It’s taken entirely way too long, but finally a responsible government body (I know, it’s very much the oxymoron, but stick with me here) has stood up to voice legitimate concerns and demand realistic projections for an astonishingly pricey rail-transit project. It happened this week when the Iredell Board of County Commissioners unanimously voted to […]
The GOP debate in New Hampshire, which might have been one of the best educational lessons on political philosophy and constitutional interpretation you may see this year, repeatedly brought up the question of: ‘Who is the TRUE conservative?’ in this bunch. To answer that question, we think you have to go back to the Founders. […]
A heads-up for our readers: PunditHouse will be participating in an Internet blackout on Wednesday, Jan. 18, to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) – two pieces of legislation that would effectively allow the government to censor the Internet. While SOPA was dealt a blow this week when […]
With the Bureau of Labor Statistics(BLS) announcement that over 200,000 jobs were created in December, the main stream media has taken to reporting the favorable opinions of administration officials and politicians that fell mostly into the “stay the course” and the “ we’re on the right track” type of comments. Lacking from the reports was […]
Here are a couple of articles from 1st Freedom (NRA’s magazine) showing the arrogance of the administration. The second piece (with chronology of events) shows how some democrats in the administration are using their own failed program as justification for additional regulations. This program and Attorney General Holder’s behavior is so egregious that 30+ Democrat […]
Commissioner Jennifer Roberts might not be at the head of the table anymore, but tax increases seem to be the order of the day unless what we are reading is leaving something out. County officials are working on a scheme to levy a new tax. They call it a “new funding vehicle for delivery of […]
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A group of about 40 residents from south Mecklenburg, including County Commissioner Bill James and City Councilmember Warren Cooksey, huddled this week to discuss the possibility of Ballantyne and a swath of suburbia breaking from Charlotte to form its own city. And folks from Mecklenburg’s southern suburbs, it turns out, aren’t the only ones contemplating […]
The discussions this week over the constitutionality of the presidential “recess” appointments have revolved around whether the Senate was in recess or not. In actuality, the “recess” issue is irrelevant to the question of constitutionality. For the purposes of this discussion, let us take the President’s position and assume that the Senate was in recess. […]
It’s one of the more aggressively militant and radical advocates for open borders and total amnesty for illegal immigrants, so naturally, in a presidential election year when the incumbent One will be seriously pandering to the Hispanic vote, La Raza’s former senior vice president and chief lobbyist has been appointed director of the … wait […]
