In his recent Jobs Bill Obama has proposed funding the legislation by reducing the charitable deduction by about 30% for taxpayers in the top income brackets. If Obama truly wants the rich to help the needy why would he discourage affluent individuals who are most inclined and able to give by reducing the charitable deduction? His budget proposal only makes sense if you understand that […]
Over recent weeks, Charlotte’s 1110 WBT radio has been promoting a contest for wannabe radio stars where entrants submit a short YouTube video outlining their idea for the station’s next Sunday evening broadcast. Over 100 entries have been received, and now it is up to fans of WBT to vote for their top ten submissions. […]
They say everything is bigger in Texas; I guess self-implosions are no exception. The scariest part about watching Rick Perry’s brutal brain freeze on stage during last night’s debate – aside, you know, from him not being able to name the three Cabinet agencies his flat tax and streamlined government would eliminate – is that […]
With all the tumult and turmoil that has roiled Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools the past year, voter turnout in the countywide at-large Board of Education race trickled in at a pitiful pace, with nearly 90 percent of registered voters opting to sit on the couch and eat Cheetos. The unofficial numbers from the elections board showed that […]
When a neighbor asked me Tuesday afternoon for tips on the best way to keep up with election results that would come rolling in later that evening, my advice was fairly simple: start drinking early and hope to pass out before things get too ugly. I should have taken my own advice. With 100 percent […]
Obama in a recent speech said if he loses in 2012, “we’re going to have a government that tells the American people, ‘you are on your own’ .” In this statement Obama has, probably unknowingly, highlighted that which chiefly defines the difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals believe that the purpose of government is to […]
Let’s start with the obvious, which in this case would be yet another possible security breach at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. This time around it involved a Nov. 1 incident of a US Airways employee “accessing airport premises by not using proper protocol,” in the vicinity of an allegedly secure baggage area. The employee has been […]
Not that it’s necessarily a slam-dunk portent of ballots yet to be cast (or boxes to be held and stuffed, for the cynics and conspiracy theorists among us), but totals from early voting in Charlotte indicate that Republicans will have their work cut our for them and ground to gain on Election Day. Of the […]
Some newspapers in North Carolina would have one think that a reorganization of the wasteful policies of Medicaid would “imperil health care for the poor.” Actually, nothing could be farther from the truth. Medicaid is a wasteful raft of policies that have little restrictions on the use of taxpayer money to pay for every ailment […]
I don’t like to bad-mouth any of the candidates (I will disagree with them on policies…), but this picture disturbs me too much. After all the research I’ve done for the last several months, I truly believe these connections. Money talks, and that’s what every one of these connections is about. As a little background, […]
