NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says his agency is on course to change it mission, taking one giant leap to prop up the Obama Administration’s goal of extending olive branches to the Muslim world, supplanting space exploration as NASA’s driving goal. In a recent interview with al-Jazeera, Bolden declared that President Obama tagged the foremost objective […]
Jokes about the abilities, or lack thereof, of some Charlotte motorists notwithstanding, blind drivers might soon be headed down a road near you. The National Federation of the Blind, in partnership with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, is developing a vehicle that would use “non-visual interface” technologies, which transmit information to a driver […]
Even though there are no surprises, it turns out the illegal drug business is more interesting than normally thought. Most people know drug dealers, large and small, must somehow transfer their illegally gained money into a legally accepted form in order to use it. The process is known as money-laundering. Bloomberg News reporter Michael Smith […]
If I hadn’t seen and heard it myself I would have never believed it: Nancy Pelosi, telling America that unemployment benefits are, “One of the biggest stimulus’s to our economy.” Wait – it gets better. Speaker Pelosi went on to say that unemployment benefits are actually “job creating” and that unemployment benefits “create jobs faster than […]
In a move that could have dire ramifications for Charlotte-Mecklenburg and municipalities across the state, union bosses and their henchmen in the federal government are getting ready to ram through the Police and Firefiighters Monopoly Bargaining bill by attaching it to the War Supplemental, slated to be voted on tonight. We brought this abomination to […]
In every campaign since I can remember, Democrats have impressed me with one political tactic: they understood their talking points and never missed an opportunity to espouse them, usually as a preface to EVERY answer – no matter what the question. With the exception of Ronald Reagan’s campaigns, what has been an enormous disappointment to […]
No, seriously, at least according to the braintrust of 238 “presidential scholars, historians and political scientists” who took part in the latest Siena College Research Institute’s Survey of U.S. Presidents. Barack Obama ranked as the 15th most effective commander-in-chief, sandwiched between Ronald Reagan at 16 and Bill Clinton at 13. Obama drew high marks for […]
Last Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed H.R. 5175, the “Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act”, by a vote of 219 to 206. Like most votes on Capitol Hill these days, the vote was highly partisan; of the 219 “aye” votes, only two were Republicans (Mike Castle of […]
Politics is a curious study and there are many ways of participation. For those of more than a cursory interest there have always been breakfast and lunch and evening get-togethers where friends discuss issues and people of interest. Today there is the internet with blogs, websites and email, which brings me to my tale. There is […]
In a classic case of the inmates running the asylum, an outspoken critic of enforcement of illegal immigration laws by local authorities has been picked by the Obama Administration to coordinate partnerships between federal and local officials dealing with the issue of illegal immigration. Harold Hurtt begins his new job next month as the director […]
