Fresh off approving a budget that includes some $71 million in cuts and delivers pink slips for scores of county employees and schoolteachers, Mecklenburg County could find itself hit by another fiscal wallop: losing upwards of $17 million courtesy of a state money grab. The North Carolina Association of County Commissioners has fired off an […]
And it was friendly-fire, coming from ultra-leftist MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman. Real Clear Politics has the video here. Some pertinent shots taken at President Obama’s Oval Office Address on the oil spill: Olbermann: “It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days.” Matthews: […]
Tune in tonight at 8:00pm on just about any channel you turn to, as Frankie, played by Barack Obama, hits the beach and explains to America how he’s going to take his boot off of Eric Von Zipper’s neck and plant it on his backside. Von Zipper, played by British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward, has […]
A little different sumtin-sumtin for weekends. Zap us your favorite tunes – editor@pundithouse.com – and we’ll work them into the rotation. We’re kicking it off with the North Mississippi AllStars. Enjoy.
Leave it to big government to create a blue-ribbon commission that’s supposed to solve our crippling national debt crisis and, instead, ends up needing a financial bailout of its own. The Daily Caller has the details here.
The real “ass” Obama should be kicking is the donkey “icon” of his Democrat Party. That particular beast of burden is floundering under the Obama administration’s heavy load of an impending $19 trillion debt by 2015 and trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see; a 50-day-old oil spill in the Gulf that’s […]
Interesting article from Politico – “Robert Gates may get lift from tea parties” – that ties to the argument of shrinking the federal government by changing foreign policy, from Philip Giraldi’s column that we posted over the weekend. From Politico: As Defense Secretary Robert Gates takes on General Electric, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other “powerful […]
You Won’t See Me ever buying a ticket to a Paul McCartney concert after his remarks in the east room of the White House after being given the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. And I’ve Got a Feeling that many McCartney fans won’t Dig It when they find out. After the ceremony and concert, Paul […]
One day after Mecklenburg commissioners ballooned the county manager’s recommended budget, gambling that an improved economy would produce stable sales tax collections next year, the stock market plunged to a new four-month low on the release of a lethargic and disappointing national jobs report, while local snackmaker Lance Inc. announced it had reduced its workforce […]
Written by Philip M. Giraldi: The Tea Party phenomenon has attracted a good deal of both good and bad attention in the media. Though it would perhaps be a stretch to describe it as a movement in that it has only limited organization and focus, it does tap into a genuine disconnect between the American […]
