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Biden’s Team Doesn’t Help Him Much
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online highlights a recent example of President Biden’s staff hurting his cause. At the beginning of last month, Zeke Miller of the Associated Press offered…
The Sopranos
American crime drama television series (1999–2007)
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Another N&R writer goes enters the witness protection program
Just last night I was watching an episode of my favorite TV program “The Sopranos,” and in one scene the dialogue centered around characters who had (wink wink) entered the…
Health Care
Obama administration’s political hardball on Medicaid expansion
North Carolina is not mentioned in the article, but you can bet top Tar Heel officials are paying attention to the shenanigans described in this Bloomberg Businessweek account of recent…
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GPD: 10-100
Still on the Rhino, Hammer writes that GPD officers “often say that you hear hear ’10-100′ frequently now, the radio term which means there is no unit available to respond.”…
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NC bloggers need your votes
The 2007 Weblog Awards are under way and several North Carolina bloggers, or bloggers with North Carolina ties, are finalists. Charlotte’s Sister Toldjah and John Hawkins’ Right Wing News are…
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Understanding Decker
The Journal’s Scott Sexton doesn’t quite buy Michael Decker’s ‘confession is good for the soul’ rap: A cynic, like me for example, might even say that it proves long-held suspicions…
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More Black
The Journal wonders if the post-Jim Black climate in Raleigh really has changed: Legislators have shown some understanding that the climate has changed. Reports out of Raleigh indicate that they…
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Fear into Hyperdrive
Let’s get this straight. You take $70 million in half-cent transit tax revenue out of a $1.4 billion Charlotte city budget and the first spending you have to cut is…
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Congressional hair
Radar Online has a review of some of the more entertaining hairstyles in Congress. Our own Rep. David Price is mentioned: Rep. Price, the otherwise candid author of the revelatory…
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The real tainted money
The leftist argument for opposing a possible grant to UNC by the Pope Foundation is that because of the Pope?s conservative political views the money would be ?tainted.? But in…
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Postscript
By the way, Michael Corleone is one of my two favorite sages. The other is Tony Soprano whose wisdom on parenting was summed up when responding to a high school…
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“New Jersey has recently started taxing visiting lawyers”
There are so many places to go with this I don’t even know where to begin. You got your Sopranos jokes, your Turnpike jokes, your Atlantic City jokes all mixed…