The Time Has Come!! Early voting is over and Election Day is TOMORROW!! As we head for the final lap, there are some positive trends in early voting. Using Civitas’ Carolina Transparency Vote Tracker system, we can do some comparisons of early voting totals from the same timeframe in 2008. NC Statewide: Total Turnout was up 114,846. […]
North Carolina Senator Elect Jeff Tarte hosted a fundraiser at the Peninsula Club in Cornelius on October 30. Pictures by Glen Simmons of Event Images Carolina. [nggallery id=60]
World War Two would not have started without media corruption in Germany. Its most trusted broadcaster betrayed the public and became a tool of the government. His story offers every American a powerful insight into the role of media and methods of governing today. Will we heed this compelling lesson from history?
You’re not the only one ready for the election to be over. Four-year-old Abigael Evans got picked up from a long day at her Colorado pre-K school. Her mother, Elizabeth Evans, 27, turned on NPR in the car. The coverage resulted in this: Yes, Abigael, sometimes NPR coverage does the same thing to me. Completely understandable. Once I […]
For a devastating perspective on how Sandy literally shifted the contours of the eastern coastline, William Teach over at Pirate’s Cove points to Google’s crisis map, which uses pre- and post-Sandy imagery to track the storm’s coastal damage from New York to Virginia. In the Google page’s right sidebar, click the ‘Post-Sandy Imagery’ checkbox and […]
The Wall Street Journal, upon the release of the most recent annual GDP growth figure of 2% (up from 1.3% in the previous quarter), observes: The economy plowed ahead at a 2% growth rate in the third quarter, which thrilled more than a few of our liberal friends who think it’s enough to re-elect President Obama. […]
The Mecklenburg Republican Party found itself in an awkward position last month, when it had to revise its official 2012 Voter Guide that included a candidate who had posted upwards of 4,000 messages on a white supremacist website. Thousands of the MeckGOP Voter Guides that were printed and distributed originally listed Doug Hanks as the […]
I find it rather hypocritical – when it’s Republicans (Rob Bryan) receiving the money (http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/11/01/3636212/mecklenburgs-nc-house-races-draw.html) it’s buying the election; when it’s Democrats (Linda Coleman) the crickets chirp!!
