Ron Paul made his farewell speech yesterday to the House of Representatives. Nailed it in the first 10 minutes: “In spite of my efforts, the government has grown exponentially, taxes remain excessive, and a prolific increase of incomprehensible regulations continues. Wars are constant and pursued without Congressional declaration; deficits rise to the sky; poverty is […]
A few years back the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority put its handsomely paid brain trust to work and crafted the genius slogan “Charlotte’s got a lot” to market the Queen City as a tourist destination. Cute, no? A Lot in ChArLOTte? And the marketing wizards who gin up this stuff are pulling down insanely high […]
Cutting through all the head scratching, number crunching, moaning, groaning and gnashing of teeth coming from the GOP trying to figure out what went wrong at the polls this week, Ron Paul cuts to the chase and puts it in stark perspective. This from his interview with Bloomberg TV: “If you look at the numbers […]
Less than 24 hours after voters with a conservative bent help the GOP not only retain but expand its sway in both houses of the N.C. General Assembly, and put a Republican in the governor’s mansion to boot, we’re treated to this for the effort: Republicans bent on lower taxes and smaller government might be […]
No shocker here, as former Queen City boy mayor Pat McCrory had amassed a huge campaign war chest and was running against an opponent tied at the hip to the most unpopular governor in the nation. Still, give McCrory credit for not fumbling what nearly every pundit predicted would be a cakewalk into the end […]
Official unofficial results: Obama snags 303 electoral votes; Romney tallies 206. The popular vote shows Obama at 50% (59,631,659) and Romney at 48% (57,001,726) ~ a spread of just over two million votes. Meanwhile, we will still have House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and a looming fiscal cliff. This from the […]
There were two, um, high notes from last night; maybe it’s time to move to Colorado or Washington. This from CNN: Voters in Washington and Colorado passed ballot initiatives Tuesday to legalize marijuana for recreational use, the biggest victory ever for the legalization movement. “The significance of these events cannot be understated,” said NORML, a […]
For a devastating perspective on how Sandy literally shifted the contours of the eastern coastline, William Teach over at Pirate’s Cove points to Google’s crisis map, which uses pre- and post-Sandy imagery to track the storm’s coastal damage from New York to Virginia. In the Google page’s right sidebar, click the ‘Post-Sandy Imagery’ checkbox and […]
The Mecklenburg Republican Party found itself in an awkward position last month, when it had to revise its official 2012 Voter Guide that included a candidate who had posted upwards of 4,000 messages on a white supremacist website. Thousands of the MeckGOP Voter Guides that were printed and distributed originally listed Doug Hanks as the […]
