A Democrat business associate recently asked me: ” what’s wrong with Obama?” I responded that what’s chiefly wrong is the fact that his vision of a top-down planned society will destroy the individual liberty that’s the foundation of all of our freedoms. Although Obama’s public comments are carefully managed to disguise the full extent of […]
If Commissioner Bill James finds historical records of voting and advocating for public television station WTVI reasons that his Republican primary opponent Ed Driggs is not a “real conservative,” then the record needs to also show that by the same type reasoning, Bill James is not a fiscal conservative. In my possession is a copy […]
No serious person can perceive Iran as anything but an enemy. From the Iran Hostage Crisis to the Ayatollahs’ vision of a world without America, Iran habitually provokes the United States. Recent events aren’t likely to warm the relationship. In fact, the Persian Gulf is simmering toward a boil. Naval exercises in the Persian Gulf, […]
Gaston County commissioners have done something very good for which we should all be thanking them. They recently voted unanimously to adopt a resolution rejecting Agenda 21 and all of the tenets therein – a United Nations doctrine that has been wrecking the sovereignty of the United States for years. The Republican National Committee this […]
Like most other “rich” people, I slept in this morning; rolled out from under the spun-gold sheets at the crack of noon, showered in Evian and went outside to fill up my humungous money bucket with the golden coins that fall out of the sky on people like me. No, no really – that’s where […]
One of Newt Gingrich’s rivals just before the South Carolina primary criticized him for his claim of having created millions of jobs, saying “Congressmen taking responsibility or taking credit for helping create jobs is like Al Gore taking credit for the Internet.” This charge of self-aggrandizement didn’t stick to Gingrich (many of whose stands have […]
Sworn in a little over a year ago as the first new District Attorney in 36 years, Mecklenburg County DA Andrew Murray said at a Mecklenburg Republican Party luncheon in Charlotte Wednesday that despite many challenges, “I love my job”. But just what does the DA and his office of 81 Assistant District Attorneys (ADAs) […]
The GOP debate in New Hampshire, which might have been one of the best educational lessons on political philosophy and constitutional interpretation you may see this year, repeatedly brought up the question of: ‘Who is the TRUE conservative?’ in this bunch. To answer that question, we think you have to go back to the Founders. […]
With the Bureau of Labor Statistics(BLS) announcement that over 200,000 jobs were created in December, the main stream media has taken to reporting the favorable opinions of administration officials and politicians that fell mostly into the “stay the course” and the “ we’re on the right track” type of comments. Lacking from the reports was […]
Commissioner Jennifer Roberts might not be at the head of the table anymore, but tax increases seem to be the order of the day unless what we are reading is leaving something out. County officials are working on a scheme to levy a new tax. They call it a “new funding vehicle for delivery of […]
