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Forty-year-old business analyst Ken Nelson has filed to run for Mecklenburg County School Board. Married, with a three-year-old daughter, Nelson has been a Charlotte resident since 2006. This will be his second run for a School Board seat, being narrowly defeated in 1997 in his hometown of Clark, NJ. Nelson is known locally as a […]
Through all it’s twists and turns, the three year old trial of Casey Anthony finally came to an end yesterday with a verdict that many consider shocking. Anthony was found guilty on four counts of lying to investigators, but not of killing Caylee Anthony, her two year old daughter. While this case didn’t involve a high profile […]
It may be months before Halloween, but there is a fiend hiding in plain sight just waiting to pounce on the uninformed American citizen. That fiend is dressed as an entitlement monster, and that monster is about to attack. Thanks to House Guest Frank Hill for providing some charts courtesy of the Congressional Budget Office. […]
The proposed North Carolina House District boundaries intended to comply with the federal Voting Rights Act were released to the public late last Friday afternoon and it is fair to say that not all are embracing the new districts with open arms. It is not only democrats who are raising questions either. According to the […]
Four years ago last month I had already made my decision for whom to vote in the Republican Primary election for President. My support for Mike Huckabee came after an ever so brief bout of support for Mitt Romney. (Boy oh boy does it hurt to admit that given what I’ve since come to realize […]
Beverly Perdue was the first North Carolina Governor to veto a state budget. She is now the first North Carolina Governor to have her budget veto overridden. While it was widely reported that the Thom Tillis led North Carolina House would vote to override the veto on Wednesday, it came as a surprise when it […]
Any speculation as to whether Governor Perdue would veto the recently passed North Carolina budget was put to rest on Sunday when she did what any good partisan running for reelection would do…she vetoed it and proceeded to send a fundraising email to supporters the following day claiming that the Republican-drawn budget will do “generational damage” to […]
For those who missed it, South Carolina Congressman Mick Mulvaney hosted a town hall meeting on June 8, 2011 in Lake Wylie, SC. He began with a roughly half an hour long presentation on the dire fiscal situation that the US finds itself in and then took questions from the audience. This is the video […]
If there were any doubt that the Tea Party remains alive and active, attending the North Carolina Republican Convention last weekend would have put those doubts to rest. The heavily attended convention in Wilmington was filled with celebratory members of the GOP who for the first time in over a century could come to convention […]
Never one to fear a good counter protest, I’d like to encourage folks to attend Congressman Mick Mulvaney’s Town Hall meeting in Lake Wylie tonight. Mick is one of the “good guys”, as evidenced by the planned protest by Organizing for America. From CAUTION and Freedomworks: Organizing For America (OFA), President Obama’s well-funded political outfit, […]