North Carolina’s Mike McIntyre Is No Conservative Democrat

November 4, 2012 | Filed Under Congress, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Liberals, North Carolina, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Mike McIntyre is the 8-term, incumbent Democrat Congressman from North Carolina’s 7th Congressional District. He sells himself to the folks back home as a true “Blue Dog Democrat,” a conservative who doesn’t fall for the far left’s nonsense. But a look at his voting record does not substantiate this conclusion, as he’s voted the left’s party line far more than he lets on.

A look at his voting record between 2007 and 2010, for instance, shows that McIntyre sided with ultra left-wing Nancy Pelosi 90 percent of the time. That isn’t such an independent record, is it?

One of McIntyre’s favorite anti-lefty votes is his vote against Obamacare. Again and again McIntyre points to this vote to prove his independent streak. Of course, the truth is then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi did not need the votes of the few Blue Dogs that opted out of a yea vote to protect their status back home. It was even reported at the time that Speaker Pelosi gave these Blue Dogs dispensation to make their anti-Obamacare vote.
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No. Car. Finds 2,214 Registered Voters 110 Years of Age & Older

October 24, 2012 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, North Carolina, Progressives, Vote Fraud, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Forget hunting for the Fountain of Youth. Apparently all one need do to live forever is to register to vote Democrat in North Carolina because for the 2012 General Election, the voters roll shows that the Tar Heel State has 2,214 voters that are 110-years-old! Would you wonder if there is some voter fraud going on?

And wouldn’t you know it, most of them are Democrats, too. Not only that, but they seem to live mostly in four Democrat-controlled counties. Unsurprisingly, some of these aged voters have already voted absentee.

Further, many are even older than 110. In fact, it seems that NC has an awful lot of voters that are 112, too. The Carolina Transparency project did a review of the voter rolls this year and found that there are 631 Democrats who are 112 or older. By contrast the poor Republicans can only find 229 over 112 voters in the state (and “unaffiliated” found 39).
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Another Democrat Slams Bloggers

October 14, 2012 | Filed Under Blogging, Computers, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Government, Inernet, Liberals, North Carolina, Progressives, Technology, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Ron Hewitt ran for the Lee County School Board back in 2002. He ran as a progressive liberal but claimed fiscally conservative ideas. He won but quit not long after to pursue his own business interests outside the state of North Carolina. The assessment of his tenure was that he offered promise and delivered on nothing.

Now he’s back claiming to be an “independent” and running for a spot on the Lee County Board of Commissioners. He also appears to fear bloggers.

In the Sunday Herald on October 14, Hewett published the following ad…

Now the blogger that Mr. Hewett is so afraid of is Sheila Barber of Fresh Brewed Conservatism.

Sheila points out that Mr. Hewett isn’t even in office yet and he’s attempting to intimidate, discount, and ridicule a private citizen.

Can you trust someone who basically is trying to shut up the voice of a citizen before he’s even elected? What exactly will he do IF HE IS ELECTED? Don’t we get enough of trampling on our free speech from the Obama Administration?

She goes on to note that, “The last thing Lee County needs is someone who thinks the citizen’s voice is a blight to society! We are tired of being treated like 2nd class citizens. Mr. Hewett just did this.”

Not a good way to make a political comeback, is it, Mr. Hewett?
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Snoopy’s Tells Obama to Shove his Marxist Reductionism

July 19, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Business, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Mitt Romney, Nanny State, North Carolina, President, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

THIS is America, not Obama’s reductionist version were the only way anyone can get ahead in life is to have his big brother government push them along.

Business owner Steve Webb of Snoopy’s hot dog stand in Raleigh, North Carolina, is pleased to tell customers that Obama had nothing to do with their business succeeding.

Take that you Marxist, moron.

Folks, we have two choices for this election: Romney’s marketism or Obama’s Marxism.
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GOP HQ in NC Vandalized… Again… Where’s Media?

September 26, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, North Carolina, RightPundits.com, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

My good friend Katy Benningfield has yet another report of the Guilford County, North Carolina GOP headquarters being vandalized and it occurs to me that if this had been a Democrat campaign office the Old Media would have reported this from coast to coast as evidence of those vile, evil, dangerous, violent Tea Partiers. But since it was just a Republican office being defaced the media just yawned .

Benningfield reports that the GOP HQ had the letters “KKK” spray painted on the brick siding and various windows of the building. The county sheriff’s office has been contacted and an investigation is underway…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

South Carolina Worker Sues Federal Gov’t Over Possible Loss of His Job

June 20, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, Free Trade, Freedom, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Jobs, Labor Law, Liberals, Nanny State, NLRB, North Carolina, President, Regulation, Republicans, Right To Work, South Carolina, States Rights, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston, Washington, Washington D.C. | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama’s interference in the business operations of Boeing new Dreamliner manufacturing project will likely cause thousands of workers in South Carolina to lose their jobs. Because of this, one Palmetto State worker is suing the federal government for its part in his probable future job loss.

This is a story about Obama’s status as the top bought-and-paid-for union hack in the country and how he is attempting to use his powers to wield regulations as a tool to punish an American business for wanting to open a new manufacturing plant in South Carolina all because the president feels that a union will be hurt in the process of the creation of thousands of new jobs.

As it happens, airplane manufacturer Boeing wants to open a new manufacturing plant in South Carolina for its new Dreamliner plane because the manufacturer had been having so many union-caused troubles in its Washington State plant.
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Hypocrisy: Obama’s Stock And Trade

May 24, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Free Trade, Government, Government, Corruption, Labor Law, Liberals, NLRB, North Carolina, President, Public Employees Unions, Regulation, Right To Work, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston, Washington | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s National Labor Relations Board made itself infamous not long ago by attempting to tell Boeing in what state it was allowed to build a new manufacturing plant. Indulging his penchant toward anti-business, anti-capitalist sentiment Obama decided that he was the final arbiter on where companies were allowed to move and set up shop. Boeing was evil, you see because they wanted to get out from under the business-destroying grip of unions.

The monsters at Boeing were “retaliating” against the unions said Obama and his NLRB. Boeing was moving its plant from Washington State to North Carolina because in NC the unions have less power. So, it’s the unionista in chief to the rescue of the jobs-killing unions. Boeing needs to be slapped down for it’s evilness, don’t you know?

But, here is where Obama’s ever present hypocrisy rears its ugly head once again.
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Greenpeace Admits Coal Power a Job Creator

April 22, 2011 | Filed Under Business, Cap and Trade, Capitalism, Climate Change, Coal, Communism, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Energy, Environment, Free Trade, Global Warming, Government, Liberals, North Carolina, Socialism, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Recently the enviro-centric group Greenpeace issued an extensive report scolding the “dirty” energy choices made by tech giants like Apple, Google, and Facebook. Greenpeace is all exercised over the fact that many of these companies have moved to North Carolina to take advantage of the coal-produced energy there because the costs are cheaper than the power in other regions. Amusingly, Greenpeace seemed to have completely missed the fact that coal obviously creates jobs or all these companies wouldn’t be moving to North Carolina in the first place.

Greenpeace has its nose out of joint because Google, Facebook, and Apple have moved data centers to NC to take advantage of “low-cost energy” that it claims produces a “corresponding lack of commitment to clean energy.” The eco group is aghast that “misplaced tax incentives” bring jobs and economic success to rural North Carolina.

All that capitalism is horrible, I suppose.
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Truth in Accounting Issues: North Carolina’s ‘Financial State of the State’

January 12, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, North Carolina, Taxes, Truth in Accounting, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Institute for Truth in Accounting…

Chicago (November 29, 2010) Today, the Institute for Truth in Accounting released North Carolina’s “Financial State of the State.” After an intensive review of the State’s 2010 audited financial report the Institute determined the State is in a precarious financial position because it does not have the funds available to pay $43.4 billion of the State’s commitments as they come due. Each taxpayer’s share of this financial burden equals $16,300.

North Carolina state law requires a balanced budget. “If governors and legislatures had truly balanced the state’s budget, no taxpayer’s financial burden would exist,” said Sheila Weinberg, founder and CEO of the Institute for Truth in Accounting (IFTA). She continued, “A state budget is not balanced if past costs, including those for employees’ retirement benefits, are pushed into the future.”
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North Carolina Governor’s Gun Ban

September 10, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, North Carolina, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

It appears that North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue went to the Rahm Emanuel school of governing because hurricane Earl was a “crisis” that was “too good to waste.” Perdue used hurricane Earl as an excuse to claim that the North Carolina was in a “state of emergency” and this proclamation opens the door for an “emergency” gun ban.

On Sept. 1 as Earl was bearing down on the coast, Perdue signed Executive Order 62 in which she claimed that the state was officially in a state of emergency and that EO sets in motion statute 14-288.7 — titled “Transporting dangerous weapon or substance during emergency; possessing off premises; exceptions.” (N.C. definition of “state of emergency” can be seen in 14-288.1 definitions)
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The $5,000 Pancake

June 19, 2010 | Filed Under Business, Christianity, Economy/Finances, Education, John Armor, North Carolina, Religion, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By John Armor

Saturday a week ago I had a $5,000 blueberry pancake. Actually, I had two of them. They were just as delicious as the ones I had last fall. All of them were courtesy of the Scaly Mountain Women’s Club.

Scaly Mountain is an unincorporated community just down the Dillard Road from us, about ten miles from the intersection of the North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia borders. In the summer, Scaly Mountain swells to several thousand people. In the winter, it shrinks to a few hundred. But, there is never a shortage of fine people who willingly give their time, efforts and treasure for the benefit of others.

A lady whom we’ve met before, Kay Steele, was kind enough to tell us the history of the Women’s Club. It began 22 years ago with just 14 members. Now, it has grown to about 80 women. This is the seventh year they have run their Pancake Breakfast at the Community Center (which used to be a church, and before that was a one-room school, but more about that later).
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New NC Union-Based Political Party Fails to Get Enough Petition Signatures

June 2, 2010 | Filed Under Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Liberals, North Carolina, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Back in April we reported that unions in North Carolina banded together to try and start their own political party (as if the Democrats weren’t in thrall to them anyway). Well we are happy to report that the new North Carolina Families First Party failed to get the required number of petition signatures to authorize the effort.

This is not stopping the SEIU-based group from trying to punish North Carolina Democrats that aren’t sufficiently left-wing enough to suit them, however.

The Washington Post is reporting that the Service Employees International Union has recruited a candidate to run against first term Democrat Rep. Larry Kissell. Kissell was a “no” vote on Obamacare earlier this year.
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As We Suffer, Gov’t Salaries/Jobs/Union Pyoffs Grow

May 24, 2010 | Filed Under Business, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, North Carolina, Public Employees Unions, SEIU, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The City of Charlotte, North Carolina is still suffering an unemployment rate hovering around 12 percent. Jobs are hard to come by if you are a resident of the region, unless, of course, you work for the city government. Despite the hard times fatcats in government are still partying like it’s 1999! In fact, city salaries are likely to grow finds the Charlotte Observer.

For a whole year Charlotte City workers suffered under a pay hike freeze, but now the hard times are over as the City has announced that not only will the luxurious raises return, but more and more workers will be added to the rolls.

Let the celebration continue.
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Unions Now Starting Their Own Political Party

April 11, 2010 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Corruption, North Carolina, Public Employees Unions, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | 4 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Apparently the Democrats in North Carolina aren’t sufficiently leftist enough for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). It appears that the SEIU, one of the largest and most powerful public employees unions in the nation, don’t have their hand deep enough in the taxpayer’s pockets so it is starting its own political party in the Tar Heel State, by passing the Democrats altogether.

The party is being called North Carolina First, by which they actually mean North Carolina’s Taxes to the SEIU First. Here is what the union says about their new party:

For too long parties and politicians in Washington have worked more for their own political self interest, or worse, corporate special interests, instead of the hard working families of North Carolina.

That’s why members of progressive groups across North Carolina, including the State Employees Association of North Carolina (SEANC) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) began work to form North Carolina First to ensure that politicians put middle class families first and not their own special interests.

I mean imagine what this faux political party means, here. It means that we could have an elected official whose first loyalty is to the members of a union that makes its living off the backs of the taxpayers!
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