Before this week, I figured that the race to the intellectual bottom for Republican consultants would have been a doggoned close contest. For years I’ve written many columns — and a book — that laid bare the cognitive dissonance and record of embarrassing losses of such wizards as Karl Rove, Haley (and Henry) Barbour, Rick Tyler, Andrea Saul, Charlie […]
Because our lives are short, we tend to see history as a linear progression of events, evolving from what we personally know from our own past, that we then project into the future. Historians and students of history, however, understand that history is cyclical. The linear progression we see for ourselves is only a small […]
Things are beginning to get downright weird on the road to signing the final-final-we-really-mean-it -this-time contract with Cintra on the I77 HOT Lanes project. We’re not sure if this is a sign that some are getting antsy about going through with such a bad and unpopular idea, or if this is just a consequence of a long and […]
When is a ‘job’ a ‘good job’? Usually when you have one. As opposed to when you don’t have one. The word ‘job’ is sort of odd, isn’t it? It comes from an uncertain origin, probably around the 1550s in Olde England where a ‘jobbe of worke’ meant a ‘piece of work’ as contrasted with […]
In a case with potentially national repercussions, the Towns of Mooresville and Davidson have waded into the fray over municipal broadband network ownership. On August 28th, both towns submitted comments supporting petitions to the Federal Communications Commission by Wilson, NC and Chattanooga, TN asking the FCC to ‘preempt’ North Carolina law governing municipal owned communications networks. This State […]
Our local entertainment weekly, Creative Loafing, in their typical leftist style, denigrates Charter Schools. Pretending to be unbiased, saying she thought about sending her children to one, Erin Tracy-Blackwood tells all. She begins by telling us she has seen too many unmotivated teachers in the public school system so she decided to send her children […]
Countrywide deal is paying off big, BofA exec says — The Charlotte Observer, 2/19/09 The deal that cost Bank of America $50 billion – and counting — The Charlotte Observer, 8/16/14 Retroactive schadenfreude with perfect hindsight is not the goal here, especially when Bank of America’s dalliance with Countrywide raised red flags in real time as far back as those fateful […]
The Voter Integrity Project announced today that North Carolina’s statewide election rolls now contain 739,041 voter registrations from people the election officials can no longer find. “These missing voters are mostly people who moved away without telling the election office,” said Jay DeLancy, Director of VIP, “but the alarming recent growth in this voter category […]
Who will protect us when government becomes the enemy of the sovereign man? As the federal government increasingly disregards the Constitution and the Natural Law Rights it protects and secures for We the People, who will stand in the breach? When the transition from public servant to tyrant is complete and the totalitarian police state […]
Davidson’s Town Board met with LNTC and NCDOT officials last week to discuss HOT Lanes in a special meeting. SeeDavidsonNews.net for the whole story. It’s commendable that this meeting occurred though it would have been much, much better if it had been allowed before the contract was signed for commercial close of the project. Davidson Mayor, John Woods, squashed that from […]
