“A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.” – George William Curtis This month I have gone on two trips by car; one taking me south through Atlanta, across Alabama, and up to Memphis, and the other […]
Please, please, if you can find a way to make it, go visit the NASCAR Museum. It appears that estimated attendance is falling slightly below projections. Instead of 800,000 visitors per year, projections now may tumble below 300,000! But don’t worry; the uptown crowd assures us that no bailout with taxpayer money will be required. However, […]
“Old time” Democrats live by the idea that Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved the nation by creating social programs to save the poor from the Great Depression. Those Democrats are having a difficult time understanding why Roosevelt’s reputation isn’t glorified by all Americans. They are also watching their Democrat Party evolve into a blatant anti-American, global […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools: A government agency whose avowed purpose is to provide an education to all children, no matter their circumstance. It is with such lofty purposes every government venture begins. The results are in and have been for decades. They have been in since the 1950s and 1960s, long before the decline associated with the […]
John Pistole, head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), this week defended recent moves by the agency to conduct more invasive security screenings at our nation’s airports. In particular he defended the controversial full-body scanners that can search for items under passengers’ clothing and the more-aggressive pat-downs that involve the touching of genitalia of passengers […]
Sometimes you have to hand it to your enemies. Regressives are masterful at portraying themselves as the administrators of “economic fairness.” No Regressive oration would be complete without a splash of class envy. Be it “tax cuts for the greedy rich” or “the rich getting wealthy on the backs of the poor,” the message is […]
The upcoming ‘debate’, such as it will be, on the recommendations of the Bowles-Simpson Deficit Reduction Commission remind me of the annoying kid who would invite you to play basketball at their house on their backyard court with their basketball. Inevitably, almost as if scripted, some foul would be inflicted on said annoying kid (SAK) […]
There will be a revaluation of property in Mecklenburg County this year. Look out for a tax increase. Did Jennifer Roberts really get reelected? Well it could be worse. If she transmorgrified into Parks Helms there would be no question about the chances of a property tax increase. With Helms out and Roberts in there […]
Retribution is his, sayeth Obama. There is a psychology behind this President that turns talking heads into bobble heads. Before and after this election, I’ve heard the media wagging on, speculating about Obama’s reaction to the voices of the people. They go back and forth on whether he will move to the center out of […]
As the dust settles from the 2010 Mid-Term elections, Tea Partiers are looking around and taking stock. For many, if not most, these elections were the first national-level contests they’ve been through as grassroots organizers. While the results were undeniably positive for the Republican Party, some wonder if those results bode just as well for […]
