The Boston Tea Party’s time-traveling slogan is “Party like it’s 1773!” (OK, but only if women, Native Americans and blacks have equal rights and everyone can receive the proper immunizations.) Teetotaler Gene Amondson, an Alaskan evangelist, is running for the nation’s top job on the Prohibition Party. And Alan Keyes, who left the GOP, was […]
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State of the enviro book: Let’s hope it’s on recycled paper
The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources plans to release its annual state of the environment report as a coffee table book, reports the Associated Press, News & Observer and NBC17.com Due in December, the report will be free to N.C. residents. It will discuss the agency’s various environmental initiatives including how it has […]
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Spray paint fixes campaign signs
Libertarian candidate Justin Lallinger, called on the carpet for misleading campaign signage, has massaged his message: Spray painting over the “Re” in “Re-elect.” Lallinger’s green campaign signs, which were placed around Durham last week, asked voters to re-elect him to the NC House District 29even though he’s never held office. He’s running against incumbent Larry […]
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McCain different from Bush? Bush was a better pilot.
Just what we need: another carousing, boozing, lying social climber in the Oval Office. Rolling Stone has a jaw-dropping, indepth profile of John McCain–the make-believe maverick. An astonishing accumulation of the facts, plus extensive sourcing and money quotes from McCain’s former war colleagues and Republican cohorts, none of whom, it seems can stand the petulant, […]
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The bailout: Inside U.S. Rep. Howard Coble’s mind
U.S. Rep. Howard Coble of N.C. who initially voted no, then switched his vote to yes on the bailout bill, is among several House members profiled in a New York Times piece taking readers through their minds as they mulled whether how to vote on the bailout. He called the vote one of the most […]
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Raleigh-Durham and the VP debate: We like to watch
Nearly half of all television households in the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville designated market area watched last Thursday’s vice presidential debate, according to Nielsen . The area ranked 19th in the U.S. in households who watched, with a rating of 49.3. One rating point equals 1 percent of the total TV audience. Baltimore, which had a 59.1 rating, […]
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Born under a bad sign
The Libertarian Party Web site has a headline “Party of Principle.” But at least one of the party’s candidates appears to be short in that regard. Libertarian candidate Justin Lallinger’s campaign signs ask voters to re-elect him. But there’s one problem.: He’s never held political office, and you can’t re-elect someone who’se never been elected […]
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Clarification on Price-Lawson
Jack Parry, who is on the committee at Carolina Meadows that plans election-related events, called to say there would be no Price-Lawson forum. However, there will be a day for Republican candidates, including BJ Lawson, Saturday, Oct. 11 at 2 p.m. The Democratic candidates will be featured Friday, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. The original […]
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Lawson-Price forum postponed
The congressional candidates’ forum between Republican BJ Lawson and Democrat David Price scheduled for this evening at Carolina Meadows has been rescheduled for Saturday, Oct. 11 at 2 p.m. Lawson is running against Price, the incumbent, for the Fourth Congressional District seat, which represents Orange, Durham and part of Wake counties. The postponement should allow […]
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Dept. of Nonsense: ‘Obsession’ backers not trying to influence election
The folks who brought you the Obsession DVD–I mean besides The News & Observer– told Talking Points Memo that the shameless distribution of their propaganda–the week of 9/11, during a heated election season, in swing states– was not intended to influence voters. See the Indy’s coverage here. No, the cloak-and-dagger, uber-right Clarion Fund paid big […]
