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Phil Berger (left), Sam Page (right)
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Look, I really don’t have much of a dog in this hunt.  I don’t even live in North Carolina anymore, much less live back in the state senate’s 26th district.  But I did spend most of my life in Rockingham County and I maintain strong connections there.  I visit back there every so often.  And I’ve met Phil Berger and Sam Page at various times over the past two decades.  All of that, and the political commentator that’s been inside me for well over thirty years now is just aching to weigh in on this mess.  So that being said, here it goes…

For those who haven’t known, the 2026 race for North Carolina State Senate District 26 has been thrown into beyond the singularity: a place where future events cannot be estimated.  What happened is that Phil Berger, who has ...

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Someone asked me what do I think about it now coming out that Barack Obama, in the closing days of his presidency, conspired with several others to sabotage the incoming administration of Donald Trump.  There is a lot of evidence now that this indeed happened and if it did, then a lot of people including Obama deserve to go to jail.

It won’t happen.

I’m old enough to recognize a rigged game when I see it.  And that is what the Trump Administration is facing.  Nobody is going to be arrested.  There may be indictments but they won’t go anywhere.  And even if they did, there is going to never be a “guilty” verdict from a jury from the District of Columbia.  Washington is a company town, practically everyone there is on the payroll of that company.  The corruption has long taken too much root.

There may be some ...

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A few weeks ago on American Thinker, I wrote an article about how the Democrat Party is tearing itself apart.  And in all sincerity that’s unfortunate, because I do believe there are good people within that organization (just as there would be in most political parties in America).  However the rising tide of bitterness, rancor, hatred and even suggestions of violence from many attached to the Democrat Party are destroying that party.  So much so that in the article I remarked that the Democrat Party as we have come to know it at the national level will not exist by the 2020 elections and and it may only barely survive past this coming Thanksgiving.

Time will soon tell how accurate that assessment is.  However at the time it was written I had not looked much at the #WalkAway movement.  And now that I have, I am compelled to revise my ...

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