You probably heard we spent the day in court yesterday pressing our case for a preliminary injunction. The decision can go one of three ways: The judge grants the preliminary injunction The judge denies the preliminary injunction, in which instance the case can still move forward The judges throw the case out. The key words […]
Corporate incentives are the darling of the Chamber of Commerce Republican and the bane of the grassroots Republican. The very mention of such polarizes the Republican Party in North Carolina. Governor Pat is angry that the state doesn’t have more of our tax dollars set aside to lure companies to the Old North State, selling […]
Washington, DC, is the capital of the United States. Yet Silicon Valley is the true capital of the America of the present and the future. Silicon Valley and its satellites gave us personal computers, web browsing, email, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, iPhones, iPads, and other technologies that have transformed and are transforming our […]
Based upon two new papers in academic journals, media outlets have been reporting that the world’s oceans are overwhelmed with plastic waste. However, as detailed below, the documented amount of plastic in the world’s oceans is the equivalent of placing a microscopic speck of plastic weighing less than one-thousandth of an ounce into this Olympic-sized […]
Hypocrisy by the left has become ubiquitous. How many instances of the left decrying the right for some perceived slight need be listed? If the right speaks of marriage between a man and woman, the left whines foul. If the right speaks of pipelines for industry, the left whines foul. If the right speaks of […]
How were Dean Smith and Wallace Wade most alike? ‘They saw themselves as ‘teachers’ first and foremost’. ‘What’s that you say? 2 of the most successful collegiate coaches in the history of college sports in America thought of themselves as ‘teachers’ first and ‘coaches’ second? Are you kidding me?’ It’s true. Of course, it helped […]
Since 2010, a sweeping debt crisis has hammered the Eurozone. The poster child of this crisis is Greece. In October 2014, Greek unemployment stood at 25.8 percent; high unemployment remains a theme in the Greek economy since the 2008 recession. Liberals decry the Greek economy situation as an example of conservative economic principle failures. However, […]
This Thursday, WFAE a Charlotte Talks will host a panel discussion on HOT Lanes with Wideni77.org’s, Kurt Naas, going head to head with Robert Poole of the Reason Foundation – a libertarian think tank in California. Charlotte City Councilman Al Austin will also be on the panel. For those paying close attention to the HOT […]
Non-profit is a word descriptive of a type of business entity which has a special tax status. Along with that status comes rules particular to the idea of being not in the business of making a profit. This would obviously seem to mean the business has some other function it tries to fulfill. One of […]
There isn’t any doubt that the IMF imposed austerity programs have been a leading cause of the deterioration of the Greek’s standard of living and the subsequent violent social unrest. Unfortunately the new government is most shortsightedly confusing the symptoms with the disease. Rather than face the harsh realities of bankruptcy, enduring the pain of […]
