Want to land a quick and easy $900,000 to teach cocaine-fueled monkeys how to boogie down with weird dances that can be featured on YouTube? Ask the federal government for a grant and you’d probably be in luck. It worked for UNC Charlotte and Wake Forest University, two institutions of higher learning that received hundreds […]
In this case the price tag sits at upwards of $9 million, part and parcel of Charlotte’s lunatic obsession to include an affordable housing component in the redevelopment of NoDa’s Mecklenburg Mills. It started back in the early 1990s, when the city approved a $1 million loan to a developer to purchase and rehabilitate the […]
I don’t know about you, but I woke up one day, some undetermined moment a few years ago, and suddenly found myself in a country that is being run by an overabundance of rules put in place by unrecognizable leaders in our government. By unrecognizable, I mean people with whom I can’t relate. By that […]
Catching up with last month’s release of the federal government’s Mid-Session Budget Review, this devastating account from The Heritage Foundation concludes the numbers are nothing less than an admission from the Obama Administration that its economic policies and the massive $862-billion stimulus package have been an abject failure. From The Foundry: When President Obama sold […]
Americans take pride in being the world’s freest people. We celebrate freedom on Independence Day. We sing of it before our sporting events. But haven’t history’s most brutal regimes concealed tyranny behind veils of patriotism and rhetorical allusions to liberty? After all, dictators don’t gain power while pledging chains and slavery. They gain power with […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons Revelers celebrate at Charlotte Bon Odori, the 26th annual Japanese summer festival, held Saturday at Wachovia Atrium. [nggallery id=61]
Photos by: Glen Simmons Participants in the Fourth Annual Marine Mud Challenge get down and dirty for a good cause. The event was held Saturday, July 31, at Belmont Abbey College and proceeds benefitted Marine families. [nggallery id=60]
