And that headline, unfortunately, should be taken quite literally. The Obama administration’s Department of Agriculture is shoveling out $5 million to build a “biogas anaerobic digester,” which is a fancy way of saying something that uses cow manure to help heat an ethanol plant. Pure BS, in other words; this from the Washington Examiner: Western […]
Corporate welfare isn’t just for banana republics the likes of which councilmembers routinely establish in the Queen City, doling out your hard-earned money to multi-million dollar corporations and making a mockery of any notion of a competitively level free market. The give-aways are endemic and, dare I say, widespread enough to envelope the considerable girth […]
Few Americans are old enough to remember the last time a sitting U.S. President – Franklin D. Roosevelt – publicly intimidated the Supreme Court over the outcome of a specific case under deliberation. Since FDR, Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush Dance Remix somehow all managed to make […]
Big ups to PunditHouse columnist Jeff Katz, who for the second year in a row won the Associated Press award for Best Talk Show in Boston. In addition to taking the honors for best talk show, a special Veteran’s Day broadcast of The Jeff Katz Show live from The Fisher House (on the grounds of the […]
The classic image of the Hollywood movie set features a gruff director — wearing a beret and chomping a cigar — bellowing, “Lights, camera, action!” The actors then perform their roles. In Sanford, Florida the director might shout, “Lights, camera, Sharpton!” Although Al Sharpton is a devout blowhard, let’s give the devil his due. Whenever […]
If there was ever any question about whether the school board would pass the district’s proposed $1.2 billion-plus budget buster tonight, question no more. CMS’ platinum-plated PR department has sent word from on high that it’s already a done deal. This from a media release distributed yesterday: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education meeting (Government Center, Meeting […]
In a classy and emotional speech, delivered with the historic town of Gettysburg, PA, as a backdrop, Rick Santorum today announced he was suspending his presidential campaign. Santorum started his presser with an acknowledgement that the fragile health of his daughter, Bella, prompted him to reassess the status of his campaign and how continuing it […]
And we’re off to the races. The Obama Administration has always been about firsts rather than bests. We were told that we would have the first African-American president, or the first bi-racial president depending on the crowd to whom the speech was delivered. We got the first, insert name of visible minority here, secretary of […]
Washington is awash with brains. Here are Think Tanks galore. Here are entire departments of federal agencies given over to nothing but research and analysis of how to solve our national (and local, and world) problems. PhD’s from every college in the land, perhaps world, are more than happy to drop everything to advise Washington […]
The scene that unfolded was nothing short of dumbfounding when Charlotte city staff recommended giving $9 million to the Charlotte Knights to help pay for the team’s proposed uptown stadium: Council member LaWana Mayfield asked how board members should respond if residents ask whether their taxes are going up to pay for baseball. No, Deputy […]
