With news that Team BO has cherry picked Mayor Anthony Foxx to be the country’s next transportation secretary, two notions chug down parallel tracks: either the workload of a top-ranking federal bureaucrat is a lot cushier and less demanding than ever imagined possible, or Foxx flat-out lied to his homegrown constituents last month. That’s when […]
As local pols are working on looming 2014 budgets, I read the Gaston County budget for 2013. Certain things stand out. The first is that, unless county staff has had a change of heart, they have no intention of trying to keep taxes as low as possible but are seeking every avenue they can to increase […]
As a conservative grassroots political activist, defeat is something that just goes with the territory. That, along with a certain amount of beating one’s head against the wall wondering where in the world all the people with any common sense at all have hidden themselves. As a majority volunteer driven movement, we often find ourselves […]
What do you do when someone doesn’t want to listen to you? When it comes to the folks who decide on the HOT lane plan, it’s not a hypothetical question. HOT lanes on I-77 are the most far-reaching transportation project since the interstate was built in the 1970’s. The current plan calls for the lanes […]
eBay President John Donahoe, in a just released letter to eBay customers, invites citizens to contact Congress in opposition to the “Marketplace Fairness Act” which will require online retailers to collect state sales tax regardless of their physical presence in a particular state. Apparently not wanting to miss an opportunity for self-aggrandizement, the letter also […]
Joyce Krawiec, Grassroots Activism Chair of the NC Federation of Republican Women, announced today that she will seek the position of Vice Chair of the North Carolina Republican Party. “I have made this decision after much thoughtful and prayerful consideration, as well as encouragement from many friends and colleagues. As our Vice Chair, I would like to reach out […]
When the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre suggested using “armed guards” to protect the children in our schools, the usual anti-self protection Democrats and their shills in the “news” media immediately launched into another one of their vicious smear campaigns against LaPierre designed to change the subject and shut down any discussion or debate, even that which […]
On Monday, April 22, Charlotte City Council will vote on a proposal to grant $87.5 million of public money towards the Carolina Panthers’ plan to renovate Bank of America Stadium. The official Charlotte Tea Party (CAUTION) position on this falls in line with each and every other attempt by government to provide public funding to private, for […]
HOT lanes on I-77 is a complicated and multifaceted issue. Trying to explain it all in ten minutes to a semi-interested group is a tough thing to pull off. Yet, that was the initial time allotted for wideni77 to make their case to MUMPO. A number of citizens, at least one mayor and a State House […]
***This post was written by Dr. Dan Eichenbaum and Michael Maharrey, National Communications Director for the Tenth Amendment Center. The post originally appeared on Dr. Dan’s Freedom Forum. After the American Revolutionary War, our founders, having just thrown off the yoke of British oppression, understood that the citizens of our new nation must always retain the […]
