The folks over at Creative Loafing ran a cover package last week on the merits of a burgeoning “Drop the I-Word” campaign, as well as explaining the publication’s decision to join it. What is the “Drop the I-Word” campaign, you ask? CL explains: Hosted by United 4 The Dream, the youth-led advocacy group of the […]
Attorney General Eric Holder railed against voter ID laws during a speech at the NAACP National Convention this week, where journalists covering the event were required to present two forms of identification to gain entrance. Wait, what? No hypocrisy here, move right along. This from Katie Pavlich at Townhall: What did media need in order […]
One-stop early voting is underway for the July 17 slate of runoff elections, including the hotly contested GOP tilt between Sarah Cherne and Matthew Ridenhour for the District 5 seat on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners. Ridenhour and Cherne were the top vote-getters in the May 8 primary, but neither managed to crack the […]
Vice President Joe Biden’s propensity for the political gaffe is well documented. What’s even more disturbing, though, is when Biden doesn’t pull a blunder by sticking his foot in his mouth with a misplaced reference or ill-timed joke, but simply speaks his mind on reality as he perceives it. This from the Washington Examiner: Vice […]
Shoot us a link with your favorite tunes or vids (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the rotation: this one via lew rockwell from the always vigilant hal hood,who notes ~ “for those raised on the andy griffith show,how different it is now”: Andy vs. the Patriot Act And from Groucho, with his take on […]
At least you’d think so; unfortunately it’s a lesson that seems to be lost on most of Congress, and which Sen. Rand Paul is trying correct. This from The Hill: After blasting the Senate last week for passing a 600-page bill no one had time to read, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced legislation that would […]
Leave it to Mecklenburg County’s own Becky Carney to showcase how by sheer ineptitude even an aggressively liberal Democrat can sometimes stumble onto the correct side of an important vote. In Carney’s case it came when she hit the wrong button to override Gov Bev’s veto of the state’s fracking bill, which clears the way […]
During his seven-term stint as Charlotte’s mayor, Pat McCrory did little to win favor with the lean-right conservative base of the Republican Party. Indeed, from his cheerleading for light rail to his cozy ties with the uptown lunch bunch, McCrory in many cases actively ostracized the same, leaving small-government, liberty-minded voters with a stale taste […]
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which […]
With all the talk and debate about John Roberts and Obamacare, what only a few weeks ago was the driving force of Republican talking points leading up to November seems to have taken a backseat. Lest anyone forget, it’s still about the economy. This from the Associated Press: U.S. manufacturing shrank in June for the […]
