Mecklenburg Commissioner Neil Cooksey has put up a champion’s battle against pancreatic cancer since early 2010; this week we learn that after complications from surgery last month, Neil has decided to discontinue treatment and enter hospice. “It has been my honor and privilege to serve the people of Mecklenburg County these past few years,” he […]
Replace ‘rose’ with ‘tax’ and ‘sweet’ with ‘rotten’ and – well, you get the idea: And from Forbes: ObamaCare’s 7 Tax Hikes On Under $250,000-A-Year Earners No. 1. The Individual Mandate Excise Tax. Starting in 2014, anyone not buying “qualifying” health insurance must pay an income tax surtax. It goes up each year until 2016 […]
It was obscured somewhat by the shadow of yesterday’s ruling on Obamacare, but the U.S. House of Representatives made history of its own, voting to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. It was the first time a sitting member of a president’s cabinet has ever been slapped with that sanction by the […]
Chief Justice John Roberts, the SCOTUS with the allegedly most-est conservative leanings, sided with the Supremes liberal left today in upholding a large bulk of President Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act. This from Fox News: In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled as constitutional the so-called individual mandate requiring most Americans to obtain health insurance […]
What happens if you throw a party and nobody comes? Charlotte might learn the hard way, as the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is now proactively encouraging candidates facing reelection to steer clear of Barack Obama’s coronation in BanksterTown USA: The Democrat charged with trying to win back the House majority is telling […]
Organizers for the Democratic National Convention have announced that their big Labor Day shindig is relocating from Charlotte Motor Speedway to uptown Charlotte. The local host committee, along with the usual uptown lunch bunch crowd, is desperately trying to spin the move as a way to provide both easier logistics and also create “an experience that […]
Mayor Anthony Foxx this afternoon vetoed the budget floated by six councilmembers that would have included a 2.44-cent tax increase to fund a $657 million capital plan without $119 million for Foxx’s coveted Streetcar to Nowhere. The council approved that budget with a 6-4 vote (James Mitchell, absent) and Foxx promptly whipped out the veto […]
There was a disturbingly fascinating juxtaposition of links over at Memeorandum late Sunday night that gives chilling insight not only to the Obama administration’s abject shortcomings in the realm of foreign policy, but also its stunning tone deafness to political perceptions and realities: The perspective from Congressman West: A year ago there were those of […]
That was Mayor Anthony Foxx before he became Mayor Anthony Foxx, back in 2009 when he was running around the campaign trail promising everything to everybody. Here’s the money quote in context, via a clip* from the uptown paper that was reposted at the time on the Black Political Buzz blog: Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony […]
Shoot us a link with your favorite tunes (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the rotation. A four-shot as we wade into summer:
