North Carolina Democrats find themselves awash in turmoil swirling around allegations that the party’s executive director sexually harassed a 26-year-old male staffer, an incident that officials originally hoped could have been swept under the rug with a financial payoff and a nondisclosure agreement to keep everybody quiet. As usual, progressive liberals being progressive liberals, Democrats […]
That’s pretty good stuff, even with the Columbian (sic) in the cutline. h/t: Ricochet
In advance of Mitt Romney’s visit to Charlotte today, the local Democrat party, via Mayor Anthony Foxx, pens an op-ed for the uptown paper that argues Obama “has put America, North Carolina and Charlotte back on track.” Fair enough, assuming the track is headed in the same direction as Foxx’s multi-million dollar Faux Streetcar To […]
Remember SOPA – the Internet censorship legislation that went by the misleading moniker Stop Online Piracy Act, which was rightfully sidelined by a backlash of public protest? You didn’t really think it would be that easy, did you? Indeed, never let it be said Congress is willing to let a bad and wholly misguided idea […]
And apparently I have a raging case of the Midland flats, according to this nifty little quiz on regional accents somebody sent our way that tagged me pretty spot on: born and raised in northeastern Ohio (Youngstown, specifically, dubbed Mob Town USA back in the day, which meant I hung around folks with names like Vincencio […]
Faced with a potentially unfavorable outcome on his proposed resolution in opposition to Amendment One, Commissioners Chair Harold Cogdell this morning pulled the item from the board’s agenda to be discussed tonight. Cogdell informed his board colleagues that he would place the same resolution on the agenda of the board’s May 1 meeting. Tellingly, his […]
Senate Republicans shot down the so-called Buffett Rule taxing scheme last night with a largely party-line vote, but whether they won any long-term electoral points with the short-term victory to block debate on a measure that would have triggered a minimum effective tax rate of 30 percent for anybody earning $1 million or more a […]
Food for thought after watching your hard-earned dollars fly out the door. This from the Taxpayer’s Protection Alliance: This Tax Day, the federal government expects to rake in $945 billion in individual income tax payments from U.S. taxpayers. According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worked 32 days last year just to pay their […]
Send us a link with your favorite tunes or vids (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the mix: the ever-vigilant hal hood delivers an appropriate campaign theme song for mitt romney: the best of the rest: language flag on this one: And we’ll close like we opened, with some vintage Kinks:
UPDATE: Faced with a potentially deadlocked voted on his proposed resolution in opposition to Amendment One, Commissioners Chair Harold Cogdell this afternoon pulled the item from the board’s agenda to be discussed tonight. Cogdell informed his board colleagues that he would place the same resolution on the agenda of the board’s May 1 meeting. Tellingly, […]
