*From our friends at Grassroots North Carolina. At the request of North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture Steve Troxler, GRNC representatives today met with the commissioner and his legal counsel after his police chief for the state fairgrounds, Joel Keith, began telling people the information from McLeod Brock for the North Carolina State Fair would be posted […]
*This article was a special to the Charlotte Observer by our friends Adam Smith and Stewart Dompe, professors of economics at Johnson & Wales University. We hope to add them as regular contributors here at PunditHouse. In October, the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on a dispute between the Federal Trade Commission and the […]
Ex-mayor Patrick Cannon gives us the sad example of what we must fear from government: quid pro quo. Mr. Cannon did no more than what can be expected from many people; he became friendly with those he did business with. More importantly, and what is missing from his case, those who did business with him […]
Common Americans United to Inspire Our Nation (CAUTION) welcomed Kurt Naas of WidenI77 to this past Monday’s meeting to give the anti-HOT lane presentation his group has been sharing in contrast to the NCDOT’s and elected officials’ positions on the matter. There has been news of late regarding roads funding including revelations that Governor McCrory […]
Hat’s off to the Mecklenburg County Young Republicans. Last night, September 23, the organization conducted its second annual “Liberty Night”…an opportunity for the more small “l” libertarian crowd within its ranks to set the agenda and have a discussion on issues important to them. The speaker at last night’s event was former Senate candidate Dr. […]
Before this week, I figured that the race to the intellectual bottom for Republican consultants would have been a doggoned close contest. For years I’ve written many columns — and a book — that laid bare the cognitive dissonance and record of embarrassing losses of such wizards as Karl Rove, Haley (and Henry) Barbour, Rick Tyler, Andrea Saul, Charlie […]
Charlotte, NC – September 22, 2014 – CAUTION, the organizational arm of the Charlotte Tea Party, announced today that it is calling on the Charlotte Observer to retract an article by Barbara Schreiber published in the Friday edition of the paper entitled, “Willie Little Takes on TEA Party, Klan in Exhibition“. The article promotes a local […]
Because our lives are short, we tend to see history as a linear progression of events, evolving from what we personally know from our own past, that we then project into the future. Historians and students of history, however, understand that history is cyclical. The linear progression we see for ourselves is only a small […]
Things are beginning to get downright weird on the road to signing the final-final-we-really-mean-it -this-time contract with Cintra on the I77 HOT Lanes project. We’re not sure if this is a sign that some are getting antsy about going through with such a bad and unpopular idea, or if this is just a consequence of a long and […]
Newsletter for September 15, 2014 Hello! Please join us at CAUTION on Monday, September 15, as we welcome guest speaker Ed Mattson. As always, we meet at the Dilworth Neighborhood Grille located at 911 East Morehead Street in Charlotte at 5pm for our social hour and from 6-7:30 for our meeting. Mattson is a published author […]
