The biggest political fallout from the recently approved debt-deal might still be lurking down the road, with conservative Tea Party Congressional leaders rumbling about lining up primary challenges for Republicans who voted for the deal. This from The Hill: Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) might back primary challengers to incumbent Republican senators after all. DeMint had […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina The Seventh Annual Presbyterian Hospital Invitational Criterium races through uptown Charlotte. [nggallery id=172]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Revelers enjoy the 27th Annual Bon Odori Japanese traditional summer festival last weekend at the Atrium uptown. [nggallery id=171]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Thrills and spills take center stage at the Second Annual TransJam BMX Contest in uptown last weekend. [nggallery id=170]
That was quick. It took less than 24 hours for the federal government to chew through a majority of the debt-ceiling magic money Congress approved earlier this week. This from the Washington Times: U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday — the largest one-day bump in history — as the government flexed the new […]
Former N.F.L. All-Pro turned Hollywood actor Bubba Smith died Wednesday. Sometimes I catch myself wondering what classic gridiron greats like Smith would think about the game today. Not much, I imagine: too clean and not enough grit, too flash and not enough funk, too Astroturf and not enough dirt. Too much empty filler and not […]
If anybody needed further proof that the promises and assurances of grand economic development spurred by Charlotte’s half-billion-dollar McCrory Blue Line ring as hollow today as they did pre-recession, the uptown paper’s Steve Harrison delivers with this devastating catch-up of how the vaunted Scaleybark development has floundered. This should come as no surprise, least of […]
This time in Alabama, where Eric Holder & Co. are again waging war against a state trying to enforce immigration law that the federal government refuses to tackle. This from Politico: Arguing that the federal government sets immigration policy, the Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to stop Alabama’s toughest-in-the-nation law before it takes effect […]
Shocking. A survey conducted by a Gates Foundation-funded group reveals that Gates Foundation-backed and -endorsed initiatives weaving their way into Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools are … wait for it … wonderful steps in a positive direction, already being embraced by the public. In other breaking news, a poll conducted by Big Tobacco found a majority of respondents […]
Let us thank the Tea Party. Finally, a group of representatives who stand up for the taxpayers and the American Way of Life. What they have done is historical and outstanding. In the face of threats, lies, prognostications of impending financial doom and the world coming to an end, they stood their ground. An apt […]
