Or so says Fed chief Ben Bernanke, declaring that another round of frenzied government spending might be necessary to keep the economy afloat because the most recent round of frenzied government spending – i.e. the Fed floating $600 billion in so-called “quantitative easing” a.k.a. QE2 – might not have done the trick. This from POLITICO: […]
Who is Gloria Pace King? What has she done to obtain her 15 minutes of infamy? Actually, nothing that any other local CEO hasn’t done. WIth the permission and endorsement of her board of directors, she paid herself a lot of money. So far so good. Nothing the Kens or Hughs of Charlotte haven’t done […]
It’s come to this. Big Brother Government, with a nanny state fostered by Big Mamma Michelle, dictating what types of treats and goodies kids can and cannot sell at school fundraisers. Or eat at school breakfasts, lunches and, apparently coming soon, dinners. Because we, as parents, are obviously either too ignorant or uncaring to manage […]
Love him or hate him, you ignore him at your own peril. This time around, tea party favorite Rep. Ron Paul is righteously once again gunning for the Fed, only this time while defending WikiLeaks frontman Paul Assange. “In a free society, we’re supposed to know the truth,” Paul recently told FOX Business News. “In […]
Who gets hammered the worst: Charlie Rangel in the House today, or LeBron James in Cleveland tonight?
Appalling. Instead of a stiff fine or penalty – I’m thinking tarred, feathered and hauled down Tryon Street – former United Way leader Gloria Pace King is set to walk off with a $700K check. Just fills you with the holiday spirit, doesn’t it?
The controversial so-called Food Safety Bill that Senate Democrats hustled through a lame-duck session this week, with help from none other than North Carolina’s own alleged Republican Richard Burr, looks to be headed back into the chamber freezer. In the Senate’s haste to keep us lowly, ignorant food consumers safe from ourselves, the powers that […]
Announces it on Twitter, no less, from the looks of this morning’s tweet from Union County DA John Synder: Excited to announce Marsha Goodenow joining my team of prosecutors! Goodenow, Mecklenburg County’s former top homicide prosecutor, was fired less than a week ago by outgoing DA Peter Gilchrist, who has yet to offer a public […]
Upset with the Obama Administration and the Democrat Party dragging feet on so-called immigration reform, Latino political leaders are contemplating a move to go rouge and they’re taking a page, not to mention a tip-of-the-hat moniker, from the Tea Party’s playbook. This from the Daily Caller: The idea, born of frustration over the party’s inaction […]
Sanity comes close, but ultimately falls short, in Johnston County, where school officials are now requiring notes from parents if they don’t want their children to use lip balm, hand sanitizer or sunscreen while at school. As opposed to school officials’ original plan to outlaw lip balm from campuses unless parents sent notes stating their […]
