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Obama’s trip to India will cost $200 million a day: The story has been making the rounds, and even landed Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., in hot water with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, but really – $200 million a day? So reports New Delhi TV: Mumbai: The US would be spending a whopping $200 million (Rs.900 crore […]
November 4, 2010 | Posted in House Blends,Mark Pellin,National | Read More »
From the Randslide in Kentucky to impressive wins in key battleground states across the electoral map, the GOP’s takeover of the US House was bolstered by the sway of an insurgent tea party movement and heralded a resounding repudiation of the policies and politics of President Barack Obama and soon-to-be former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. […]
November 3, 2010 | Posted in House Blends,Mark Pellin,National | Read More »
This one is particularly sweet. It wasn’t so long ago that I had the pleasure of editing the random musings of Mick Mulvaney, back when he was a regular contributing columnist for The Rhino Times in Charlotte. He was an anti-big government, pro-free market renegade then and he still is today, only now he’s got […]
November 3, 2010 | Posted in Carolinas,House Blends,Mark Pellin | Read More »
Republican Richard Burr rumbled to an easy victory last night, trouncing Democrat Elaine Marshall by a 56 to 43 percent margin to retain his US Senate seat. Although you’d never know if you had your eyes on Mecklenburg County, where Marshall took Burr to the woodshed, nearly flipping the statewide tally and capturing 52 percent […]
November 3, 2010 | Posted in Carolinas,Char-Meck Beat,Mark Pellin | Read More »

The GOP simultaneously bucked and repeated history Tuesday night in an election that saw Republicans capture both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly for the first time in more than a century, while again coming up painfully short in their attempt to wrest majority control of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners. And in […]
November 3, 2010 | Posted in City Beat,County Beat,House Specials,Mark Pellin | Read More »
Board of Education Chairman Eric Davis says CMS doesn’t have anything to hide and will fully cooperate with the local NAACP’s request for an outside financial audit of the district, but won’t come off the hip to foot the bill. That burden, Davis said, should fall on the rabble-rousers calling for a review of CMS’ […]
November 2, 2010 | Posted in Char-Meck Beat,CMS Beat,Mark Pellin | Read More »
If you’re looking for evidence of how incredibly screwed up and bass-ackward Mecklenburg County’s criminal justice system has become, search no further than today’s Meck Deck, where Jeff Taylor digs up the ugly disparity in bonds meted out by the same judge for the infamous pen-bomb mom ($50K) and an accused rapist ($5K). Wonderful.
November 2, 2010 | Posted in Char-Meck Beat,County Beat,Mark Pellin | Read More »
Starting off with one that goes out to all the tax-and-spend, big-government incumbents, come Nov. 2. This is Ray Charles: Followed up with some Happy Halloween wishes from White Zombie:
October 30, 2010 | Posted in Mark Pellin | Read More »
That’s a lot of acronyms and none of them bode well for the Obama Administration. A draft report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which charged that the Department of Justice tried to cover-up the extensive involvement of high-level political officials in the dismissal of voter-intimidation lawsuit brought against the New Black Panther Party, […]
October 30, 2010 | Posted in House Blends,Mark Pellin,National | Read More »