Southern Pines 2011: Progress Energy, Food Lion and Bo’s can breathe a little easier …
The NIMBY ticket — and potential startup law firm — of Smith, Smithson and Woodruff went down in flames like the Hindenberg zeppelin on Tuesday. Southern Pines voters rejected their platform of boycotting grocery stores and reading by candlelight and endorsed the more steady,…
Charlotte 2012: Watch what DNC does, not what they say
After public complaints about non-union local businesses being shut out of business opportunities for the 2012 DNC convention in Charlotte, national and state Democrats promised that non-union local businesses would get a fair shot at providing goods and services to the…
Senator DeMint: We are STILL not cutting.
For those of us active in The Tea Party, who thought we really brought change to Washington in November 2010, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint’s (R-SC) article in National Review provides quite a reality check for us: Despite bipartisan promises to cut spending after…
Campaign 2011: IS IT OVER YET ??????
Ah, yes. This wonderful expression of democracy we’ve been treated to here in the county of Moore for the last few months will mercifully come to an end Tuesday evening. In case you’ve been busy for the last few months, let me recap…
Pinehurst 2011: Is the V-A-T a B-U-S-T?
The Village Action Team took to the stage at the beginning of the campaign like a storm. It pushed a specific agenda and endorsed the candidacies of Nancy Fiorillo, Mark Parson, and John Cashion. The group spent a lot of money on ads in The…
Sounds like somebody’s getting a little fussy …
Boy, you ought to hear the Raleigh press corps — whining like a bunch of babies. The mean old Republicans in charge of things in the NC legislature have scheduled business for Monday, and WON’T guarantee that something newsworthy like…
Former S.C. First Lady speaks out on Herman Cain and media’s scandal fixation
Jenny Sanford was speaking from experience when she penned her op-ed that appeared Thursday in Columbia’s State newspaper. She was The Palmetto State’s first lady when her now ex-husband, then-Gov. Mark Sanford, was caught covering up an extramarital affair. Ms. Sanford has seen…
First it’s Kotter. Now it’s Bauer. (Welcome back, Andre?)
Former South Carolina lieutenant governor Andre Bauer appears to be trying for a political comeback by running for Congress in 2012: The race for who will represent the new Horry County-anchored 7th Congressional District is starting to take shape, seven…
D.C. Dems straddle fence on union vs. non-union labor at Charlotte 2012 convention
North Carolina is one of the least-unionized states in the country. The Democrat Party, which owes the unions BIG TIME, is holding its 2012 national convention in Charlotte, the largest city in one of the least-unionized states. How do you…
N&O, leftist teamwork in Wake school board race a travesty
The N&O teamed up with its former employees in Boss Bev’s press office to walk back her bizarre, baffling, stupid comments about ‘suspending elections.’ Now, the good, down-with-the-struggle comrades in the N&O newsroom are teaming up with a radical leftist PAC to…
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