Tag: The News & Observer

Rob Christensen, that irascible leftist coot who inspired the title character in “Weekend at Bernie’s”, is back again showing his utter lack of comprehension of basic math and economic principles: For most of the 20th century, North Carolina’s income tax operated on a simple principle…

Somebody needs to get some rabies vaccine over to Low-T HQ on McDowell Street POST-HASTE: One reason that Republican state House Speaker Thom Tillis is having a tough time in his race for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan is the dismal…

      John Frank, dean of McClatchy’s school of creative writing, is back from sabbatical  with newly-sharpened crayons — ready to dazzle us with even more preposterous portside pontification (PPP™).   Mr. Frank is apparently upset that the McCrory administration is closing the state’s…

  McClatchy seems to be quite puzzled by the mystery that is Pat McCrory. Is he “the centrist mayor of North Carolina’s largest city who campaigned as someone able to work across party lines? Or is he more in line with the deep-seated conservatism that…

Gunga Din was immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in literature — and later in movies.  He was a poor, hapless, shuffling, kowtowing, water-carrying man-servant to some British soldiers in India.   The character has become synonymous with people and institutions that dutifully ask how high when someone…

    While North Carolina’s economy continues to rot. and the unemployment lines get bigger, the Democrat Party only wants to talk about gynecology.  First, the Obama campaign put up a post on its web site warning women to “vote like your lady parts depend…

  Fracking has been legalized by the legislature.  But the professional left and their transcriptionists at The N&O are still trying to scare the hell out of the ‘great unwashed’ beyond the Raleigh beltline. Yesterday, the N&O featured an item in ‘Under The Dome’ with…

Since the popular Fox series ’24’ was canceled, Agent Pierce has needed something to keep him busy.  The swashbuckling Secret Service agent has taken up residence inside the head of The N&O’s chief resident leftist bootlicker Rob Christensen. The establishment has anointed Rob as the…

  Okay.  All evidence shows that the N&O newsroom worked hand-in-hand with the governor’s office to kill the uproar over Boss Bev’s ‘suspend the elections’ speech in Cary.  At first we got told that the N&O reporter who broke the story didn’t understand that the…