The 2013-2014 session of the North Carolina General Assembly began on January 9th in Raleigh. For the first time in history, Republicans hold super-majorities in both the House and Senate at the same time a Republican holds the Governorship. The GOP majority on the Supreme Court, though technically non-partisan, completes the Republican dominance in the three branches […]
Mr. Morgan, You have recently garnered a degree of notoriety from recent debates regarding gun violence. But it is not applicable for Evolution X Defense as it has own pride. I read of your interview with Alex Jones, and of a White House petition to have you deported. As I channel surfed on the evening of Thursday, January […]
I spent the better part of 2008 and 2009 screaming from the rooftops this would happen. Now it is. It just took a couple of years for everyone to learn how to play their part in the game. So again, just to remind you I said over and over and over… 1) If you bought […]
North Mecklenburg saw the addition of new Republican leadership in the area this week. Monday night, former Cornelius Mayor Jeff Tarte took the oath of office to become Senator Tarte as the area’s Senator in the General Assembly. As Senator, Tarte represents the new NC Senate 41 district created as part of the last round of […]
According to a new presentation from the Bipartisan Policy Center, if Congress fails to increase the debt ceiling the US government will default on its debt somewhere around February 15th. Following that, the government would be forced to make payments based solely on revenue (tax payments). This is exactly what the Republicans in Congress SAY […]
Albert Jay Nock, in his “Theory of American Education,” described a good education in the 1890s: After the three R’s, or rather for a time in company with them, his staples were Latin, Greek, and mathematics. He took up the elements of these two languages very early, and continued at them, with arithmetic and algebra, nearly all the […]
Two cases of star gazing paint a fairly vivid picture of just how far into the lunacy lair our fair country’s leaders have wandered. First up, how about a little rehashed chatter of imperial ecstasy to kick off The One’s would-be penultimate term: New York Democratic Rep. Jose Serrano reintroduced a bill in Congress on Friday to […]
Hey Media Folks, you can all go cover other stories rather than Gov. Pat McCrory. WRAL has announced it will track every promise made by newly-sworn-in McCrory on its website. Which is sort of odd because I thought the media was already supposed to keep track of promises made, kept, and broken by elected leaders. This […]
The Republican-led House of Representatives has passed a bill to increase the deficit $9.7 billion. Why did they do this? Because the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is broke. The NFIP is a federally run program that allows individuals, businesses, and municipalities to purchase insurance policies in flood prone areas where private insurance companies REFUSE […]
There’s an urban legend besetting the urbane that capitalism is a system of privilege designed for the Ebenezer Scrooges of the world. Not so. Capitalism works at least as well for us Bob Cratchits as it does for misers, probably better. Capitalism is the only proven mechanism by which the workers of the world may […]
