The day following Vince Coakley’s announcement as a Republican candidate for US Congress from District 12, he has a challenger. Brad Craver is likely the first of many who will seek the Democratic nomination for this heavily Democrat district. His stated “moderation” would stand in stark contrast to the former occupant of the seat, Mel […]
Vince Coakley joined over 30 supporters who braved the snowy weather to attend a special announcement at the Dilworth Neighborhood Grille on January 28. This was the final stop in a 6 stop tour where after months of speculation, Coakley made it known he was, in fact, running for Congress from the 12th District of […]
Prior to the first meeting of the North Carolina Common Core Study Committee, NC legislators received hordes of emails from activists attempting to emphasize just how horrendous the standards are by including egregious examples from curriculum handouts now popping up from around the nation because of Common Core. However, it was made clear to legislators […]
Editor’s note: This post originated on the Facebook page of Mark Gibbons, activist and member of Lake Norman Conservatives. Last fall saw a very energetic election cycle in North Mecklenburg. One issue seemed to dominate the talk, the signs, and the internet, HOT lanes. Sadly, instead of uniting conservatives / Republicans against a big government […]
Friday, the RNC passed a packet of sweeping rule amendments. There were 9 votes against. All other committee members’ votes went in favor of the rule changes, as the votes in opposition were subtracted from the entire number of committee members in order to calculate the affirmative vote total. From witness accounts, the opposition votes […]
This is crazy. In order to keep increasing “economic growth,” China has been building massive cities. But these cities are deserted. “Glaring evidence that this consumer culture has been grossly overestimated.”
The Charlotte City Council will be asked to approve spending $12 million at tonight’s City Council meeting. The reason? To reach 65% completion of the design phase for the CityLYNX Gold Line..ie, the streetcar. This is the level of “local investment” that will be seen by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) as a commitment to the project by the […]
Americans have never had less economic freedom than they do right now. The 2014 Index of Economic Freedom has just been released, and it turns out that the level of economic freedom in the United States has now fallen for seven consecutive years. But of course none of us need a report or a survey […]
Sometimes the best way to make very complicated things, such as the US federal budget, more comprehensible is to try to compare it to something you might be more comfortable with such as ‘spending per capita’. Or more precisely: ‘How much is being spent for every man, woman and child in America today?’ Note this […]
The anecdote goes, 99% of lawyers make the other 1% look bad. There is a reason for the anecdote and a local story points it out. Most of us are aware of the problems Target has had with hackers. Seventy and up to 100 million people have had their account information taken. Target has done much […]
