The national fight over the looming implementation of Obamacare has been headquartered right here in North Carolina over the past two days. Indeed, longer than that, as nearly three weeks ago freshman Congressman Mark Meadows of NC’s 11th District began circulating Utah Senator Mike Lee’s letter calling for a defunding effort that would be tied […]
After months of speculation, South Carolina’s version of John McCain now has an official primary challenger. At a rally on Saturday in Charleston, Nancy Mace, daughter of Brigadier General James E. Mace and the first woman to graduate from the Citadel, outlined her vision for her race against Lindsey Graham. Thanks to Chuck Suter of Constitutionalwar.org […]
Leaders of Conservative and TEA Party organizations from around the country joined Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell yesterday in demanding that the broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, and NBC – stop censoring coverage of the ongoing IRS targeting scandal. According to the MRC, when news first broke that the IRS was targeting conservative groups – […]
This Thursday, and probably the days leading up to it, you will surely hear a number of people wishing you a “Happy 4th of July”. The sentiment is well intended, but unfortunately less meaningful than it could be. You see, it isn’t a date we’re celebrating. We don’t wish people a “Merry December 25th!!”. No, […]
As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said in his Memorial Day address in 1884 at Keene, Memorial Day ‘celebrates and solemnly reaffirms from year to year a national act of enthusiasm and faith.’ With changing times, Memorial Day is more celebrated as a holiday than the glum occasion it was meant for. We must remember that […]
The monthly meeting of the Charlotte Bastiat Society was held last week with speaker Robert Hellebush, the managing director of the original Bastiat Society in Charleston, SC. He gives a very enjoyable primer to Capitalism in this presentation. Recommended viewing by all.
eBay President John Donahoe, in a just released letter to eBay customers, invites citizens to contact Congress in opposition to the “Marketplace Fairness Act” which will require online retailers to collect state sales tax regardless of their physical presence in a particular state. Apparently not wanting to miss an opportunity for self-aggrandizement, the letter also […]
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died after suffering a stroke. “It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning,” Thatcher spokesperson Lord Bell said in a statement. Thatcher, an outspoken woman known to many as “The Iron Lady,” was […]
A local group of Republican political activists will be gathering to call attention to the actions taken by the RNC against grassroots conservatives at the 2012 National Republican Convention. This protest will be focused on the party rule changes and systematic disenfranchisement of delegates, actions that were overseen and railroaded through by Party leadership in a premeditated undemocratic fashion at […]
Following the national defeat of Republicans last November, all the pundits, politicians, and prognosticators chimed in to offer their two cents worth of rationale as to why our side lost. Opinions were all over the spectrum, as expected, but one common thread that seemed to unite the theories (as well as prove it’s own point) is that the Republican Party has lost its brand.