Put that white flag AWAY !!!!
We’ve got a 17 percent federal spending freeze. But to hear the media tell it, we are experiencing THE END OF DAYS. CNN is running a countdown clock. We’re being
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Public education: Where does the money go?
I found a quite provocative post on a great new web site called The Federalist about North Carolina’s public school system and its finances— a subject that
Continue readingI’ll take “Comparative Queer Politics” for THREE Credit Hours, Alex.
We’ve heard ad nauseum from Big Bill Barber, his non-working, loitering rabble, and their comrades in the mainstream media about how Republicans in Raleigh are “starving education.” Never mind
Continue readingSo. We’re cutting taxes — AND SPENDING MORE ??????
The conservative revolution rolls on in The City of Oaks. The mainstream media has been regaling us all day with stories about the $20.6 BILLION budget deal reached by
Continue readingBudget brouhaha: NCGOP leaders accepting Dem premise we have revenue, not spending problem?
The GOP majority on Jones Street has passed budget packages. The House and Senate versions are both in the ballpark of $20.6 billion (hundreds of millions higher than Bev Perdue’s
Continue readingDigging a little deeper inside the faculty lounge at UNC
What’s that smell, you ask? Why it’s the patchouli-and-granola Chapel Hill-Carrboro crowd stinking up Jones Street and tying up police officers’ valuable time –– comparing themselves to MLK and protesting
Continue readingWhat’s 4’11,” has two thumbs, and will cost us $520,000 per year?
Answer: THIS WOMAN. Carol Folt, acting president of Darthmouth College, was named this week as the first female chancellor of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Continue readingWhat ever happened to CUTTING taxes AND cutting SPENDING ???
Politicians in Raleigh and DC, aided and abetted by our oft-clueless media, are railing about how the only way to fix our economic mess is to get the ‘guv-mint’
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South Carolina state government politics: a peek into NC’s future?
A lot of GOP activists in North Carolina are talking about how great it will be to have a Republican governor AND legislature in Raleigh after 2012. Well,
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GOP-controlled U.S. House: more debt in 15 months than in ALL of the first 97 Congresses COMBINED
It took nearly 200 years for previous Congresses to do what John Boehner, Eric Cantor and the rest of the Honorables have managed to do in 15
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