An organized group of people waving signs and shouting slogans: the latest Tea Party rally? Nope, that would have generated plenty of media coverage, complete with the predictable, inflammatory and wholly inaccurate descriptions of angry, enraged and out-of-control protestors. In this case, which the mainstream media seems to have largely ignored, it was an unruly […]
No mas, el Presidente Calderon – not in our house! Before you decide to come back into our house telling us how to run our country, clean up your own mess back in Mexico. If “your people,” as you refer to them, need work so bad that they have to come to America illegally, why […]
On May 20, 2010, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (the first in the colonies) was celebrated with the unveiling of a statue called “The Spirit of Mecklenburg,” which captures Captain Jack Johnson’s ride to deliver the Meck Dec to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. To learn more about this event, and the “Meck […]
Leave it to the Democrat-controlled state Senate to pick right up where Gov. Bev Perdue left off, rolling out a budget that is filled with fantasy spending and does nothing to address the financial crisis North Carolina faces. Instead, the $19-billion monstrosity skirts any responsibility by pulling magic money from myriad hats, refusing to deal […]
Tuesday brought a round of electoral good news for folks whose faith had maybe begun to waver about ever breaking the stranglehold that the status quo has wrapped around politics. In several high-profile, closely-watched races, outsider candidates toppled entrenched incumbents. Rand Paul, a first-time candidate with deep roots in the Tea Party movement, defeated Kentucky’s […]
It’s not the tens of thousands of grassroots conservatives who show up at Tea Party protests around the country that have President Obama and the entire Democrat Party worried – it’s the millions of conservative Tea Party supporters who don’t show up at those events that have them scared to death. Picture the Tea Party […]
Along, apparently, with whatever he’s been smoking. Sports Illustrated’s gridiron guru, Peter King, has the Carolina Panther’s ranked as the eighth-best team in the NFL heading into the season and foresees a Wild Card playoff appearance, with a legitimate run to the Big Dance. King also predicts this will be John Fox’s last year prowling […]
The Republican National Committee (RNC) kicked-off its new Women’s Interactive Network on May 13th with a Women’s Summit in Washington, DC. More than 280 women from across the nation were nominated by their GOP state party chairmen, Republican National Committeemen and Committeewomen, and Republican Members of Congress based on their leadership ability and commitment to […]
Along with, not surprisingly, a boatload of folks tied to some of the state’s top Democrats, including former Gov. Mike Easley, again, and former Senate leader Tony Rand. The N&O breaks it down here – be sure to read the link on Law Enforcement Associates: Federal investigators have issued a subpoena for next week’s grand […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is going to have to get every dime’s worth out of its multi-million-dollar PR budget to spin their way out of this one: firing teachers in front of their students. Nice touch. Next up, the school board clubs baby seals during CMS-TV’s penultimate episode of UpFront! with Superintendent Peter Gorman.
