After avoiding Cabarrus County during the primary election, Thom Tillis finally came to town last Thursday to address the county Republican Party, and I was eager to ask him a question. Last week Cabarrus State Senator Fletcher Hartsell quickly ran an amendment that strips the Cabarrus County Republican executive board of its ability to appoint […]
Mecklenburg County has two candidates for sheriff. Both seem qualified according to their resumes but there are some critical differences. Irwin Carmichael is a well spoken lifetime bureaucrat with the sheriff’s office who aspires to the top paying, best retirement available position. I was lucky enough to hear him speak at Don Reid’s breakfast recently […]
I am not a constitutional scholar. But I have been around enough of them to know what they are and what they might say from time to time. I am not a big fan of President Obama. I thought there was a slight glimmer of hope the more I watched re-runs of his truly great […]
At our meeting last week (WidenI77 TownHall meeting in Cornelius on July 24. Click HERE for video.) we raised two issues regarding personal data. First was the breath of information that could be collected, including SSN’s and medical data. Second was that the private company- Cintra- could be collecting it. Last Friday the NCDOT disputed […]
A lot has been written in the past two weeks about the Republican infighting in Raleigh and the negative impacts it’s having on Team Tillis’s campaign for the US Senate. The most current round of that fighting may be coming to an end with reports of a “framework” to end the budget stalemate between the more […]
We’ve all heard the PEW Research Center’s cliche that likens vote fraud to getting struck by lightning, but now we understand how they get away with that nonsense: the key is prosecutions…and those things are hard to get! For example, the first five of our Florida and NC (FLANC) double voters have finally reached a level of […]
What passes for reasonable thought by those opposed to religion is exemplified by the letter of Jeff McKelvey found in the Charlotte Observer’s July 9 edition. He says in part: “…But when religious schools receive public funds, the government is forcing me – through my taxes – to support a religious institution. That is precisely what […]
Splitting the conservative vote by supporting a candidate other than the nominee is a controversial activity indeed. Despite the Republican Party undermining real conservatives and conservative values on a regular basis, those of us refusing to yet again lend them our support in their quest for authority are considered the traitors and political heretics. Well, […]
Ardent supporters of the President will point to the new stock market highs, the falling unemployment rate and a few other economic reports and say: ‘See? His policies worked! All we needed to do was more of the same and think about how great things would be today!’ If that is true, how come so many […]
Consider this a public service announcement for PunditHouse readers. How many of you were aware there was going to be a constitutional amendment on the ballot this November? I only found out about this amendment referendum in early April of this year so don’t feel bad if you answered in the negative. I have asked […]
