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The whistle-blower site Cryptome.org says it has found the place in North Carolina where Navy SEALs trained for their raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan: In the best-selling book “No Easy Day,” a retired Navy SEAL who was on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden revealed that training for the assault onContinue Reading

The conservative Government Accountability Institute has found that President Obama is accepting foreign campaign donations: [T]he non-partisan group, Government Accountability Institute (GAI) released its 109 page report, the first ever analysis of election campaign donations issues called, “America the Vulnerable: Are Foreign and Fraudulent Online Campaign Contributions Influencing U.S. Elections?” raises indications the Obama campaignContinue Reading

• Obama capitalists: Two Triangle-area venture capitalists and equity players have bundled a combined $1 million for the president’s campaign. • Stop the presses: “Representative Deborah Ross and her husband, Steve, enjoyed the Hopscotch music festival in downtown Raleigh and a free concert by the NC Symphony this weekend.” • A big supporter: “New JerseyContinue Reading

Heartland Publications, which owns 20 small newspapers in North Carolina, is now owned by a new group called Civitas Media, LLC: Versa Capital Management, LLC, a private equity investment firm, today announced the creation of Civitas Media, LLC, a new community news media company. Civitas, Latin for “community” or “citizen,” combines four media entities ownedContinue Reading

• John Tedesco, the Republican nominee for state Schools Superintendent, says campaign contributions he has received, and which are being questioned by a Democratic activist, are entirely appropriate. • U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been judged by the Office of Special Counsel to have violated the Hatch Act with here endorsementsContinue Reading

You know that news we’ve been hearing for the last day or so that the Office of Special Counsel had ruled that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius violated the Hatch Act by electioneering on government time? Well, it happened here in North Carolina: “OSC concluded that Secretary Sebelius violated the Hatch Act whenContinue Reading

• N.C. House Speaker tells a “Rock the Red” video interviewer why he supports Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. • Democratic gubernatorial nominee Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton unveils his economic and jobs policy in a Raleigh pub. • Coincidentally, Republican gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory released an ad on the same day as Dalton’s latest. TheContinue Reading

• Under fire from two sides, Rep. Larry Kissell sticks to his message in the 8th District U.S. House of Representatives race. • A Wake County Superior Court Judge on Mondaythrew out a lawsuit by North Carolina Citizens for Progress against Republican gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory. • Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton offersContinue Reading