Since June 26 of last year we’ve been counting down to today, because a lack of announcement yesterday means Cintra missed the deadline for financial close. Missing this deadline means Cintra is supposed to forfeit a $15 million security deposit they made back when the contract was signed last June. Supposed to. The contract allows […]
The Reverend Al Sharpton denies liberty and freedom to those who purchase his wares. He’s a race profiteer, one who makes his living creating racial tension not healing communities. Even though he owes the IRS millions in back taxes, Sharpton visited the White House 61 times in 2014 and reportedly advised the President on Attorney […]
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) is a self-described “non-partisan research organization” dedicated to providing “accurate, timely, and straightforward information” about tax policies. In a new report on state and local taxes, ITEP declares that “virtually every state’s tax system is fundamentally unfair,” because they take “a much greater share of income from low- and middle-income families than from wealthy […]
This morning, WidenI77 filed suit in Mecklenburg Superior Court to stop the I-77 toll lane project. Following the filing, the group conducted a press conference on the steps of the attorney’s office. That video is above. The complaint contains twelve separate counts. I’ll talk about the two that I can most easily grasp and articulate. […]
From the moment it was announced that a weekly Muslim call to prayer was going to be sent out over an amplified sound system from the top of Duke Chapel at Duke University last week, you knew it was going to be controversial. After all, Duke University used to be Ground Zero for the training […]
In Corporate America, during annual reviews people are often rated on their “accomplishments” as well as their “behaviors”. Said another way, employees are rated on the “what they did” as well as the “how they did it”. Often times, there is a perception that the “what” side of the equation is more Important than the […]
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong”. This quote by Voltaire, a Frenchman whose real name was François-Marie Arouet, speaks to the dangers of challenging an entrenched overreaching government while her citizens gradually lose liberty. An example comes in the form of an unconstitutional mandated tax called the Affordable Care Act […]
Charlie Hebdo is, unfortunately, in the news. Radical Islamic Terrorists, objecting to the satiric content of the magazine, shot and killed the editor and eleven others. In running from the police, others were killed. Let us get this straight: the writers and cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo agitated some people. Those people then decided that they […]
According to the Charlotte Observer, Governor McCrory is meeting with President Obama to discuss implementing ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion! And he’s trying to fool you into thinking it will be a special “North Carolina solution.” We’ve seen this very thing in states like Arkansas, where so-called “conservatives” throw in a rule or two and then call […]
No, my friends, the term “second political party” is not a typo. It is not an error. It is not a misstatement. The cooperation afforded to that tall, slim fellow who lives in the White House by those who call themselves Republicans can hardly be viewed as the behavior of what one would normally be referred […]
