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House Speaker Thom Tillis is under siege. We have been reporting here that we continue to pick up rumors on Jones Street and from Administration operatives that there is a broad and deep resentment growing against Tillis' high-handed method of operating....more >> |
Why would the Sheriff not want the public to see those deplorable conditions he claims are present in the current jail? The law requires that every year the local Grand Jury inspect all county jails and file a report on the conditions they find. That inspection took place in Beaufort County recently. Sheriff Jordan and Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons refused to allow the Commissioners to accompany the Grand Jury....more >> |
NBC News is reporting: A top IRS official scheduled to testify Wednesday before the House Oversight committee has notified Congress that she will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions. ...more >> |
Daily HaymakerThe more things change the more they stay the same. Or so it would seem in the NC House of Representatives under the current GOP Leadership. Brant Clifton says "Seems like ole times....more >> |
Have you ever noticed that while liberals often mean well, they simply have not come to grips with reality? The Law of Unintended Consequences wreaks havoc with much of what passes as "environmentalism....more >> |
The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners heard a report at their regular monthly meeting on May 6, 2013 that was a devastating indictment of the poor planning the former Superintendent (Jeff Moss), the previous School Board, the former County Manager (Paul Spruill) and the Gang of Five (Jerry Langley, Robert Cayton, Ed Booth, Jay McRoy and Al Klemm) have wrecked on the taxpayers of Beaufort County and the school children for a generation....more >> |
CNSNews is reporting: The head of the National Treasury Employee Union (NTEU), which represents employees of the Internal Revenue Service, met with President Barack Obama in the White House one day before the manager of the IRS's "Technical Unit" suggested establishing a "Sensitive Case Report" for the tax-exempt status applications of Tea Party groups, according to data from the official White House visitor log and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. ...more >> |
Susan Jones, writing for CNSNews is reporting: President Obama "was kept up to date" on the terror attack in Benghazi "throughout the entire night, from the moment it started until the very end," the president's senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told "Fox News Sunday....more >> |
CBS Houston is reporting: A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph....more >> |
We've already said we think the Johnston County Board of Education was wrong in the Cole Withrow case of a student who had a weapon (shotgun) locked in his truck on school campus. But fortunately some educators still have some common sense. Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. is one of them. Thank you Lord....more >> |
In what some believe/hope will be a harbinger of things to come in Charlotte when the NC GOP Convention convenes in two weeks, Saturday saw a conservative sweep in the Virginia Republican convention....more >> |
Juxtapose these two stories and you learn why some bills introduced in the Legislature with fine sounding titles are actually a bad idea....more >> |
At this month's Washington City Council meeting the council heard a report on the proposed development of the remaining acreage known locally as the Moss Planing Mill site. Raleigh developer Jim Wiley, President of Beacon Street, made a presentation which you can review in the video below:
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Rep. Mike Speciale continues to impress us. He has co-sponsored what may very well become one of the most important bills in this year's General Assembly. But it has gotten very little notice and is not something that will garner many votes for its sponsors, but it could make a paradigm shift in the way local government operates in North Carolina....more >> |
Peggy Noonan, writing in the Wall Street Journal, we think, hits the nail on the head when she says: We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate....more >> |
WRAL has a quick review of bills that got killed (supposedly) in the General Assembly by not making it through one house before "cross-over deadline" this week: House and Senate lawmakers acted on 259 bills this crossover week, but hundreds more didn't make the deadline....more >> |
60 Minutes recently reported: The odds are you are not just a face in the crowd any longer. Even if your picture isn't plastered all over social networking and photo-sharing sites, facial recognition technology in public places is making it harder if not impossible to remain anonymous. ...more >> |
President Obama, trying to tap down the controversy of the IRS targeting conservative groups with illegal actions, said what happened was inexcusable and that he is angry about it. Then he appoints the person who was the head of the witch-hunt to head up...more >> |
Turns out the student was lying. It also turns out that school officials knew he was lying from the get-go. So why are the hullabaloo? WRAL TV is reporting: A Johnston County teen who was arrested and suspended after bringing two unloaded shotguns to school said Thursday that he lied to the principal about forgetting the guns were in his vehicle....more >> |
A 4 year of boy died Wednesday after he was left in a closed car in the sun. The Asheville Citizen Times reports:Family members of a 4-year-old boy who died Wednesday after being left in a hot car say they still aren't sure how the accident happened. ...more >> |
The Winston-Salem Journal is reporting:Charlotte-based Belk Inc. found itself in the middle of an online battle between political partisans this week, when an ad featuring the company ran on conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh's radio show. ...more >> |
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is reported to have said Wednesday (5-15-13) "My question isn't about who's going to resign (over the IRS scandal) but who's going to jail?"
And in that response we see on clear display what has caused the corruption in Washington in recent years: An ineffective Republican "loyal opposition....more >> |
It should be obvious to anyone now that Barack Obama stole the last election, and perhaps even his first election. Obama won in 2012 simply because over 7 million conservative voters did not vote. These voters voted for John McCain in 2008 but did not vote in 2012. Now we know why. Voter turnout was suppressed by the IRS....more >> |
We thought you might be interested in a story Ann McAdams with WECT in Wilmington did recently on where the money that is paid in "court costs" actually goes. Here's her report:Driving too fast can get you a speeding ticket. ...more >> |
The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners were less than thirty minutes into their budget workshop before it was all over. Well, not exactly over in the sense of being finished, but over in the sense that the die is cast....more >> |
This article, written by Tami Fitzgerad, the Executive Director of the NC Values Coalition, appeared in the May 12, 2013 Charlotte ObserverOne year ago last week, 61 percent of North Carolinians voted to preserve the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman in our state Constitution. ...more >> |
For Love of God and CountryCommon Core is an educational curriculum being forced upon the states by the Obama administration, which is scheduled to be mostly implemented this year in the 46 states that have adopted it....more >> |
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