddy's ego, not what was good for the country. Roosevelt's platform in 1912 was quite far to the left, but he drew most of his votes based on his personality, not his platform.

Commented: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 2:15 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The Spanish American War was a war that Big Media of the day pushed us into. Spain probably had nothing to do with the explosion on the battleship Maine, which was not at all in their interest. It came within a day of being an extremely consequential war for the US, because that is how long the Imperial German Far East Fleet lost their race with Dewey to reach Manila Bay. Imperial Germany wanted the Phillipines and when the war broke out, they ordered their Far East Fleet based in Kaio Chau, the German version of Hong Kong on the Chinese coast, to steam for Manila. The goal was to position the German fleet in front of the Spanish to force US Admiral Dewey to either attack them first or leave. If the former happened, the Kaiser was ready to go to the Reichstag for a declaration of war, and America would have found itself fighting the world's second most powerful navy at the time (the UK's Royal Navy was the most powerful). As it was, the German fleet was a day late and while they steamed around trying to provoke an attack by Dewey, including landing German marines, Dewey was smart enough to ignore them and they eventually steamed away. Even after the naval gambit failed, Germany offered to buy the Phillipines from Spain and take on evicting the Americans themselves. That is why in the peace treaty with Spain, the US paid for the Phillipines while Cuba and Puerto Rico were ceded without any payment.

Commented: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 12:20 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive Republican, a big spender and a big government guy, more like a Cheney than a Trump. His role in the Spanish American War was more hype than reality. He may have exuded a certain personal bravado, but his politics were to the left of most Republicans of his day.

Commented: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 10:23 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

What a baldfaced LIAR Tillis is. In fact, Tillis was the only Republican to help Schumer obliterate the biggest obstacle to passing the omnibus. dailyhaymaker.com

Commented: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 9:20 am By: John Steed

Phil Berger is a poster boy for term limits. In his early days, he was a staunch conservative but has gone native inside the beltway to become a Democrat collaborator and go-fer of the special interests. Berger now pushes a liberal agenda which has included radical enviromentalism / green new deal, the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, and pandering to the Gaystapo. Indeed, these days, I wonder which bathroom Berger uses and which pronouns.

Paul Newton talks a good game but does not walk the walk. He is a retired executive of very "woke" Duke Energy and he has supported the NC Green New Deal, the repeal of our bathroom privacy law HB2, and Obamacare Medicaid expansion. Newton is as phony as a three dollar bill.

Tim Moore in the House is just as much a Democrat collaborator as Berger, the John Boehner of North Carolina. He has also pushed surrendering to the Gaystapo on mulitple issues, the NC Green New Deal which will gouge our electric ratepayers, and the Obamacare Medicaid expansion.

With "Republicans" like these, who even needs Democrats? Phil Berger is as much a sellout RINO as Mitch McConnell, and Newton is not any better. Berger publicly endorsed a Democrat judge against a Republican this past election, and he needs party discipline for that.

Commented: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 8:36 am By: Rino Hunter

To blame those who haven't taken the shot is ignorance at it's best. I personnally do not bully others into believing to or not to take the shot. It is one's own decision. I'm not a leper to cause a disease to come upon another humun being. Blame the manufacture, what are they hiding?

Commented: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 9:50 pm By: Not the problem

I have been a Beaufort County Commissioner for 22 years, and now in my 7th term, but what do I know about high level Washington, DC Swamp Politics /Governing?

Well, I know this: All Republicans that voted for this legislative abomination have no future in ever running for president, or their state's governorship, for they will never win this evolving Republican Party's nomination.

I may be a low level politician, here in Beaufort County, but, I am an optimist, and this I know, the Republican Party Elitists cease their Establishment love of Swamp Politics or die on the political vine a certain death.

Commented: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 9:57 am By: Stan Deatherage

Beaufort County schools need a solid policy to keep boys out of the girls restrooms and locker rooms. Do we have one?

Commented: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 7:45 am By: Conservative Voter

This attack on our electric rates and electric reliability is the fault of the RINOs as well as Cooper. Phil Berger and Tim Moore, the "Republican legislative leaders" rammed through HB951 very heavy handedly. They were doing this to cozy up to Cooper but also do carry water for the special interests, very "woke" Duke Power plus the wind and solar grifters. Our new RINO state senator Jim Perry of Kinston was also in the thick of pushing this. We have a bunch of RINOs who threw Republican voters and NC electric ratepayers under the bus on HB951 and they badly need to be taken out in primaries.

Here is the sordid tale of how this happened in the NC General Assembly:
www.beaufortcountynow.com

Rep. Keith Kidwell was unfortunately out with Covid during the critical times of these events but Sen. Jim Perry was a major player in making them happen. Perry needs to be primaried by a real Republican in 2024. It is bad enough that we are stuck with poseur Perry for the next two years.

Commented: Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 @ 8:36 am By: John Steed