Raintree Country Club in south Charlotte was packed last week with a crowd of more than 50 concerned citizens who attended the most recent meeting of SMART (South Mecklenburg Alliance of Responsible Taxpayers) and SPARK Educational Performances (Strategic Partners for Accountability and Reform of Key Educational Performances). Tim Timmerman of SMART led the meeting and […]
In virtually every airport bookstore in America right now you will find a little sleeper of a book in the business section which is as riveting as a thriller and as hard to put down. James Rickards Currency Wars made this reader remember what Secretary of the Navy John Lehman so vividly told Tom Clancy […]
Wasting money is currently a government function. That, of course, is an opinion. There are too many who, being on the receiving end of the wasteful spending, do not consider it waste at all. They like getting money for nothing. For generations now, the list of recipients has grown each year until we are at […]
Aside from being a flagrant misogynist, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz is also a serial cheerleader for big union labor. Schultz likes to play at being a regular man of the working class in his support of their cause. He particularly likes to excoriate the evil, rich one-percenters who rake in bucks by gaming the system through […]
A few hundred years into the Christian era, the merger of the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church blurred the lines between church and state; it corrupted both, injured one and killed the other. Thomas Jefferson didn’t have to be genius to figure this one out; he just needed to be moderately well-read. The […]
Once a conspiracy theory takes root nothing deters its adherents. Evidence contrary to the speculation is summarily dismissed as another brick in the conspirer’s wall of secrecy. Thus, the plot thickens. Now that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has released details questioning the birth certificate Obama produced last year, birthers could become revitalized. While Arpaio’s […]
There are plenty of stories about Mitt Romney putting his foot in his own mouth. Some of these linguistic misadventures are the result of some careful editing; some from the strategic removal of context; and then there are those times where Romney just can’t help himself. I don’t begrudge Romney any of his millions and […]
In 2009 Vice President Joe Biden joined Henrik Fisker for a televised announcement that the Department of Energy would loan Fisker Automotive, Inc. $529 million to manufacture a new, energy efficient, plug-in hybrid car. Biden told a Delaware audience that the federal loan to Fisker Automotive was seed money that would return “billions and billions and […]
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A plan to save struggling public broadcast station WTVI is drawing lousy ratings from County Manager Harry Jones, who calls the proposal “a government-funded bailout of a failed business model.” The station, which last year ran a deficit of about $300,000 and has seen fundraising tumble, has been pushing a proposal that would have it […]
