Capitalism without greed is a carnival without a roller-coaster. To paraphrase Gordon Gekko, the villainous Wall Street investor portrayed by Michael Douglas in the movie “Wall Street,” greed is good. Now, I can hear every liberal in America screaming their condemnation, especially in light of the Goldman-Sachs allegations, but hear me out before you misinterpret […]
President Barack Obama seems to relish making provocative statements and generally antagonizing his opposition. Whether it’s out of habit as a community organizer, or just a major character flaw, this president can’t seem to hold his tongue. The Provocateur-in-Chief aimed his latest statement at the Tea Party movement, telling a group at a DNC fundraiser, […]
With the May 4 primary election looming on the near horizon, if you haven’t already started digging into where the candidates stand, now is a good time. And we can’t think of a better place to begin than a recent survey the Campaign For Liberty sent to candidates for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate […]
Gotta love Gov. Bev’s math, or at least admire it for creativity. Perdue’s recommended state budget, released yesterday, prompted the obligatory headlines that focused on nearly $1-billion in savings proposed by the governor. The buzzword “slashed” was all the vogue. Odd thing, though, about those slashes: they result in a bottom-line spending increase of about […]
Talk of snatching $6.3 million from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ budget to help fill an overall county shortfall of $36 million in current-year funding has been floating for weeks. Commissioners made it official last night, when they unanimously approved the mid-year budget reduction. And despite recent howls that the fiscal correction would have dire consequence on CMS […]
A frequent argument for nationalized healthcare is the comparison to auto insurance. Obamacare advocates reason that since government requires people to purchase auto insurance government can also require people to purchase health insurance. The flaws in that argument are numerous. Compulsory auto insurance coverage is a state issue. Each state establishes minimum bodily injury and […]
Just when you thought progressive liberalism couldn’t possibly get any more ridiculous, our European friends have discovered yet another “right” that we as human beings share. The right to a vacation. According to this article from the Ottawa Citizen, Antonio Tajani, the European Union commissioner for enterprise and industry, stated that “traveling for tourism today is […]
Remember way back when Peter Gorman was hailed as an agent of change after being hired to helm Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, and even conservative naysayers like Commissioner Bill James expressed some degree of confidence in the new chief’s promises to break up the district’s bloated bureaucracy and right-size its fiscal ship. The cheers of optimism lasted […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons The 17th Annual Rural Hill Scottish Festival and Loch Norman Highland Games was filled with fun and games this weekend in Huntersville. [nggallery id=28]
About eight years ago I was driving north on I-77 heading home to Huntersville when I was literally placed between a rock and a hard place. It was one of those instances of sheer “life flashing before your eyes” terror; much akin to the 2008 elections. To my right was the concrete “wall of death” […]
