Everywhere I look, on every issue, I am seeing America split into two camps. You are either a “Progressive” big government, gay promoting, pro-amnesty, green zealot, or you are a “Constitutionalist” small government, freedom lover. Our country divided is unfriendly, uncivil, unhappy, and suffering from a lack of cohesive citizenship, pitting false ideas of victimhood […]
A mixed bag of news on the local media front, with word that former WBT talker and PH contributor Pete Kaliner has landed a gig with News 14 covering the education beat, effective this Friday. That’s a huge win for Charlotte; Kaliner for years was one of the best and brightest reporters on the local […]
It wouldn’t seem to matter whether it comes up heads or tails, the taxpayers and commonsense lose either way. NPR, of all sources, has the details about the government’s latest adventures in fiscal folly: Unused dollar coins have been quietly piling up in Federal Reserve vaults in breathtaking numbers, thanks to a government program that […]
A headline in the editorial pages of the uptown paper says: EpiCentre officials are hurt by their own silence. The implication is direct: What has downtown Charlotte done now? One reads on and discovers the focus to be the recent arrest of Phillip Agnew at the EpiCentre. It turns out the editorial is a reprint […]
It may be months before Halloween, but there is a fiend hiding in plain sight just waiting to pounce on the uninformed American citizen. That fiend is dressed as an entitlement monster, and that monster is about to attack. Thanks to House Guest Frank Hill for providing some charts courtesy of the Congressional Budget Office. […]
A divided city council on Monday night voted to withhold nearly $10 million in funding for the embattled Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, while simultaneously agreeing to provide the tourism booster group with $1.7 million for “business development purposes,” to be disbursed at the discretion of the city manager, and $800,000 in immediate funding to sustain […]
We’d be remiss if we didn’t note with a genuine degree of sadness the death of former Wolfpack hoops star Lorenzo Charles. This from ESPN: RALEIGH, N.C. — Lorenzo Charles, the muscular forward whose last-second dunk gave underdog North Carolina State a stunning win in the 1983 national college championship game, was killed Monday when […]
Perhaps you’ve seen the sign: Drink Coffee – Do stupid things faster, with more enthusiasm. Reminds me of some politicians I know and pundits I read. Thomas Friedman, one of the partisan pundits who pretends a knowledge of economics, recently argued for more deficit spending to prime the economy. What would he consider the $1.3 […]
That’s right, as I begin writing this it is fast approaching Midnight Sunday here in our nation’s Capital Washington, DC. By the time I am finished it will be the wee hours of Monday and I must say I have had an amazing three days with more to come. I have had the great pleasure […]
Two totally different genres on tap for tonight’s House Party. We’ll go in order from something old to something new. In the something old category, Dion and the Belmonts was one of my favorite bands growing up. I listened to nothing but “oldies” music until I got to college. This is “Don’t Know Why I […]
