Alternate Headline: Making Stuff Up As They Go Along. Seriously, how else to explain the eleventh-hour, complete about-face Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is pulling with the latest revision to its ongoing Case for Continuous Upheaval? Schools Chief Peter Gorman and top CMS staff now say they plan to close Harding High School, instead of Waddell. The details […]
The whole frickin’ thing; all 570 rooms, along with its entire banquette hall and restaurant, plus hundreds of more rooms at other luxury hotels throughout Mumbai, to better accommodate the enormous entourage and security detail that will be accompanying The Chosen One on his trip to India next month. This from The Times of India: […]
If there’s an area in which U.S. Senators excel more than tossing tax dollars down rat holes it must be in blowing hot air. List grandstanding and pandering among their attributes, too. The recently passed Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (CALM, S. 2847) displayed these Senatorial “skills” for all to see. If you watch television […]
The Virginia-Pilot reports that several insurance companies in Virginia announced that they were dropping Medicare Advantage Insurance plans, leaving many elderly out in the cold and facing much higher insurance rates. A lot of old folks out there drank the Obama Kool-Aid, now it’s time to pay for it and drink it if you can.
Doug Giles’ rhetoric is a little over the top; but, sad to say, what he says is true. Vets are being screwed when it comes to so many of them not being able to vote in the 2010 elections. Liberals Attempt to Stifle Soldiers’ Ability to Vote “The Left has so derailed and so thoroughly […]
A slate of great requests for this week’s House Party, leading off with one from Mary Ann Christian: a dedication going out to Moe Tucker, former Velvet Underground drummer, for her Tea Party activism, as reported here (a great read, worth your time). Followed up by The Mavericks, submitted by House Guest DJ Adam Love: […]
A distinct possibility if what’s unfolding in Washington state ever makes its way to James’ county commission district in suburban south Mecklenburg. It’s apparently become acceptable and standard practice these days in the ultra-left state of Washington to have illegal aliens canvassing neighborhoods for votes to support liberal Democrat candidates. This from CNSNews: When Maria […]
I have never been a big fan of Karl Rove. I have always felt that he was more about ‘the machine’ than about doing what is right. He was instrumental in removing ‘moral value’ issues from the Republican campaign and concentrating it solely on big government issues. His recent efforts to help the Democratic Party […]
One-stop early voting in Mecklenburg County continues tomorrow, Sunday, and next Saturday, Oct. 30. A list of polling locations and times is available here. Make it count: h/t: Frank Hill
Massive federal spending by Democrats has helped save thousands of public-sector jobs and the GovCo bureaucrats who reaped the benefit don’t want the good times to end. The solution: Look for the union label, and use what is essentially taxpayer money to save their own skins. This from The WSJ: The American Federation of State, […]
