The rise of the freelance economy
The folks at George Mason U.’s Mercatus Center have come out with a pretty interesting study: Are we becoming a nation of freelancers? Some fear that traditional employment is ending,
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Republican leaders STRUGGLE to find votes to up debt limit
Good. That’s the headline we’re faced with this week: Congressional Republicans say they are short of the votes for raising the debt limit and avoiding a first-ever government default.
Continue readingA sobering look at NC’s fiscal health
The Moral Monday rabble dirtying up the streets in Winston-Salem right now likes to tell us how North Carolina is going to hell in a handbasket since the GOP took over
Continue readingFollowing in Greece’s footsteps?
The drivebys and the “wise men” in DC and on Wall Street are tut-tutting about the mess in Greece. (Thom Tillis says his “ancestral homeland” could learn something from North
Continue reading#ncga: Pay raises for Speaker Moore’s staff. A gas tax hike for US.
The drive-bys gave us a peek at the salaries of all of new House speaker Tim Moore’s staff. Most staffers got raises in the ballpark of twenty percent. One
Continue readingObama. On EVERY FRICKIN’ CHANNEL …
I am sure many of you rushed home last night, cleared your schedule, and camped out in front of the TV awaiting breathlessly the latest pronouncements of our Dear Leader.
Continue reading#ncga: A ploy to ratchet up state spending?
I stumbled across something interesting yesterday while nosing through cyberspace. State Rep. David Lewis (R-Harnett) released some documentation for the legislature’s Revenue Laws Committee meeting yesterday. (Even though they
Continue readingWalter Jones: Boehner & co. “screwing over the American people” with spending bill
He’s added his name to a letter seeking a short-term government funding bill that defunds any agency that would facilitate amnesty. Now, congressman Walter Jones is criticizing his caucus’s leadership
Continue readingNational defense bill loaded with non-military pork (like Renee’s museum)
The US House is loading up a defense authorization bill with so much non-defense related pork that even The Washington Post is appalled: A sweeping $521 billion package that authorizes
Continue readingGive me liberty, or give me birth control pills !!! #SMH
The Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision offered a fantastic opportunity for the GOP to deliver a lesson to the American people about religious liberty and the overreach of government. Declining
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