RTP-area toll road lightly used, bleeding money. State: Let’s do SOME MORE !!!
Guess what? Evidence is suggesting that toll road projects — like the one proposed for I-77 in Mecklenburg County — may not be the
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Kay Hagan thinks the IRS NEEDS more power & stuff to do
In Washington, pols from both major parties are trampling each other to make it to a microphone and /or camera to denounce the Internal Revenue Service. In case you’ve been
Continue readingCongress (and some NC pols) helping the taxman sink his claws into the Internet
The Senate has passed something called “The Marketplace Fairness Act.” Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Who doesn’t like making stuff FAIR? Our Democrat senator, Ms. Hagan, and our Republican
Continue readingDrive-by state-run media, Dems bemoan “erosion of local control.” (Seriously. No foolin’.)
Yes, I had to do a double-take this morning after reading the lastest spin coming out of state-run media. Granted, the newly-empowered GOP has not done the
Continue readingMcClatchy crayonista fawns over “Big Boy” Barber’s performance art at NCGA
Attention Tea Partiers: McClatchy’s crayon corps says the aging former hippies, now suckling at the government teat from their tenured university positions, screaming and
Continue readingIs the heavy hand of Thom Tillis reaching into Cabarrus County politics?
Think back to 2006 with me. We had a conservative firebrand GOP legislator, representing a district near Charlotte, who was making headlines by criticizing the leadership of
Continue readingPhil Berger, Senate filet the state tax code, while Thom Tillis triangulates
Bill Clinton staged an incredible comeback in 1996, following the HillaryCare fiasco, by practicing triangulation — positioning himself somewhere between the liberalism of his fellow Democrats and the
Continue readingThe disappearance of Dan Forest
The 2012 election cycle didn’t offer a lot for Tea Partiers to get excited about. One candidate we could embrace was a tough-talking, passionate architect-turned-amateur-politician from Raleigh named Dan Forest.
Continue readingLefties seem nervous about Kay Hagan’s prospects
It’s a year before the primary vote to pick a GOP challenger to North Carolina’s “Accidental Senator.”™ No GOP candidate has officially filed for the race. People
Continue readingYour tax dollars at work: Selling American rock music to foreign consumers
Unbelievable. We have an economy in free-fall. Record numbers of people out of work. Record amounts of federal debt. Air traffic controllers being furloughed. Parks being
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