The Daily Diatribe: I love what Google did in China. For those who are not aware, Google decided to abandon its Chinese-language search services hosted on mainland servers. There are many out there who believe that Google erred by choosing to ignore a 1.4 billion person marketplace. I applaud what they did. I heard Jack […]
Taking lots of people for lots of rides, actually, and at an eye-popping annual cost of about $5-million for taxicab trips alone. It’s taken local attorney and always-vigilant House Guest columnist Tom Ashcraft months to pry loose details on the copious amounts of loot the Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services doled out for transportation […]
What should we make of a recent editorial arguing that the Obama White House has made no attempt to infringe upon the Second Amendment and that Obama openly declared his respect for the right to bear arms during his presidential campaign? It’s true that President Obama hasn’t advanced the gun control agenda. He hasn’t even […]
You might as well go ahead and click on this great song by The Tams, “I’ve Been Hurt” to listen to as background while you read the rest of this article, and especially shout out the words, ‘Baby you cheated, mistreated, you cheated, cheated on me. And you told me, you told me… You told […]
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education moved a step closer Tuesday night to the grim reality of having to layoff upwards of 800 employees, including about 600 teachers, in response to a funding shortfall that could require the district to cut $80 million from its budget. With a 6-3 vote, the board rejected a motion to […]
House Guest columnist and former WBT talker Jeff Katz has been named morning drive-time host for Boston’s new conservative talk radio station, “Rush Radio 1200” WXKS-AM. Katz slides behind the microphone for the weekday morning show, 5 a.m. to 9 a.m., on April 5. (Phew! For a second there, we thought it was going to […]
The Daily Diatribe: The dog ate my homework and the Congressional Office of Management and Budget said that healthcare reform will reduce the deficit by 136 billion dollars over the next ten years. Both are big, hairy lies. The only thing that surprises me is that the media buys it and tries to sell it […]
Color me a cynically, clinically insane conspiracy nut, but there’s a neuron firing in my brain’s Machiavellian lobe that says Mayor Anthony Foxx’s e-mail to council warning off sexual harassment of city staff has as much to do with politics as possible perversion. Not that politics and perversion are mutually exclusive. Foxx’s message, sent last […]
And leaving a sleazy trail along the way, according to N.C. Republican Party Chairman Tom Fetzer. Perdue has in recent months disclosed that her gubernatorial campaign received 31 flights that did not comply with state campaign finance law. Last week her campaign forfeited $48,000 related to questionable contributions received from nine donors connected to a […]
Revisions that the city council approved Monday night to a program that provides loans to small businesses sparked debate about whether the initiative was more focused on social engineering and exerting government control over the private sector, than on creating new jobs for a community battered by high unemployment. With the approved program revisions in […]
