In observing the Charlotte City Council debate over the streetcar I was struck by the divide that exists in our city. After a restless evening I am convinced Republicans are largely responsible. Preparing my presentation for the city council convinced me more than ever that rail transit is antiquated technology that can’t compete with much […]
I could not let this propaganda from the Uptown Crowd’s disinformation arm go unanswered. Instead of using quotes, the verbatim text directly from the Observer editorial is unbracketed; and is copyright by the Charlotte Observer! My responses and comments to this are in [blue brackets]. The title of the Observer editorial was “Streetcar is sound […]
The strategy of the NAACP to tag Tea Party organizations as racist is straight from Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. From page 130, 3rd paragraph: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Q. Why are Tea Party organizations being targeted? A. They are the most prominent opposition to the progressive liberal […]
For too long we have dealt with the problems of education as if they could be fixed with budgetary proposals. I contend that the only way we will ever get lasting reform in education is by incorporating the same principals that have proven to work in the free market. The majority of products with which […]
First and foremost HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA! May God bless you and yours. I sit here in the wee early hours of July 4th, 2010 with many thoughts running through my head. I am thinking back to this afternoon when I put out on display my brand spanking new American flag. As I attached the poll with […]
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The […]
Sometimes, the unfortunate consequence of the indiscriminant use of a shotgun in close quarters is the unintended wounding of one’s friends. Such is the case with Mel Morganstein’s editorial, Presbyterian Church USA Wants to Declare Israel an Occupier of “Palestine.” The nature of Mr. Morganstein’s unfortunate broad brush attack on Presbyterians would be clear and […]
In a very bigoted fit of “stonecasting, the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) is asking its members to approve a statement next month calling for Israel to withdraw from the “illegal occupation” of the West Bank and Gaza, and for the US to halt all military and economic assistance to Israel. The Church speciously claims that […]
A Letter from Michael Kelly, Founder of “We the People NC”: Friends of the Tea Party and friends of the Republican Party, In a period of just six weeks we learned more about human nature than most of us would ever wish for. We learned that we are capable of going to great lengths […]
Submitted by Craig Nannini: As one of the founding leaders of the Charlotte Tea Party and local activist, I am giving my personal endorsement to Harold Johnson for Congress. First off I would like to thank all of the candidates who threw their hat into the 8th district race. This race is exceptionally critical in […]
