With a twist of ironic timing, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library officials have tagged April Fool’s Day to launch expanded hours at a dozen community branch libraries where services had shrunk and positions were cut in response to previous budgetary reductions. The move, which will cost about $1.2 million drawn from the library system’s current budget, is […]
Republican US Senator Rand Paul (KY) says the path forward for the GOP in national elections is to get someone on the ballot who is a little more libertarian. Sort of like him, coincidentally. Appearing on FOX News Sunday, Sen. Paul made his case: If Rand Paul is right, he’s positioning himself pretty well. He […]
Harry Jones has logged more than a decade of history as manager of Mecklenburg County, complete with a wide-ranging mix of achievements and blunders, public acclaim and high-profile controversies that are all but certain to leave a lasting mark on local government. Last fall, though, Jones left a mark of a different sort; or more […]
Hey Media Folks, you can all go cover other stories rather than Gov. Pat McCrory. WRAL has announced it will track every promise made by newly-sworn-in McCrory on its website. Which is sort of odd because I thought the media was already supposed to keep track of promises made, kept, and broken by elected leaders. This […]
I recently read a comment online that included the directive to “do what’s best for your country.” It doesn’t really matter what the person was supporting, it was the belief by this person that any two people could agree on “what’s best” that got me to thinking. What is best for our country? Is it […]
You’ve probably heard about Tourette’s Syndrome. It is a genetic trait that, for some unknown and still unexplained reason, makes some people say really bad things out in public at really inopportune times. I knew a young man who unfortunately had Tourette’s. A fine young man, very kind, very nice. Our son went to see […]
Because a pollster’s idea of “Happy Holidays” means combining politics with Jesus’ birth…. the folks at Public Policy Polling released a survey that asked people whether they thought Santa Claus is a Democrat or Republican. My initial thought was, “Good heavens, why are we politicizing St. Nick?” But then I started thinking about the mentality of […]
There’s a new tax going into effect on January 1, 2013, and there isn’t a thing that can be done about it. It’s called the “New Medicare Tax on Unearned Income.” It is being assessed at a rate of 3.8% ~ not on payroll or earned income, as it has always been in the past, […]
The week before last, lame-duck Governor Bev Perdue found a way to throw North Carolinians under the bus one last time before leaving office. As the deadline closed in for states to decide whether to help implement ObamaCare Exchanges or tell the Feds to take a hike, she buckled to pressure from the Left and […]
I stumbled across something today called the Congressional Unmanned Systems Caucus. What is that, you ask? It’s 60 members of the US House of Representatives who are: Pushing for “public acceptance” of drones in the skies over America; Referring to themselves as the “voice on Capitol Hill” of the drone industry; Actively supporting further development, acquisition, and deployment of these systems to […]
