Special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun – but no health insurance. How’s that Obamacare working out? Not so good at McDonald’s Corp., where executives have signaled that requirements of the new law would force the fast-food titan to drop insurance coverage for upwards of 30,000 employees. This from The WSJ: […]
The United Nations can’t even get it right half of the time on Planet Earth, so naturally we’d want them in charge of greeting any extraterrestrials that happen our way. From the New York Post: Mazlan Othman, an obscure Malaysian scientist, will be named as the Earth’s official alien-spacecraft greeter. She’s expected to announce her […]
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Shameless. This from NewsBusters: On Thursday’s World News, ABC anchor Diane Sawyer ran as a “news” item a White House-produced video — complete with schmaltzy background music — of President Obama taking a phone call from a cancer patient who, Sawyer informed viewers “is now able to get health insurance” thanks to ObamaCare. …. The […]
Ten, maybe five years ago, I wouldn’t have thought this possible in Charlotte: a smoking ban in outdoor public places. Today? Oh, yeah, sooner or later some bright bulb on city council, likely at the “encouragement” of Center City Partners, will bring this front and center. For the common good, of course. From NPR, on […]
The Richter scale measures the magnitude of subterranean movements. But any recent seismic activity is more attributable to our Founding Fathers rolling in their graves than to tectonic shifts. Free speech has been sacrificed and it’s doubtful the Founders would be pleased. Molly Norris is a former cartoonist for the Seattle Weekly newspaper. I say […]
There seems to me a contradiction in the position of many social conservatives. While they push strongly against abortion laws and against homosexual marriage, prostitution or recreational drug use, they advocate for individual property rights. In a philosophically consistent moral system, it seems the two positions would be mutually exclusive. An examination of these positions […]
There are people who seriously believe that Martin Sheen was one of this country’s greatest presidents, so this really shouldn’t surprise. Stephen Colbert is a great comedian and a good actor; the two key words there being ‘comedian’ and ‘actor.’ His parody of bloviator-in-chief Bill O’Reilly is as spot on as having him testify before a […]
Who could’ve seen this coming, huh? Obamacare running into problems trying to manipulate the free market. Imagine that. This from The Washington Post: Some of the country’s most prominent health insurance companies have decided to stop offering new child-only plans, rather than comply with rules in the new health-care law that will require such plans […]
Of the press, that is. Beverly Perdue’s office earlier this year snagged former Charlotte Observer political reporter Mark Johnson to become the governor’s deputy press secretary. Now it’s Raleigh News & Observer reporter Benjamin Niolet, who has been hired away from his beat to become the director of new media for the governor’s office. Gordon […]
