#NCSEN: A sock puppet fight over climate change
US Senator Kay Hagan (D- NC NY) — affectionately known in many of these parts as Chuck Schumer’s Sock Puppet™– lashed out at GOP nominee Thom Tillis — recently promoted to
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BarryO & Mel Watt: Co-pilots in our descent toward another mortgage crisis
Sometimes, we find ourselves debating whether Barry Obama is simply incompetent or willfully driving our economy into the toilet. Naming former North Carolina congressman Mel Watt as director of the
Continue reading#NCGA: The great revenue chase
John Drescher’s pet shih-tzu sat in on a legislative tax committee hearing for us yesterday. (Better him than us.) There were a few newsworthy items that came out of what
Continue reading#NCGA #NCGOP: Has the O-Care sellout begun?
A few weeks ago, a leader of congressional Republicans told us we need to get over our ObamaCare angst because that monstrosity is here to stay. We’ve received word out
Continue readingThe Ex-Im Bank: Corporate welfare at its, um, finest
We wrote earlier about how the reauthorization of the big federal crony capitalism trough, aka The Export-Import Bank, is coming up after the primaries. Renee Ellmers voted for it and
Continue readingO-Care spending masks true economic nightmare
A new report out there suggests that spending on ObamaCare was about the only thing preventing our economy from showing negative economic growth for the first quarter of 2014. Check
Continue readingBOHICA Alert: The Ex-Im Bank
Most of you probably haven’t heard of the Export-Import Bank. It’s not like FirstBank or BB&T. It’s a major organ of the crony capitalism game. Politicians keep it afloat with
Continue readingA House Committee on Food Desert Zones. Seriously ?????
Yep. The honorables in the House of Thom have established a committee on food desert zones. That’s desert as in Sahara, and NOT as in cherry cheesecake (YUM). What’s a
Continue readingHouse GOP helps “fix” and expand ObamaCare
Yep. ‘Fraid so. Renee Ellmers, Robert Pittenger, et. al., have told us ad nauseum about their 20-plus votes to defund ObamaCare. But it appears some recent hijinks by Speaker Boehner
Continue readingThe Paradox of Subsidies: Stuff gets more expensive as BIG GOVT deepens its involvement
Statists like to tell us bureaucracy and government subsidies make life easier and lower the cost of stuff. Health care costs getting under your skin? Obama will get the rest
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