What is that saying about those who would choose security over freedom deserve neither? What I hoped would be a productive and somewhat sublime time in my life has turned into an age of daily shocks to my freedom-loving core. Though I have watched the national and international news for years with great concern, I […]
Is Commissioners Chairman Harold Cogdell the first Democrat with any sense of the whole community? Is he the first Democrat with financial acumen? I believe so. All one need do is read his letter to Board of Education Chairman Ericka Ellis-Stewart, to understand his concern for the entire community. Cogdell has the temerity to assert […]
Mitt Romney has withstood every challenge to date, remaining the only constant in the Republican nomination race. There are legitimate reasons for his consistency. Romney is photogenic, has proven business skills, can manage a budget, and heads a campaign flush with cash. The sum total of these assets is the demise of everyone, thus far, […]
Let’s cut to the chase. Gingrich is dropping faster than Bill Clinton’s drawers at an intern convention. After six years hard at it, Romney has not inspired one single Mitt-bot. Santorum is everyone’s second choice – he’s the guy that the girl in your home town settled for when the dude that gave her the […]
Who stands in opposition to “the [central] bank of the United States, public debt, a navy, a standing army, American manufacturing, federally funded improvement of the interior, the role of a world power, military glory, an extensive foreign ministry, loose construction of the Constitution, and subordination of the states to the federal government”? Hint, these […]
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has recently issued a statement opposing on moral grounds the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that all health insurance plans include birth control benefits. This statement reasons that the Government should not mandate actions that will that violate an individual’s conscience or religious freedom. In response to the Catholic […]
What does the Tea Party and Occupy Charlotte have in common? Crony Capitalism as a legitimate target, and one has to look no further than our own backyard for an example. State and local government representatives, along with their compliant bureaucrats, gave or obligated $22 million to Chiquita Brands to entice them to move their […]
Economic statistics can be very confusing, but they can also tell us a lot about the country we live in if they are presented in digestible chunks. Here is our America according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics: 312 million people live here 154 million of us want to work 141 million of us do […]
Air Force One sparkled beneath the brilliant Arizona sun as President Obama and Governor Jan Brewer met one fine day on the tarmac. Then, for no reason, Brewer spat on Obama’s foot. Oh, she didn’t? Then she asked him for a shoeshine. No? Did her dog mark Air Force One’s tires? Wrong again? So what […]
I saw an interesting article asking what would happen if a person wanted to leave Medicare and got to wondering: ‘Is it ‘constitutional’ to force everyone who is aged 65 or older into and then stay on Medicare even if they don’t want to or can afford their own non-government-run and paid-for health care coverage?’ (You can […]
