Why social issues are important to GOP success
The “conventional wisdom” out there is that Republican candidates need to run away from ANY discussion of social issues for fear of alienating the almighty moderates out there. Well, research is out there making the case that the Republican Party owes a…
Announcement of tax dollars for brewery raises new set of questions
It appears that Pinehurst Village government has jumped head-first into the venture capital game — picking winners and losers by investing tax dollars in certain enterprises seeking to locate in-town. First, we’re funding a feasibility study for a brand new privately-owned and…
Owner of The Pilot newspaper showed BarryO the money in 2011
The Charlotte Observer has a pretty neat searchable database on its web site detailing 2011 contributions to presidential candidates by North Carolinians. One search of that database found “Frank Daniels, Jr.” of Raleigh donated $5,000 to BarryO on June 27, 2011. The database shows Daniels…
Google, Bob Etheridge & name ID
Judging from a routine Google search, Democrat gubernatorial frontrunner Bobby “Boom Boom” Etheridge’s PR team has its work cut out for it. Go to Google and input “bob etheridge.” On the first page — the first 14 results — you get 8 items…
UNC athletics, Rush & the ghost of McCarthyism
The leftist lynch mob is STILL after El Rushbo even after he apologized for his choice of words. This proves it’s not about “civil discourse.” It’s all about shutting down the most effective obstacle to leftist domination of American society. In case you’re wondering…
BarryO and THAT dubious Elon / N&O poll
The N&O newsroom is falling all over its collective self to trumpet a poll it co-sponsored with Elon University that appears to show BarryO’s approval on the upswing here in The Tar Heel State. The buzz-kill for Barry’s fan club in the N&O newsroom…
NYC direct flights in the cards for Moore County Airport?
I had an interesting discussion the other day with a local business community mover-and-shaker who is also in-the-know on economic development. Our subject turned to Moore County’s Airport and the minor controversy surrounding recent government funding of runway renovations. My source tells me that AT…
Cops to focus on catching crooks, bakers to focus on making bread, and new schools chief to focus on literacy
Apparently, The Fayetteville Observer thinks it is newsworthy that the new Moore County Schools superintendent is going to focus on ‘literacy.’ Um — what ELSE should he be focusing on? On the face of it, the statement sounds silly. Though, as a community…
Pay no attention to THAT failing economy …
A lot of times, when there is something someone REALLY doesn’t want to talk about, they’ll try to turn your attention to ANOTHER UNRELATED subject. That’s the tactic leftists and their useful idiots in the mainstream media are employing in the face of…
How Rush SHOULD have done it
The MSM is abuzz over El Rushbo’s apology to the Georgetown law student who wants us all to pay for her birth control pills. Some video (h/t to Treacher & VodkaPundit) illustrating how El Rushbo should have done the whole “apology” thing…
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