President Obama’s reelection campaign is ramping up its presence on North Carolina airwaves with a new ad focused on veterans and the military: In other news: “40,000” – Approximate permanent population of Ft. Bragg, N.C. in the 2010 Census. “14,177” — Barack Obama’s margin of victory in North Carolina in the 2008 presidential election. President Obama and […]
Following up Tim Nerenz’s column regarding the War on Intoxicant Choice comes news of Obama’s “humane” drug war. This from Reason: At 5:30 a.m. on May 10, armed men broke into the bedroom of Kirk Kyle Farrar’s 12 year-old daughter and shook her awake. The men led her downstairs at gunpoint and forced her to […]
That’s the takeaway from a new SurveyUSA poll of 524 likely voters that shows Obama trailing Mitt Romney, albeit by the slimmest of margins (45% to 44% with 6% undecided) and well within the margin of error range. That’s a significant shift from only a month ago, when a WRAL News survey of registered voters […]
Pat McCrory took a lot of heat during his last gubernatorial bid for being sluggish in response to attack ads launched by the Bev Perdue camp. Looks like the former Charlotte mayor isn’t taking any chances this time around, going so far as filing a complaint with the FCC about a new ad Democrats are […]
I guess when you have America’s first gay president – crowned on the cover of Newsweek, no less, with a multi-colored halo – it was only a matter of time until the first openly gay superhero followed. That’s the direction DC Comics appears headed, with reports that one of its major characters is coming out […]
Bringing new meaning to, um, stimulus funding is this tale from San Francisco, where researchers were awarded upwards of $1.5 million in federal stimulus money for “studies into the erectile dysfunction of overweight middle aged men and the accurate reporting of someone’s sexual history.” NBC Bay Area talked to the University of California at San […]
US Airways unwittingly foiled an annual taxpayer-funded boondoggle from unfolding this weekend, when one of its jets developed mechanical problems and forced the cancellation of the Charlotte Chambers’ planned Inter-City Visit to London. The chamber’s annual trip, in which business leaders pick up their own tab for the junket and taxpayers foot the freight for […]
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Three strikes and you’re out in baseball; here’s hoping the same standard applies to presidential politics, where Congress tossed yet another major league curveball past an Obama-crafted budget, leaving The One smarting from an 0-for-3 shutout. This from The Hill: A budget resolution based on President Obama’s 2013 budget failed to get any votes in […]
Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones might want to steer clear of Las Vegas, where people who make wild wagers are gobbled up faster than a cheap buffet. As part of the $1.4 billion county budget recommendation Jones rolled out this week, he included a $9.1 million funding increase for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. A hefty chunk of […]
