“I mean, I had a friend who said, ‘You don’t just pick the winners and losers, you pick the losers.’ This is not the kind of policy you want to have if you want to get American energy secure.” ~ Mitt Romney, during the first Presidential debate, lambasting the Obama administration for doling out billions […]
I came across a post a while ago from Dr. Michael Bitzer’s NC-Politics blog, which dealt with the contentious issue of “Sorting Our Polarized Politics.” In light of this week’s rather raucous Presidential debate, I thought it was a pertinent topic for the start of early voting in this year’s State and Federal elections and […]
To jumpstart the beginning of early voting in North Carolina, the Mecklenburg GOP hosted a rally this morning at their headquarters off of East Morehead Street. The event featured former Pennsylvania Senator and Presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Opening remarks from Mecklenburg GOP Chairman Gideon Moore, candidate for NC9 Robert Pittenger, and candidate for NC8 Richard […]
The Big One is still a few weeks away, but one-stop early voting kicks off today for folks so inclined. Think of it as fast food for democracy. On that note, is it just a coincidence that early voting starts on the same day that the City of Charlotte’s Solid Waste Services Department kicks off […]
OK ~ a double dose, actually. “… we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. I went to a number of women’s groups and said, “Can you help us find folks,” and they brought us whole binders full of women.” […]
I spent a large part of the last month recovering from a surgery post-op regime that left me floating through a hydrocodone haze, frequently unable to discern reality from drug-induced stupor. When the pain meds finally cleared my system, I thought I was good to go. So imagine my shock when I read the uptown paper’s […]
Planners. You don’t elect them. You likely don’t even know them. They sit at desks in your city and county government buildings. They sit on bureaucratic boards you didn’t elect and you don’t see. Higher up in the echelons are the unelected planners and enforcers in Washington. They are appointed for their political ideology, which […]
On Friday, October 12, House Speaker John Boehner joined fellow Congressmen Mick Mulvaney (SC5) and Patrick McHenry (NC10) as well as candidates Richard Hudson (NC8) and Robert Pittenger (NC9) at the GOP Victory HQ in Charlotte for a rally with nearly 200 supporters. PunditHouse caught the event on film in case you missed it.
In the iconic movie Goldfinger the villain, Auric Goldfinger, pursues a nefarious scheme, code-named “Operation Grand Slam,” to contaminate America’s gold horde at Fort Knox, thereby leveraging the value of his own, uncontaminated, holdings. Bond: Yes, well, I’ve worked out a few statistics of my own. 15 billion dollars in gold bullion weighs 10,500 tons. […]
Charlotte Liberty fighters went to a John Boehner event in Charlotte NC. We went to protest his complete disregard for our convention process. If you are not familiar with his teleprompter scripted answers to the vote at the conventions, please see it on the youtube link below. I was a delegate at the RNC, and […]
