Chiquita Banana is moving its headquarters from Cincinnati to downtown Charlotte. The cost is $2 million in city tax incentives and $20 million from the state. At the last minute Chiquita Banana asked for $5 million in moving expenses to seal the deal…….and they got it. Cincinnati only coughed up a total of approximately $6 million, […]
Herman Cain, whose status as a GOP presidential front-runner had already been tainted by accusations of sexual harassment, denied on Monday that he’d had a nearly 14-year, affair with an Atlanta businesswoman. Ginger White told Atlanta local news station WAGA-TV that she had a sexual relationship with Cain that began in the late 1990s when […]
Charlotte may soon have a toll road (I-485) in order to pay for additional lanes. This precedence setting progressive move is happening under the watch of a Republican controlled General Assembly. Considering NC has the 3rd highest gasoline taxes in the nation (soon maybe the 2nd highest), does NC need to raise transit revenues with […]
State Senator Doug Berger (and his hair) have decided to run against Rep. Glen Bradley in the new Senate District 18. On the advice of his hair, which is managing his campaign, Berger has come out name-calling, because apparently advocating adherence to the 10th Amendment and trying to keep the government out of your life […]
On Veteran’s Day, it is important to remember and honor the great sacrifices of those who have made our freedoms possible. Far too often we forget how truly blessed and fortunate we are to live in the United States of America. Through the years, men and women have laid down their lives so we can […]
Fellow Republicans, If you missed today’s Charlotte Observer article “Democrats Hope Tuesday Was 2012 Preview” it pointed out what an impressive grassroots organization that the Obama Machine has built in Mecklenburg County. The article noted that the NC Democratic Party sent 2 full-time organizers to Charlotte months ago (others have noted that possibly as many as 8 local organizers […]
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel asked parents to pretend they had eaten all their kid’s Halloween candy and to record the results. Sounds hilarious, right? But what he actually got were tears. Lots of them. Watch the clip below. Why were the children so upset? Maybe because they had invested their time and energy […]
In his recent Jobs Bill Obama has proposed funding the legislation by reducing the charitable deduction by about 30% for taxpayers in the top income brackets. If Obama truly wants the rich to help the needy why would he discourage affluent individuals who are most inclined and able to give by reducing the charitable deduction? His budget proposal only makes sense if you understand that […]
Obama in a recent speech said if he loses in 2012, “we’re going to have a government that tells the American people, ‘you are on your own’ .” In this statement Obama has, probably unknowingly, highlighted that which chiefly defines the difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals believe that the purpose of government is to […]
I don’t like to bad-mouth any of the candidates (I will disagree with them on policies…), but this picture disturbs me too much. After all the research I’ve done for the last several months, I truly believe these connections. Money talks, and that’s what every one of these connections is about. As a little background, […]
