Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman was besieged by a mob of union members and assorted Democrat goons this week outside the state Capital in Madison. Grothman manages to make his way to an entry of the Capital building, but the door is locked and he finds himself cornered by the mob. Democrat legislator Brett Hulsey […]
Those skyrocketing oil prices, don’t worry about it. No big deal. This from The Washington Times: President Obama’s top economic adviser said Thursday the White House is monitoring the spike in oil prices as a result of uprisings in Libya, but said that recent fluctuations aren’t likely to derail the U.S. economic recovery. Austan Goolsbee, […]
More of your money, more of my money, more of everybody’s money. For a little distributing of the wealth, don’t you know. Check out the latest from Flinthead elitist Michael Moore: “They’re sitting on the money, they’re using it for their own — they’re putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with […]
Any dictator worth his salt holds a rank or a title befitting his position. Hitler was der Fuehrer, Stalin a Premier and Castro the leader of the people’s revolution. Despots invariably come packaged with lofty monikers, either by personal choice or popular declaration. So what happened to Col. Muammar Gaddafi? Gaddafi is no doubt the […]
A Letter to Our Enemies: Dearest Opponent, Let me assure you that your threats that have been spoken, have been heard. The building of your armaments and the vitriol of your leaders against all of our foreign aid, has been duly observed and noted. Your shaking fists and the rallies in the streets, chants of […]
Mecklenburg Commissioner George Dunlap had the perfect opportunity at Tuesday night’s board meeting to clear up pressing questions about why and when he requested the county manager to release protected personnel information of former sheriff and current commissioners vice chairman Jim Pendergraph. Dunlap instead spent nearly a half-hour ranting and braying about what he called […]
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been keeping you informed about a bill recently introduced by Representative Glen Bradley to nullify S. 510, the Federal War on Food. S. 510 uses a patchwork of rules and regulations on the food “industry” to throw America’s heartland under the government-subsidized corporatist bus as it crushes local […]
Or engage in other unlawful conduct, gross negligence of duties or willful malfeasance, according to the sweet-deal contract inked for Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones. Under the terms of that so-called employment agreement, if Jones were fired, even with cause, before December 31, 2011, he would be “treated as if he had completed 20 years […]
When politicians tell you it’s not about the money, you can usually bank on one certainty: it’s about the money. Take, for example, speed cameras. When they were rammed through the Queen City in 2005, politicians swore up one side and down the other that it wasn’t about money. It was about safety, we were […]
Governor Beverly Perdue was in Washington over the past weekend, among other things, begging Barack Obama personally for a bailout. Specifically, she requested that the Feds defer interest payments that North Carolina is obligated to pay for loans from the federal government to cover unemployment benefits for NC residents. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, interest […]
