Over in the opinion section of the News & Observer one finds: “State Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker on Wednesday gave new details of a plan to spur economic development in North Carolina that could bring down the state’s stubbornly high unemployment rate.

“Although we’ve spent a lot of money and we’ve done a lot of good work, the needle isn’t moving, so it says to me we’ve got to do things differently,” she said.

This is great news. So how are we going to move the needle? Launch a massive state infrastructure program? Give tax credits for hiring? Cut taxes on middle-income and low-income earners to stimulate demand? Put more money into education? Reverse course on Medicaid expansion and allow billions of federal dollars to flow into the state economy?

Well, no. Decker says this is the plan: Consolidate regional and state economic development agencies and have the combined effort guided by a new private, nonprofit entity called the N.C. Economic Development Partnership…”

Read more here

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What ya wanna bet Ramsey and Moffitt and McCrory all go to work for this new private business when they are no longer “serving” the public good?

Watch them get rich selling the North Carolina to the highest bidder…

I had written a fairly angry post about Heath Shuler voting no on the health care bill; however, I deleted it because the reality is, after taking so much money from health insurance companies for the last few years, it really doesn’t shock me.

Just another multimillionaire politician, himself benefiting from government health care, who is taking money from big business and swinging their way.

For the record, I’ll not be voting for Heath Shuler again.

I might as well vote Republican: the result would be the same.

Newsmax columnist John L. Perry is calling for a military coup in America in his new column titled: Obama Risks a Domestic Military ‘Intervention’

“…Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a “family intervention,” with some form of limited, shared responsibility?

Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.

Military intervention is what Obama’s exponentially accelerating agenda for “fundamental change” toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama’s radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.

Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem. Just don’t shrug and say, “We can always worry about that later.”

Read the entire article…

Crooksandliars.com has an excellent post up, regarding the 9/12 idiocy in Washington, D.C. Right-wing websites actually used Obama inauguration pictures to bolster their claim that 2 million people took part in the march; apparently, it was more like 60-70 thousand, but thanks for playing…

Stephanie Taylor was there to document teh crazy for us. Thank you, Stephanie!

Again, my question: where were all these angry people when George Bush took us into two wars, increased the size of the federal government (i.e. Dept of Homeland Security) and doubled the national debt in eight years? Mmmmm? That’s what I thought. These protests are the stuff of fear-mongering, bed-wetting, sore losers.

Wow…