So says the grassroots, good-government advocacy group StrengthenCharlotte, offering a plethora of compelling reasons for why voters should reject the city’s $204-million bond ask at the polls. The real surprise: an across-the-board thumbs-down on all three bond fronts, which appear on ballots as individual issues: $157 million for transportation; $32 million for neighborhood improvement; and […]
The U.S. Constitution guarantees equal rights under the law to each citizen. Period. As history would confirm, people in power skew the laws to enhance their own power, gain votes, assuage their own egos, and, in our last 250 years, try to circumvent the U.S. Constitution. In my lifetime I’ve seen the powerful in government […]
This just in from the Fact is Stranger than Fiction Department: President Barack Obama will appear on an episode of the popular “Mythbusters” television show, scheduled to be aired Dec. 8 on the Discovery Channel. The episode, which has already been taped, has The Chosen One challenging the validity of the tale of Greek scientist […]
We already have ‘free’ health insurance in America. For seniors, that is. With the elections right around the corner, it is a good time to evaluate whether anyone you vote for understands anything about solving the humongous problems facing us as a nation … And no, they do not include witchcraft, calling a female gubernatorial candidate […]
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) summarized his Deficit Reduction and Budget Reform Act on The Hill website. His purpose was to outline his ideas for restoring fiscal discipline to the federal government. Not once did Sen. Thune mention “American exceptionalism,” the laws of science, religion, or race. But that didn’t stop an obvious Regressive from taking […]
Or Darkness In The Land of the Midnight Sun: A newly released Rasmussen Reports poll shows Lisa Murkowski’s write-in campaign pulling her within one point of Joe Miller, the upstart, Tea Party-backed candidate who knocked off the entrenched incumbent in Alaska’s GOP primary: A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Alaska shows […]
This is low-down disgraceful, even for an activist liberal hack like MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who managed to turn the all-round joyous rescue of 33 Chilean miners into an opportunity to lob cheap political shots at the Tea Party and conservatives. NewsBusters snags the insultingly offensive claims from Matthews’ segment with guest Richard Trumka, president of […]
Simon Malls is at it again. Many will remember the story from summer of 2009 when Loren Spivack’s “Free Market Warrior” kiosk in the Concord Mills mall was denied a lease renewal in part due to the conservative political nature of the products being sold. Simon Malls, which runs the property, refused to comment on […]
Is nothing sacred? Is there no limit to the lengths busybodies will go to rule every aspect of our lives? Apparently there isn’t. Not even baseball, America’s pastime, nor a victory celebration can escape the bureaucrat’s oversight or the anonymous meddler’s nosiness. The Cincinnati Reds were recently crowned the National League’s Central Division champions, landing […]
As you may have heard, former Speaker of the U.S. House Newt Gingrich will be coming to Charlotte on Oct. 27 to headline a fundraiser for the North Carolina Republican Party. The funds raised will be used to support Get Out the Vote efforts in Mecklenburg County for Republican candidates. The Charlotte Observer reported on the event, […]
