The City of Charlotte is plugged into a contract that requires paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for streetlights that don’t work, leaving taxpayers zapped with a high-voltage shock to the pocketbook. On any given week up to 10 percent of the city’s 80,000 streetlights are inoperable, usually the result of something as […]
Last Wednesday, Occupy Wall Street, known at Twitter as #OWS, surged, thanks to a boost from MoveOn.org, to 15,000 souls. That same day, former White House Green Jobs Czar Van Jones rallied hundreds at the Capitol. Smaller demonstrations have been reported in 50 cities. Also on Wednesday the Heritage Foundation commenced an effort to tackle […]
Unemployment, abortion rates, child-birth out of wedlock, high school drop-out rates and poverty levels have all skyrocketed in the black communities as a direct result of big-government entitlement programs implemented by the Democratic Party beginning in the 1960s. Shhhhh … that is a dirty little secret the far-left doesn’t want Americans to know. And they […]
There are those who decry capitalism for its faults and propensities to reward some at the expense of others. There are others who, more accurately, say what we have in the US is crony capitalism, which is not to be confused with true capitalism. The gaming to lure Continental Tire’s new plant to North Carolina […]
Anwar al-Awlaki’s death has stirred an interesting debate. Can we celebrate his departure as one less al-Qaeda operative? Or, should we lament the killing of an American citizen abroad as another step on the slippery slope toward domestic tyranny? The slippery slope argument doesn’t lack precedent. Governments are notorious for targeting their own citizens. Nazi […]
Send us a link with your favorite tunes or vids (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the rotation. Kicking things off we have guest House DJs Jason Slone, with a classic from Rush, and proud new papa Adam Love with some old school Blues Brothers. I couldn’t resist a matching set:
For the acronym-challenged reader, that headline translates as Board of County Commissioners: We Love You Atlantic Coast Conference. To the tune of a quarter of a million dollars, no less, which is how much taxpayer loot commissioners doled out this week to help score some image-branding points and economic development jolt supposedly tied to the […]
The former Minnesota Vikings star quarterback scores with a persuasive argument in favor of performance pay for teachers. This from The WSJ: Imagine the National Football League in an alternate reality. Each player’s salary is based on how long he’s been in the league. It’s about tenure, not talent. The same scale is used for […]
In a newly released campaign video for his not-yet-a-campaign gubernatorial campaign, former Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory announced he wouldn’t be making an announcement until next year to announce his candidacy for governor. The non-announcement announcement has something to do with campaigns being too long and expensive, from what I could gather. This from a man […]
At least according to Gallup, which found in a recent poll that “two-thirds of Americans have a great deal or fair amount of confidence in their local governments to handle local problems, and a solid majority the same way about their state government.” So how do those confidence and trust numbers hold up for Char-Meck […]
