Here’s the Democrats’ take on the economy, courtesy of party chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us […]
A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) today filed a federal lawsuit against President Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, seeking to prevent the administration from using U.S. funds for military action in Libya. The White House, which was already prepping a report to Congress to […]
A little bit of everything and a whole lot a wicked good for this week’s House Party. Send us a youtube link of your favorite tunes or vids (editor@pundithouse.com) and wel’ll work them into the mix. First up, a theme song tribute for politicians, from guest House DJ Jim Hill: Along with some lessons in […]
From the brilliant battlers of global warming comes the latest nugget of wisdom to save the planet by – killing camels? This from TIME: As Australia struggles to get out from under its status as the world’s largest carbon emitter per capita, at least one company has sensed an opportunity. Under the nation’s Carbon Farming […]
Winston Churchill, from his commencement address at the Harrow School, London, 1941, words and advice that ring eternal: You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than […]
Let’s all agree that Anthony Weiner is a duplicitous, self-aggrandizing narcissist and a seriously deranged, habitual tweetvert. Think it’s safe to say there’s not much argument there. But in the grand scheme of political and moral transgressions, which is worse: lying about a freakish sexting jones, or lying about multiple financial catastrophes that threaten to […]
Less than a day after Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools snagged a $26-million budget bump from the board of commissioners’ Democrat majority, which fretted that providing less would leave to a massive layoffs of teachers – because, you know, Superintendent Peter Gorman and the school board said so – CMS announced that $30 million from the state had […]
Mayor Anthony Foxx is stomping his feet and gnashing teeth that a $25,000 audit of the CRVA conducted by the CRVA with PricewaterhouseCoopers tagging along for the ride, has produced little but empty words. Literally. The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority today released a two-and-a-half page missive, penned by a CRVA board member, that is supposed […]
After five years at the helm of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Peter Gorman today announced his resignation, effective Aug. 15, as he heads to greener pastures with the Education Division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation as its newly minted senior vice president, according to this press release. Gee, give a guy an extra $26M and you get […]
It was only a few months ago that the county manager and budget director openly acknowledged that Mecklenburg could not afford the government it has. So naturally, the Democrat majority on the board of county commissioners, with a party line vote Tuesday night, approved a budget that grows government by upward of $70 million. The […]
