#NCSEN: Cost-of-living and the minimum wage
Kay Hagan and her lefty friends have been beating Republican Thom Tillis around the head and shoulders about what — we think — has been one of the smartest, most
Continue readingDrive-by columnist: You righties need to lighten up — Just like WE DO!
Another resident of the South McDowell Street low-testosterone zone has raised his head up to lecture the rest of us on ”civility”: […] Before you lick the stamp on your
Continue reading#NCSEN: Fact-checking the Ex-Im Bank, corporate welfare discussion
The Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney has waded into our marquee election. I am typically a big fan of Carney. (I even bought ONE of his books.) But painting Thom Tillis
Continue readingMonkey Business Alert: “diversity mapping” and “geospatial discrimination”
Sure, those terms sound like something from a George Orwell or Ayn Rand novel. But unfortunately, they are very real. The Future of Freedom Foundation fills us in on the
Continue readingDr. Creech, vultures are bipartisan.
The media hysteria over the budget debate on Jones Street is reaching a crescendo. Never mind that Democrats — when they were in charge — actually debated the budget until
Continue readingThe drive-by media and ‘the do-rag rule’
The latest news about the murder of a UNC-Chapel Hill professor brings to mind the ‘do-rag’ rule — a term first coined by or friend Bob Lee Swagger. What is
Continue readingMonkey Business Update: FOREIGN travel by Members of Congress
We got a tidal wave of enthusiastic support of our post on taxpayer-funded travel by US senators. Many readers asked us to look into taxpayer-funded trips OVERSEAS. You ask, we
Continue reading#NCGA: WWThD (What Will Thom Do?)
The North Carolina Senate has voted to send one heck of a hot potato over to the NC House. The economic development package creates a new method for handing out
Continue readingMonkey Business Report: Taxpayer-funded travel for US senators & staff
The Washington Examiner — the conservative daily that employees Renee Ellmers’s favorite “liberal reporter” — has put together a very interesting piece about how much we’re shelling out to cover
Continue reading“EAT” your toll road. It’s, um, GOOD for you!
Gov. Pat McCrory trotted out NCDOT secretary Tony Tata to defend the wildly controversial I-77 “HOT lane” tolling project in Mecklenburg County. (McCrory, House speaker Thom Tillis, and speaker pro
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