Want to land a quick and easy $900,000 to teach cocaine-fueled monkeys how to boogie down with weird dances that can be featured on YouTube? Ask the federal government for a grant and you’d probably be in luck. It worked for UNC Charlotte and Wake Forest University, two institutions of higher learning that received hundreds […]
I don’t know about you, but I woke up one day, some undetermined moment a few years ago, and suddenly found myself in a country that is being run by an overabundance of rules put in place by unrecognizable leaders in our government. By unrecognizable, I mean people with whom I can’t relate. By that […]
Catching up with last month’s release of the federal government’s Mid-Session Budget Review, this devastating account from The Heritage Foundation concludes the numbers are nothing less than an admission from the Obama Administration that its economic policies and the massive $862-billion stimulus package have been an abject failure. From The Foundry: When President Obama sold […]
Americans take pride in being the world’s freest people. We celebrate freedom on Independence Day. We sing of it before our sporting events. But haven’t history’s most brutal regimes concealed tyranny behind veils of patriotism and rhetorical allusions to liberty? After all, dictators don’t gain power while pledging chains and slavery. They gain power with […]
As Congress heads out the door for its August recess, a growing number of Democrats are calling for Rep. Charles Rangel to head out for good. That would include President Barack Obama, apparently, who was zinging some none-too-subtle signals during a recent interview with CBS News that it was time for Rangel to go, according […]
And they don’t come any better or bigger than ultra-leftist filmmaker Michael Moore. Case in point: spewing his liberal rhetoric across the screen with a movie that bashes corporate tax handouts, while pocketing a huge corporate tax handout for the movie. Moore received an estimated $650,000 to $1 million in state film tax credits from […]
Just one of the myriad interesting items the federal government is spending your hard-earned money to study: $181,406 to be exact. That’s how much the National Institutes of Health shelled out for a researcher at the University of Kentucky to study how cocaine enhances the sex drive of Japanese quail. Seriously. And that’s the least […]
President Obama is a peerless liar. He is so consistent that one only need know he is speaking to know he is lying. Take, for instance, his recent quote about what have become known as the Bush tax cuts. Prez says in part: “… the same tax cuts that have added hundreds of billions of […]
Or make it a fine Bordeaux, if that’s more your bent. It’s for your health, after all, according to the latest from the folks tasked with updating the USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans for 2010. One of those guidelines focuses on alcohol and is stirring up quite the debate. Which shouldn’t come as a huge […]
Local city and county leaders love flying around the country for their annual Inter-City Visits and touting all the wonderful ideas they reap during their adventures, which in turn can be emulated and implemented in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. We are doomed if they ever Inter-City visit Bell, California, a small town in Los Angeles County with some […]
