Senator Tom Coburn has released a well researched document that provides further reasons for opposing the grossly misnamed Food Safety and Modernization Act. this appears early in the report; Specifically, GAO found that in 2003, FDA and USDA activities included overlapping and duplicative inspections of 1,451 domestic food-processing facilities that produce foods regulated by both […]
One of the ways the federal government controls local governments is with strings. An amorphous agency gives some amount of money for some wonderful, pie-in-the-sky program, with strings attached. Local governments, being unwilling to say no to tax money taken by another authority simply because they aren’t held responsible for the taxes but get to […]
In what has become an entirely too predictable and utterly disgraceful headline, we read of yet another case of a repeat offender accused of a violent crime, this time the abduction and murder of Valerie Hamilton. It is demonstrably clear that Mecklenburg County has a serious problem with its revolving-door criminal justice system, just ask […]
There’s an old adage common to rural America: He comes around with his hat in his hand. It means that one person has granted deference to another. When the subservient person meets the one who’s considered superior the hat is removed in recognition of that status. That adage can apply to relationships between entities and […]
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The controversial micro-loan lender Grameen America is getting ready to hit Charlotte taxpayers up for a permanent loan – a.k.a. subsidy grant – of $200,000. A local organizing committee is already raising funds to launch a Grameen America branch in Charlotte and says it needs the grant largess to help fill its revolving loan pool, […]
Gang of thieves writ large: The City of Rock Hill will shut off the water to over 100 homes on Monday because the homeowners don’t want to be annexed. These people already pay for the water they’re getting, and pay twice as much as city residents already. A majority of the Rock Hill City Council […]
I’d like to still be able to celebrate this day four, eight years from now. Vote like it matters; because it does.
You know liberals are on the run when the MSM picks up on any and every gaffe by conservative candidates, using words as weapons to paint them as nut jobs; that’s expected, par-for-the-course politics. But the latest O’Donnell bashing from the ultra-leftist Media Matters is a stretch. This from POLITICO: The trickle of media hits […]
The pending expiration of the “Bush” tax cuts at year end has given rise to much debate and discussion as to whether these tax cuts should be extended in part or in total. President Obama has taken the position that he does not favor the extension of these tax cuts to Americans at the upper […]
