The drug wars in Mexico continue to claim lives at an alarming rate, with hundreds of slayings taking place within a stone’s throw of US border states. How vicious and widespread has the mayhem become? A recent data dump from the Mexican government paints a stark picture, as detailed here by The Guardian UK. The […]
It’s official. North Carolina Republicans now have a new person carrying the conservative banner for them on a statewide basis. Former five-term NC 8th District Congressional Representative and 1996 NC Gubernatorial Candidate Robin Hayes was selected on the first ballot by the North Carolina Republican Executive Committee. Hayes will now finish out the term of […]
You might have missed this buried in all the talk about a call to returned civility in political discourse, but apparently the country’s going broke, has this little debt problem, and its Triple-A credit rating is in jeopardy – again – of being downgraded. This from The WSJ: Moody’s Investors Service said in a report […]
Hats off to the folks at the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law, who were in court this week battling corporate bribes, er, tax incentives and trying to clean up the lingering stench left by disgraced former House Speaker Jim Black. The NCICL presented oral arguments before a three-judge panel of the NC Court of Appeals, […]
Alternate Headline: Somebody Bitch-Slap Al Gore And I don’t want to hear any arguments about how cooler temperatures and blizzards are also leading indicators of global warming, and that up is really down because of the earth’s equatorial gravity pull and rotational kinematics interacting with atmospheric compression settling*. All I know is there are like […]
Before everyone starts hyperventilating and buying into the narrative being pushed wholesale by aggressively liberal Democrats and their cohorts in the mainstream media that efforts to repeal Obamacare will skyrocket the national deficit, let’s take a deep breath of sanity and consider the source: a horribly flawed Congressional Budget Office scoring of the healthcare legislation, […]
The Queen City could’ve been a contender, if only there were fines attached to our new spy-bin recycling program, similar to what they have in the Rust Belt metropolis known as Cleveland. Maybe next year – until then, here’s an enlightening list ranking some of 2010’s busiest busybodies, from CNSNews and Michelle Malkin. Making the […]
Cribbing off the Bard of Avon: an earmark by any other name would still smell as rotten. Such appears to be the case with the so-called fiscally conservative majority set to take control of Congress. You know the ones, those Republicans who were all fired up for a ban on spending earmarks. Turns out they’ve […]
I thought global warming alarmists had hit rock bottom with revelations that their research books had been cooked with faulty facts, but I was wrong. This is a new low, courtesy of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), who stoops to using Santa as a political weapon to advance a radical environmentalist agenda. This from The Huffington […]
Nancy Pelosi isn’t long as Speaker of the House. But if there’s one constant in our ever-changing world it’s that Pelosi will prove unconscionable until the gavel is wrested from her hand. During a recent speech on the House floor she expressed opinions about unemployment insurance and tax policy that seem irrational even for her. […]
