Saturday Night House Party
Send us your favorite tunes (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the rotation. This is the Beastie Boys. Enjoy.
Send us your favorite tunes (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the rotation. This is the Beastie Boys. Enjoy.
In a classic case of the inmates running the asylum, an outspoken critic of enforcement of illegal immigration laws by local authorities has been picked by the Obama Administration to coordinate partnerships between federal and local officials dealing with the issue of illegal immigration. Harold Hurtt begins his new job next month as the director […]
Those who have known me for any length of time know that I am a fan of drop down dirty, punishing, bloody primary elections. The real politics, regardless of party affiliation, is conducted while determining a party’s nominee. It has frankly always astounded me that primary elections have relatively lower turnout than their general election […]
And then spending some more. That seems to be the standard operating model for the N.C. General Assembly, where the Senate recently approved taking on $451 million of non-voter-approved debt for, among other items, building some new engineering facilities for N.C. State and AT&T State. The bond debt doesn’t include funding for operations, once the […]
What do Nick Mackey and Glenn Beck have in common? They both want to legalize marijuana, an interesting intersection from two polar opposite sides of the political spectrum. Mackey’s take here; Beck’s below.
Economists greeted a dip in the state’s May unemployment rate, which ticked down to 10.3 percent, with an overwhelming blah, pointing out that most of the decline was attributed to temporary government hiring for the U.S. census. That and more than 42,300 folks didn’t so much find a job, as they simply exhausted their unemployment […]
Send us your favorite tunes (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the rotation. This is The Velvet Underground. Enjoy.
Concord, North Carolina (June 18, 2010). Today, Harold Johnson, Republican Candidate for the 8th Congressional District, fired back against what he called a “pattern of lies and deception” from his opponent Tim D’Annunzio. Recent radio and internet ads paid for by Tim D’Annunzio for Congress and approved by D’Annunzio have made wild accusations about […]
Tossed out for general discussion and debate; feedback and comments encouraged: * Convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad in Utah last night. Would you have pulled the trigger? Not just philosophically, as in supporting the death penalty; but literally, as in stepping behind the firing line? * Mayor Anthony Foxx has […]
The Executive Board of the South Carolina Democratic Party has upheld U.S. Senate primary election results that saw an unemployed, accused felon that few people had heard of before last week and even fewer people seem willing to acknowledge voting for, topple a former four-term state representative. Barring any unexpected twists – no guarantee in […]