February 4, 2011 – 9:16 am
From my hometown of Raleigh, NC, we learn that dissent is a means to a criminal investigation David N. Cox says he was merely exercising his right to petition the government, but a state Department of Transportation official has raised allegations that Cox committed a misdemeanor: practicing engineering without a license. Cox and his North […]
February 2, 2011 – 10:36 am
As they say, elections have consequences. One consequence is that the North Carolina Republican Party is in charge of the entire General Assembly for the first time in 100 years, and, they have a few plans for Obamacare Republican leaders in the state House have scheduled debate and a possible vote Wednesday. The measure aims […]
January 15, 2011 – 4:13 pm
Is there nothing it can’t do? Put yourself in the shoes of Michael Murray, the associate superintendent of a small school district in the North Carolina foothills. He has to provide 180 days of education for his 6,000 students by June 10. This past week of unusually brutal ice and snow in the South put […]
January 12, 2011 – 11:30 am
For the most part, you haven’t heard me discuss the issue going on here in Wake County, NC, where the school board was elected to do away with the current policies and go back to local schools, which would do away with many of the issues going on with the previous policies. Originally, the school […]
December 26, 2010 – 9:58 am
Good morning! How was everyone’s Christmas? I was going to attempt to write something pithy and poignant, but, just too tired, even though I just woke up. I drove to New Jersey the night of the 23rd to see the parent for Christmas, and, because of the potential weather, drove back yesterday after an early […]
December 15, 2010 – 2:23 pm
So, now that the Republicans have taken over the North Carolina General Assembly, the Democrat governor has some interesting ideas In a rare appearance by a governor before a legislative committee, Gov. Beverly Perdue on Wednesday asked state lawmakers to keep the sessions of the General Assembly short and to create a special commission to […]
November 3, 2010 – 8:50 am
Remember, I said that what could happen in state legislatures and even the governors mansions was sliding under the radar. And in North Carolina Riding a nationwide wave of voter discontent, state Republican leaders said Tuesday that the party had seized control of the state General Assembly for the first time in more than a […]
November 1, 2010 – 11:32 am
Via Confederate Yankee, we find out In the North Carolina early voting, a growing number of Republican and Democrat voters reported that when they voted a straight Republican ticket, their votes were flipped to Democrat in North Carolina in numerous precincts by a default setting that came up and flipped the ballot to straight Democrat […]
October 27, 2010 – 4:59 pm
Hey, remember what one of the main points about Free Speech and asking for redress of grievance were to the Framers? That’s right, that government couldn’t retaliate. Of course, to Democrats, the Constitution is a living document, and screw the intentions of the Framers who spilled blood to free this country North Carolina Democrats are […]
October 19, 2010 – 5:11 pm
Yet another of a long line of “in kind” campaign contributions from the NY Times. Shocker In a troubling sign for Democrats as they head into the midterm elections, their signature tax cut of the past two years, which decreased income taxes by up to $400 a year for individuals and $800 for married couples, […]
