Jeff Taylor – Meck Deck’s guerilla blogging guru for the last six years – splits town this weekend for greener pastures in Cobb County, GA, where we hear they’re trying to steamroll through a $2B light-rail boondoggle; so he should feel right at home, in a sort of twisted, déjà vu kind of way. Taylor’s […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina The TORC Off-Road Championship Series rolls into town at The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway. [nggallery id=169]
As Mayor Anthony Foxx was busying fundraising a record $532,000 to stock his campaign war chest, the Charlotte-area unemployment rate was continuing its sobering trajectory, climbing to 11.2 percent in June from 10.4 percent in May. Ironically, one of the area’s hardest hit by the city’s unemployment woes is one of Foxx’s big constituencies – […]
Two new developments are turning up the heat on claims long made by global warming alarmists, indicating that their dire warnings of imminent doom for Gaia run contrary to actual scientific data, or were wholly fabricated out of thin air. First up, new NASA satellite data that shows “the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more […]
As the N.C. General Assembly was wrapping up Thursday afternoon to adjourn its session, state lawmakers approved new election lines for the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, based on a map drawn by Republican members of a bipartisan citizens advisory committee tasked with creating redistricting plans for commissioners to consider. Democrats are howling with outrage […]
Love him or hate him, you have to at least give credit and kudos to frequent House Guest columnist and WBT guest show host Wayne Powers for always stepping up to speak his mind. I just got a chance to watch tape from Monday night’s city council meeting, where Powers was in full swing, taking […]
Who votes for these people? Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) argued at a news conference with the Congressional Out of Poverty Caucus that the United States does not currently have a budget crisis. “That’s the real crisis – the unemployment, not the deficit. We don’t have a deficit problem right now. In the long term, we […]
Let me see if I can make sense of President Obama’s debt policy for the United States. Oh, that’s right. Nothing makes sense from this President. While he is on TV discussing how concerned he is that America might default on the nation’s debt, it was only less than a year ago that he directed […]
Jeezums – I leave town for a few days of fun and sun at the beach and all kinds of bat guano crazy breaks loose. Where to start? How about with our esteemed city council and mayor, which for weeks have been gnashing teeth over the out-of-control and unaccountable bureaucracy at the Charlotte Regional Visitors […]
Today, Rep. Sue Myrick told Vince Coakley that she will support John Boehner’s plan to raise the debt ceiling. Heritage Action, Club for Growth, Campaign for Liberty, and many other conservative organizations strongly oppose Boehner’s plan. Call Sue Myrick today at (202) 225-1976 and demand that she hold the line on spending and oppose ANY plan to sink our nation further […]
