Common Americans United to Inspire OUR Nation (CAUTION) announced today that the organization is actively encouraging its members and fellow citizens to participate in the May 29, 2012 Public Hearing on the Preliminary FY2013 Operating Budget and FY2013-2017 Capital Investment Plan. The plan as proposed by the City Manager includes an 8.2% property tax increase […]
Most of you by now have heard Tim Newman, former CEO of the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, was arrested for drunk driving after a hit and run accident on I-77. What a colorful and privileged life he has had. After a list of improprieties he had to step down from his $300,000+ job as CEO […]
Yesterday our illustrious Vice President, Joseph Robinette Biden, attended an ultra-swanky fundraiser that we the people could have attended for $10,000 a plate at Erskine Bowels middle class McMansion. There were dozens of law enforcement, Secret Service and conveniently scheduled utility repairmen, all of whom were very courteous and professional. I went with a few of the local Tea […]
Some food for thought about the direction our country is headed, if it hasn’t already reached a truly disturbing destination. This from BuzzFeed: An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned. The amendment would “strike the current ban on […]
This week’s public hearing for the county manager’s recommended budget unfolded as predicted, with scores of teachers and education advocates packing the government center to pressure commissioners into providing additional funding to cover proposed pay raises for teachers. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teachers, who have seen their salaries frozen since 2008, had the right message but the […]
The Libertarian Party of Mecklenburg County (LPMeck) held its May meeting last night in uptown Charlotte. Tim Doran, Chair, opened the meeting by encouraging attendees to support, volunteer for and promote the Libertarian gubernatorial candidate, Barbara Howe, the LP presidential candidate, Gary Johnson to ensure that they receive 2% of the vote and LPNC maintains […]
President Obama’s reelection campaign is ramping up its presence on North Carolina airwaves with a new ad focused on veterans and the military: In other news: “40,000” – Approximate permanent population of Ft. Bragg, N.C. in the 2010 Census. “14,177” — Barack Obama’s margin of victory in North Carolina in the 2008 presidential election. President Obama and […]
Following up Tim Nerenz’s column regarding the War on Intoxicant Choice comes news of Obama’s “humane” drug war. This from Reason: At 5:30 a.m. on May 10, armed men broke into the bedroom of Kirk Kyle Farrar’s 12 year-old daughter and shook her awake. The men led her downstairs at gunpoint and forced her to […]
That’s the takeaway from a new SurveyUSA poll of 524 likely voters that shows Obama trailing Mitt Romney, albeit by the slimmest of margins (45% to 44% with 6% undecided) and well within the margin of error range. That’s a significant shift from only a month ago, when a WRAL News survey of registered voters […]
Imagine if someone had come to President Richard Nixon in 1970 and said, “Here is a plan to reduce the national debt by $1 trillion, reduce the gang population by 1.2 million, reduce violent crime by 90%, prevent 37 million citizens from becoming felons, save our inner cities, maintain strong black families, and prevent civil […]
