September 5, 2010 – 3:42 pm
How’s that swamp draining working out for ya, Nancy P.? North Carolina Congressman G.K. Butterfield is one of a half-dozen federal lawmakers facing an ethics probe for allegedly pocketing portions of his taxpayer-funded travel stipend. The investigation comes on the heels of calls for Butterfield, a Democrat representing the state’s 1st Congressional District, to return […]
July 9, 2010 – 9:39 pm
If you’re inviting a Baptist pastor to lead a prayer in the South, yeah, the name of Jesus is going to be mentioned. Unfortunately, he ran into modern Democrats A North Carolina pastor was relieved of his duties as an honorary chaplain of the state house of representatives after he closed a prayer by invoking […]
June 29, 2010 – 7:00 am
It seems that that at least one person took exception to a certain billboard A billboard that was put up by an atheist group that purposely omitted references to God has been defaced — and had the words ‘under God’ added. The billboards were put up in Charlotte and across North Carolina the week of […]
June 17, 2010 – 8:09 pm
News from WRAL Raleigh The arrest of a man in Kosovo revealed new details into the FBI investigation of the eight Triangle-area men suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in the U.S. and overseas. Bajram Asllani, 29, an ethnic Albanian and native of Mitrovico, Kosovo, was convicted of terrorism in Serbia and was under surveillance in […]
June 15, 2010 – 7:04 am
Just imagine for a moment, if you will, that Bob Etheridge (D-NC2) was a Republican. The media coverage would not be quite so flattering. Editorials would be written about how bad this incident was. They would demand a criminal investigation, and, perhaps, well, probably, demand he resign. Instead, we get The video was harsh. There […]
June 14, 2010 – 12:42 pm
My question is, why is Etheridge not in jail yet? Why has he not been arrested? I heard about this this a.m. on the Morning Rush (106.1 Raleigh), hadn’t had a chance to blog it, via Big Government Of course, the main paper for North Carolina, the Raleigh News and Observer, was kinda obliged to […]
June 11, 2010 – 12:00 pm
Y’all remember this big story from Wednesday and Thursday? A man slugged Nathan Tabor, the chairman of the Forsyth County Republican Party, in the face during a protest Tuesday in Greensboro. You can hear the smack on the video and watch the man’s fist make contact with Tabor’s face. And lots of people have. That […]
April 22, 2010 – 5:21 pm
Unshockingly, yet another Democrat, this time my Senator, Kay Hagan, had a bit of the “woops, a tough question, gotta run” syndrome (Via Hot Air from The Right Scoop) Ed Morrissey Time flies when you’re having … to dodge a question you can’t answer. Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) “scoots†almost as soon as the hosts […]
March 22, 2010 – 7:20 pm
This was on my way home, right outside my complex A shooting killed one person and wounded another Sunday evening at the intersection of Skycrest Drive and Southall Road, the Wake County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. Both victims were taken to WakeMed where Nigel J. Ellison was pronounced dead, acording to the sheriff’s office. […]
February 18, 2010 – 10:19 am
It’s probably raaaaacist for me to even blog this Durham police arrested Duke lacrosse accuser Crystal Gale Mangum, 33, late Wednesday after she allegedly assaulted her boyfriend, set his clothes on fire in a bathtub and threatened to stab him. Authorities charged her with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating […]
