The biggest political fallout from the recently approved debt-deal might still be lurking down the road, with conservative Tea Party Congressional leaders rumbling about lining up primary challenges for Republicans who voted for the deal. This from The Hill: Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) might back primary challengers to incumbent Republican senators after all. DeMint had […]
That was quick. It took less than 24 hours for the federal government to chew through a majority of the debt-ceiling magic money Congress approved earlier this week. This from the Washington Times: U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday — the largest one-day bump in history — as the government flexed the new […]
Former N.F.L. All-Pro turned Hollywood actor Bubba Smith died Wednesday. Sometimes I catch myself wondering what classic gridiron greats like Smith would think about the game today. Not much, I imagine: too clean and not enough grit, too flash and not enough funk, too Astroturf and not enough dirt. Too much empty filler and not […]
If anybody needed further proof that the promises and assurances of grand economic development spurred by Charlotte’s half-billion-dollar McCrory Blue Line ring as hollow today as they did pre-recession, the uptown paper’s Steve Harrison delivers with this devastating catch-up of how the vaunted Scaleybark development has floundered. This should come as no surprise, least of […]
This time in Alabama, where Eric Holder & Co. are again waging war against a state trying to enforce immigration law that the federal government refuses to tackle. This from Politico: Arguing that the federal government sets immigration policy, the Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to stop Alabama’s toughest-in-the-nation law before it takes effect […]
Shocking. A survey conducted by a Gates Foundation-funded group reveals that Gates Foundation-backed and -endorsed initiatives weaving their way into Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools are … wait for it … wonderful steps in a positive direction, already being embraced by the public. In other breaking news, a poll conducted by Big Tobacco found a majority of respondents […]
Jeff Taylor – Meck Deck’s guerilla blogging guru for the last six years – splits town this weekend for greener pastures in Cobb County, GA, where we hear they’re trying to steamroll through a $2B light-rail boondoggle; so he should feel right at home, in a sort of twisted, déjà vu kind of way. Taylor’s […]
As Mayor Anthony Foxx was busying fundraising a record $532,000 to stock his campaign war chest, the Charlotte-area unemployment rate was continuing its sobering trajectory, climbing to 11.2 percent in June from 10.4 percent in May. Ironically, one of the area’s hardest hit by the city’s unemployment woes is one of Foxx’s big constituencies – […]
Two new developments are turning up the heat on claims long made by global warming alarmists, indicating that their dire warnings of imminent doom for Gaia run contrary to actual scientific data, or were wholly fabricated out of thin air. First up, new NASA satellite data that shows “the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more […]
As the N.C. General Assembly was wrapping up Thursday afternoon to adjourn its session, state lawmakers approved new election lines for the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, based on a map drawn by Republican members of a bipartisan citizens advisory committee tasked with creating redistricting plans for commissioners to consider. Democrats are howling with outrage […]
