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Dim Bulb Despots
Despite a provision rolled into a year-end spending bill that blocked funding for enforcement of new light bulb efficiency standards, the twisty tyranny of bulbs will still start phasing in as scheduled on Jan. 1. The new energy law requires that incandescent light bulbs be 30 percent more efficient starting in 2012. Critics of the […]
Burr Saddles Up For Romney
Funny, I always thought Richard Burr was more politically aligned with Ron Paul. I mean, you know, when Burr wasn’t staying busy bolstering bank bailouts and deficit spending, supporting warrantless wiretapping, and playing Big Brother food cop. This from the Washington Post: Burr, a 17-year Capitol Hill veteran who served five terms in the House […]
Congratulate Mayor Foxx …
… next time you see him, on back-to-back years of double-digit increases … in HOMELESSNESS. Oh, wait – homelessness is bad – never mind. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/12/29/2882998/homelessness-among-families-up.html
Pedaling Push For DNC 2012
Charlotte is wheeling its way down a path to have a burgeoning bike-share program up and running in time for the Democratic National Convention, with an eye toward keeping the pedals churning long after the political circus leaves town. The city council’s Planning and Transportation Committee last month gave the green light to launch planning […]
BallantyneTown – “Let My People Go”
That would be the new moniker and rallying/battle cry if the brainchild of Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James, a Republican who represents, in part, the southern wilds of the county ever comes to fruition. From a mass email James launched today: Mecklenburg needs a new ‘Town of Ballantyne’ If consolidation talk won’t die; Southern residents need Town […]
CALM Down: Nanny Government Rides To The Rescue
Just in time for the New Year, the federal government earlier this month stepped up to the plate and solved that most pressing of problems plaguing modern society. This from the always vigilant comrades at the FCC: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today took a major step toward eliminating one of the most persistent problems […]
Opportunity Knocks For GOP
Can we say 2012 is a golden opportunity for the Republican Party? What case can the Democrat incumbent present for reelection? The economy is anemic and job growth remains sluggish despite announced declines in unemployment rates. Republicans have the momentum from 2010 and enjoy popular support for repealing Obama’s signature achievement: ObamaCare. Voters seem to […]
No Coincidences This Year and Next
I confess I have been naive in my political views in earlier years in my lifetime. I look back now and have a completely different perspective on world events, a perspective that is closer to reality, but still probably lacking in enough sophistication to grasp the entirety of it all. I have never been what […]
Merry Christmas
Luke 2:1-14 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up […]
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