July 28, 2006 – 3:05 pm
Are you kidding me? It's July 28th. And they have done almost nothing: The General Assembly finished its work for the year early Friday after agreeing to new lobbying and ethics rules for legislators and executive branch officials, capping a session that saw video poker machines banned and the minimum wage raised. Wrapping up a […]
July 21, 2006 – 1:52 pm
Last Thursday, July 18th, it was originally report that a whole slew of illegal aliens were busted at Fort Bragg, in Fayetteville, NC. And, now, the contractors who hired them are under investigation: FORT BRAGG — Nine contractors at Fort Bragg are being investigated for hiring the 58 workers who were detained for trying to […]
July 17, 2006 – 7:04 am
Ya know, I have asked liberals many, many times, online and in person, what Rights they have lost due to President Bush and/or the GOP Congress. So far, it is just er, um, well, you see, what might happen. Even the ACLU cannot say with honesty that any Americans have lost Rights do to any […]
July 12, 2006 – 6:18 pm
Despite a massive, convoluted process, pure petty politics, the NC General Assembly has OK'd the use of the Pledge in NC schools: The General Assembly approved Tuesday a requirement that school districts set time daily in school for students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. The measure also required schools to teach about the meaning […]
June 21, 2006 – 1:31 pm
Looks like someone down in the Queen City (Charlotte, NC, for y'all non-NC folks) has a bit of penis envy. Tom Sorensen, of the Charlotte Observer, does his best to rain on the Hurricanes, and their fans, parade: Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals was one of the biggest games ever played in North […]
June 19, 2006 – 10:55 am
Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong is a little upset. Not over the way he himself has handled the Duke Rape Case, but, over the media treatment, including blogs, in the latest Newsweek (via Wizbangblog) Asked for an interview last week by NEWSWEEK, Nifong declined, but sent an angry e-mail accusing the national media of getting spun […]
June 16, 2006 – 12:56 pm
This is pretty wild A small earthquake shook buildings and rattled dishes in at least four Western North Carolina counties Thursday night, the seventh noticeable temblor to shake the region in the past year. There were no reports of damage in the 3.1-magnitude quake, centered 28 miles north of Franklin and felt from Maggie Valley […]
June 14, 2006 – 9:15 pm
Well, that was fun today. Not much wind, but plenty of water. But, it wasn’t fun for everyone: Nearly eight inches of rain fell in the Raleigh area and other parts of central North Carolina, flooding roads and low spots Wednesday as the remnants of the season’s first named tropical storm slowly churned through the […]
June 9, 2006 – 7:14 pm
At what point does Nifong dismiss the charges or a rational, law abiding judge step in and end this charade, much less legal disaster? When Durham police and prosecutors asked a judge for permission to collect photos and DNA from 46 Duke University lacrosse players, they said a woman had reported being beaten, choked and […]
June 4, 2006 – 10:31 am
Here’s a story that slipped under the radar of the big media outlets: Sen. Elizabeth Dole became the first member of Congress to meet with the new Iraqi prime minister when she quietly traveled to his country last weekend. Dole, a North Carolina Republican, told The Charlotte Observer that she and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki […]
