As the Charlotte City Council once again proves its unbridled and bipartisan enthusiasm for spending other people’s money, trying their best to throw even more loot at the Carolina Panthers, it’s left to former councilmember Don Reid to play pulling guard for taxpayers. Reid, a Republican, has launched a grassroots campaign that’s encouraging folks to […]
Back by popular demand! A little something to help pass the time during tonight’s message from the great leader: the official PunditHouse State of the Union BoINGO Card. Feel free to play along at home – on the honor system, natch – by checking off any phrases or words that President Obama uses in his […]
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There’s a tried and true maxim in high stakes poker, which successful card sharks ignore at their own peril: don’t bluff unless you’re willing to lose the pot. With that as a guiding principle, consider Gov. Pat McCrory’s recent use of his newly won bully pulpit as leverage to dissuade Charlotte city councilmembers from moving […]
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Send us a link with your favorite tunes and vids (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the mix: Because David Mamet Major Scaled #2 : REM – “Recovering My Religion” from major scaled on Vimeo. Interesting concept; I like the retooled version, at least for the REM cut (other examples found at the above link). Thoughts?
Just when you thought Mecklenburg County’s flawed 2011 property tax revaluation Big Heist couldn’t possibly get any more criminally incompetent and professionally bungled, we learn that yet another shoe might be about to drop. It starts with an email that Commissioner Karen Bentley received from a constituent expressing concern over the county’s recently hired new […]
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Luke 2:1-14 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up […]
Shoot us your favorite tunes and vids (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the mix: Not a Christmas song in the classic sense, but certainly one in the purest; h/t to Kristie Bittleston’s always interesting Facebook feed:
