Some liberals are attempting to co-opt the tragic Aurora massacre. As the San Francisco Chronicle observes: Each time there is a mass killing on American soil, the angry sound bites about gun control start long before funeral services are scheduled. The frustrated proponents of strict gun laws see each new tragedy as vindication of their views and […]
Over at DavidsonNews.net there is a piece that poses the question Is assessor ignoring Davidson affordable housing rules? In an unfortunate situation, there are Davidson homeowners in the Town’s affordable housing program who after the last revaluation now have homes assessed for more than they can legally sell them according to the rules that keep the homes […]
It can be argued that mankind is nature’s perfect contradiction. We seldom consider issues for which there are logical conclusions. Yet when confronted with senseless violence we’ll make vain attempts to rationalize irrationality. But no matter how hard we work, satisfactory results are unachievable. Explaining the unexplainable is like pushing breakers back into the ocean. […]
The wisdom of libertarian neutrality on social issues was demonstrated again recently when one man’s opinion on marriage provoked chicken bans in major cities and a cancer fatwa from the nation’s least-qualified marriage expert. Libertarians are often described as fiscally conservative and socially liberal, but many of us prefer the term “neutral”, especially when liberals […]
Here is what you need to worry about: Now that the Dodos of Climate Change have been proven wrong and their prizes for “science” are all bunk and rubbish, what do they do next? Answer: Ignore facts and indoctrinate the heck out of everyone, man, woman, and child in the country. The Dodos are not going away, […]
President Obama recently generated a furor with his speech in Roanoke, Virginia, in which he stated: There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who … know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. … If you were successful, somebody along the […]
Watching the election night returns in the new NC Senate 41 district was like watching a train bearing down on a car trapped on the tracks. You could sense the outcome before it hit, even as you hoped it was not going to happen. John Aneralla held a solid lead in early voting showing strong support among […]
Ms. Fannie Flono of the uptown paper goes off on the Boy Scouts for not abiding her desire to include avowed homosexuals. As an Eagle Scout and as a past adult Assistant Scout Master, I would like to disagree with Ms. Flono and to task her with taking the mote from her own eye before casting […]
It took President Obama’s infamous “you didn’t build it” speech to finally stimulate something in the economy; unfortunately for him that something was a week of blistering ridicule from producers. The blowback was predictable – if the symphony conductor can’t read music, the folks playing the instruments take umbrage when he credits the gym teacher […]
Yes ma’am. You heard that ‘torectly as they say (sometimes) in the South. Americans spent enough time and effort complying with government regulations to total $1.8 trillion of our roughly $15 trillion national GDP. (Source: Small Business Administration) During the same year, the entire American manufacturing industry made $1.7 trillion worth of: airplanes, cars, furniture, clothes, […]
