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Our friend Piedmont Publius called attention to the fact that Asheville was running city buses to and from the Michelle Obama rally at UNCA not too long ago. At Tuesday’s city council meeting, activist Mike Fryar informed members of council that the two buses, which covered a total of [...]
Not long after marriage because the cause du jour of gay activists, the term “marriage equality” came to define their movement. So prominent has this term become that a google search (with the expression in quotation marks) yields over 2 million hits. No fewer than 2,884 news articles [...]
As I noted in a previous post, yesterday was an exciting, but strange day for me. Part of it was the number of items on my plate, having the chance to write for a larger audience than this blog about an issue to which I have devoted much thought [...]
Sometime this week (or was it last?), I sorted through the clutter of notes on my desk and made a list of posts I’d like to write on marriage. With yesterday’s California Supreme Court decision, the clutter has grown as I’ve been scribbling down myriad ideas for new posts [...]
Roy Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality says the policies pushed by environmental activists and passed into law by intimidated lawmakers are jeopardizing civil rights advances paid for in blood during the ’50s and ’60s:
Laws and policies that restrict access to America’s abundant energy drive up the price [...]
That’s a quote from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) in this terrific audio interview with The Economist’s “Democracy in America.” (It’s the 3rd item in the first row of features.) Sen. Coburn was responding to a question from the interviewer about what happens when Sen. Coburn’s constituents ask him to [...]
This is a very interesting — and somewhat frightening — Economist piece on the downsides of the digital age and what it means for the future of education and our democracy. From the piece:
According to Mark Bauerlein, an English professor at Emory University and author of “The Dumbest Generation”, [...]
Kristin Butler is a recently graduated Duke student who wrote a regular column for The Chronicle, the student newspaper. She was, from the start in the spring of 2006, skeptical of the allegations made by accuser Crystal Mangum that three lacrosse players raped her. Butler’s hard-hitting columns won her the [...]
To the amazement of many, North Carolina currently doesn’t require a photo ID to vote. This Daily Tar Heel editorial applauds the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld, in a 6 to 3 ruling, an Indiana law that does require a photo ID.
That’s one of the main points made by a consultant hired to re-organize and improve downtown Shallotte. How exactly did she put it?
“If the community embraced the idea of energy-efficient homes, it will make Shallotte stand out, and that’s a great marketing tool for the community,” she said.
It’s one [...]
Some journalists who don’t like what one conservative columnist in Minneapolis has written about a Muslim charter school there is taking the typical left-wing approach to someone who disagrees with the lefty journalistic orthodoxy. They’re trying to get her fired.
An online petition demanding her ouster has been signed by [...]
Hmmm. Looks like we are ending an era this year even if Fox-Hurney come back. The Panthers scouting operating has a ton of new faces.
[...]In the never-ending campaign to scare the hell out of us, government-paid environmental zealots have come up with RWIs, or recreational water illness. I found this (scroll down) on The Herald-Sun’s Web site:
The state divisions of Environmental Health and Public Health, as part of national Recreational Water Illness Prevention [...]
In most places, people grow up hearing the advice to avoid making Politics and Religion topics of conversation.
In North Carolina, there are a few other topics that should be added to that list. Favorite NASCAR Team? ACC Basketball Rivalries?
Well, those are big issues. But neither is as big as Barbecue in NC.
Depending [...]
Today’s N&R lead editorial addresses the current situation with the Randleman Dam pump station. Apparently, the Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority and the City of Greensboro just couldn’t get together on the project, even after the City Council signed off on it:
Greensboro quit trying to pump up a regional [...]
I am not delusional enough to think that this isn’t the proverbial “Democratic year.” At one level, I can’t believe this nation would elect a President whose public statements suggest appeasing the enemy in a time of war declared upon this nation by a worldwide radical movement.
On another level, I [...]
But unlike Abraham Lincoln fighting what he believed was right, GPW would rather have other people do it. Well, I’m not complaining. Having one less shrine to build is more than any one can wish for.
And I didn’t even know you were on the Official [...]
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Democrats Setting Themselves Up to Lose… Again?
