Heading into a gubernatorial race against an opponent tied to the hip of an incredibly unpopular lame duck governor and a state Democrat Party that has become a local and national laughingstock for ridicule, you’d think it would be an easy ride to victory for Republican Pat McCrory. You’d be wrong. The latest polling from […]
Discouragingly spot-on: h/t: Terry Mcintyre, whose Facebook thread always contains some golden nuggets.
Who’s your mama? The answer might surprise you. I know you think that the lovely lady who carried you in utero for about nine months and then powdered your bottom and fed you is the woman you should send a card to, but the reality is that this year you should address all of your […]
On Tuesday evening, residents upset over City Manager Curt Walton’s budget and capital investment plan flooded the Government Center to express their discontent over the 8.2% property tax increase called for by the plan. Despite overwhelming opposition by those in attendance at the public hearing, and foreshadowed by some rather disingenuous commentary by Mayor Foxx […]
Is this election a defining moment in United States history? It certainly seems so. On one side we have Barack Obama. On the other we have Mitt Romney. What choice could be more disparate? Certainly Ron Paul would be more adamant about reducing the size of government and its influence in our lives, but this […]
This from ABC News: Which helps explain this from Politico: Not to be outdone, our uptown paper serves up this duo of headers that ran on the same day: Just sayin’
In their latest effort to secure a minor league baseball stadium for uptown, city staff has tossed out a major league curveball with enough taxing twists to apparently sucker a majority of city councilmembers into taking a swing at a bad pitch. City staff claims its latest proposal strips any property tax loot from an […]
Incoming CMS Superintendent Heath “Pete Repeat” Morrison says his first priority is to reach out and engage the public; so naturally, Morrison rolled out his vaunted 100-Days Entry Plan last week with a Friday afternoon document dump when most people had already checked out for the Memorial Day weekend. This guy should fit right in […]
This past Memorial Day provided some great opportunities to understand exactly what our heroes have done for us. My oldest boy, a proud Boy Scout, served on the color guard for a number of Memorial Day events. He and his fellow scouts also stood outside of our local supermarket and sold poppies to raise funds […]
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” What about corporations? Apparently, some corporations are more equal than others, or perhaps some are “people” whereas others aren’t. It depends on how an individual corporation’s political twig is bent. A federal judge recently issued an injunction against a Texas law that […]
