If you’re looking for evidence of how incredibly screwed up and bass-ackward Mecklenburg County’s criminal justice system has become, search no further than today’s Meck Deck, where Jeff Taylor digs up the ugly disparity in bonds meted out by the same judge for the infamous pen-bomb mom ($50K) and an accused rapist ($5K). Wonderful.
Starting off with one that goes out to all the tax-and-spend, big-government incumbents, come Nov. 2. This is Ray Charles: Followed up with some Happy Halloween wishes from White Zombie:
That’s a lot of acronyms and none of them bode well for the Obama Administration. A draft report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which charged that the Department of Justice tried to cover-up the extensive involvement of high-level political officials in the dismissal of voter-intimidation lawsuit brought against the New Black Panther Party, […]
County commissioners last week approved the officially adopted budget for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, but not without some unexpected squabbling that started and ended with Commissioner Vilma Leake. Leake, a Democrat, was irked that CMS officials and her own board colleagues have never attended a meeting of an ad hoc committee, chaired by Leake, designed to facilitate […]
The same stone-broke board of education that insists it must close schools because the district simply has no money somehow found enough to award more than $1 million in contract extensions to top executives Tuesday night, hours before the board called in armed police to clear the government center’s meeting chamber of audience members protesting […]
Turns out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn’t quite delivered on the promise she made in 2007, when she vowed that under her fiscal watch there would be “no new deficit spending.” Of course, she only missed it by $5 trillion, or so. This from CNS News: Pelosi has served as speaker in the 110th and […]
Alternate Headline: Making Stuff Up As They Go Along. Seriously, how else to explain the eleventh-hour, complete about-face Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is pulling with the latest revision to its ongoing Case for Continuous Upheaval? Schools Chief Peter Gorman and top CMS staff now say they plan to close Harding High School, instead of Waddell. The details […]
The whole frickin’ thing; all 570 rooms, along with its entire banquette hall and restaurant, plus hundreds of more rooms at other luxury hotels throughout Mumbai, to better accommodate the enormous entourage and security detail that will be accompanying The Chosen One on his trip to India next month. This from The Times of India: […]
A slate of great requests for this week’s House Party, leading off with one from Mary Ann Christian: a dedication going out to Moe Tucker, former Velvet Underground drummer, for her Tea Party activism, as reported here (a great read, worth your time). Followed up by The Mavericks, submitted by House Guest DJ Adam Love: […]
A distinct possibility if what’s unfolding in Washington state ever makes its way to James’ county commission district in suburban south Mecklenburg. It’s apparently become acceptable and standard practice these days in the ultra-left state of Washington to have illegal aliens canvassing neighborhoods for votes to support liberal Democrat candidates. This from CNSNews: When Maria […]
