In defense of 9-9-9 and other like-minded tax reform
Dr. Arthur Laffer, the brains behind supply-side economics and many of the policies that led to the boom of the Reagan era, has an interesting piece in
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Lay off Small Business
The title of this post is the same as the title for an excellent, thought-provoking op-ed a Moore County small business owner penned in a recent
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BarryO invades North Carolina AGAIN (Where’s Bev?)
We didn’t ask for it, but we got it ANYWAY. BarryO is rolling across the western end of our lovely state with his gas-guzzling, carbon-footprint-expanding bus
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Ellmers looking weak in congressional money chase
The most recent round of campaign finance reports indicate a weak showing for North Carolina’s freshman U.S. Rep Renee Ellmers (R-Dunn). Ellmers, representing the state’s Second District (which should include
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Oh look, dear. A head on a stick …
(Yes, that is a severed head on a pike at the Occupy Wall Street ‘event’ in NYC. More specifically, it is an effigy of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s
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Pinehurst 2011: Mayoral ‘qualifications’
Don’t you just love the empty buzzwords and catchphrases political candidates use in their ads? As an example, let’s look at the campaign of Pinehurst mayoral wannabe Joan Thurman. Her
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Media lets Leftist mouthpieces attack Cain’s 9-9-9 plan
You can tell who the Left fears the most by looking at who the media attacks the hardest. McClatchy Newspapers — which owns The N&O and The Charlotte Observer
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Pinehurst 2011: The Police Department
I’ve always been a huge booster of law enforcement. I have a lot of friends who put on badges and strap on their holsters to go to work every
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Exposing the expensive ‘green jobs’ myth
Environmentalist rhetoric about the wonder of ‘green’ environmentally-friendly jobs is not matching up to reality. The Washington Post, not exactly a conservative propaganda rag, has pointed out that, just
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Campaign 2011: Inside The Pilot’s endorsement deliberations
Yes, Moore County. Our thrice-weekly Pulitzer Prize winning local newspaper is in the midst of preparing its endorsements for the municipal elections in November. The paper’s editorial staff has
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