Mecklenburg County commissioners this week approved acceptance of a $340,000 grant that will be used to help combat crime and juvenile delinquency by teaching gangbangers the fine art of professional culinary skills. In the process, a popular West side recreational facility that was closed this year because of budget cuts will receive a new lease […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Wheels were spinning and boards flying at the Monster Energy Beast of the Street Skate Competition held last week uptown at Third and Tryon. [nggallery id=102]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Revelers enjoy food, fun and culture at the inaugural Turkish Festival of Charlotte, last weekend at Extravaganza Depot. [nggallery id=101]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina The American Indian Heritage Celebration draws a festive crowd last weekend at the Charlotte Museum of History. [nggallery id=100]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Charlotte skates by Bridgeport with a 6-1 win last week. [nggallery id=99]
For those who haven’t read ‘The Road to Serfdom’ by F.A. Hayek, let me recommend it to you. It is one of the cornerstones of modern fiscal conservative thought. Hayek wrote it in the 1940’s and does an excellent job of explaining why government cannot do certain things without detriment to society as a whole. […]
Sometimes you have to hand it to your enemies. Regressives are masterful at portraying themselves as the administrators of “economic fairness.” No Regressive oration would be complete without a splash of class envy. Be it “tax cuts for the greedy rich” or “the rich getting wealthy on the backs of the poor,” the message is […]
The upcoming ‘debate’, such as it will be, on the recommendations of the Bowles-Simpson Deficit Reduction Commission remind me of the annoying kid who would invite you to play basketball at their house on their backyard court with their basketball. Inevitably, almost as if scripted, some foul would be inflicted on said annoying kid (SAK) […]
President Barack Hussein Obama’s healthcare plan, commonly known as ‘Obamacare’, has issued over 111 waivers to different companies and UNIONS, up from 33 in less than a month. This news has gone without a press release by the White House and is buried on the Health and Human Services website. If Obamacare is so great, […]
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