“North Carolina, United States” on The Daily Caller

We think it is neither.  Which we will explain later. (more)

Two weeks ago, Antwaun Cook lived a low-profile life. A father of two sons, he managed a Charlotte, N.C., T-Mobile store and recently joined a local real estate office as an agent. (more)

One thing we do know about economics and the effects on the federal budget: (more)

It’s been a rough week for Fantasia Barrino. (more)

Gold Star father, George Lutz, is a man on a mission. He wants to ensure that all American soldiers killed in battle are honored with a national flag to serve as a visible reminder of their sacrifice. (more)

We have had many, many people ask us over the past year what it would take to balance these budgets and get this ‘long national nightmare’ over and done with. (more)

Fantasia Barrino again is making negative headlines. The “American Idol’s winner and Broadway star is named in a North Carolina lawsuit, with Paula Cook claiming Barrino not only engaged in an affair with her husband, Antwaun Cook, but made a sex tape with him. (more)

A North Carolina nightclub owner has been charged after investigators say he allowed patrons to openly have sex in his business. (more)

Study: In Florida, every single candidate running for higher office is a jerk/toad/idiot — Sharron Angle to journalists: What have you done for me lately? — Senators explain how to waste millions of dollars that belong to someone else — Don’t count Linda McMahon out just yet — NY Budget fiasco: a curtain-raiser for the rest of America? — British artists no longer beholden to monarchy  (more)

If Karl Marx was writing today, we think he might amend his famous comment about religion and replace it with the statement above. (more)

“Things could be worse.” (more)

“But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years?” - Thomas Jefferson, September 6, 1789 (more)

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he asked Google Inc. whether it tested its Street View software before using it, which he said should have revealed the unauthorized collection of personal data from wireless computer networks. (more)

A 55-year-old North Carolina woman was taken to the hospital after her husband loaded a gun with toilet paper and shot her in the back early Tuesday morning, according to the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office. (more)

One of Plato’s most famous works is The Trial of Socrates, which outlines Socrates’ discourse with his Athenian jurors as he contests the two charges against him: corrupting the youth and impiety. The charges were notoriously vague and served as a mere vessel for a much deeper question – the legitimacy of democracy. (more)

When the NCAA handed down severe sanctions against USC last month, I wrote that the Committee on Infractions parlayed the Reggie Bush and O.J. Mayo scandals to send a message to athletic departments around the country about vigilance in monitoring star players’ relationships with prospective agents. (more)

A young North Carolina man who has moved to Yemen appears to be the editor-in-chief of a flashy new Al Qaeda magazine that features bomb-making instructions and an article by Usama bin Laden, U.S. officials said Monday. (more)

Heritage Action for America, the Heritage Foundation’s grassroots advocacy spin-off, is urging congressional leaders to sign on to Iowa Rep. Steve King’s discharge petition, aimed at repealing Obamacare. (more)

Here’s what happened the last time there was a Social Security ‘crisis’ in 1983 when incoming payroll tax receipts were just about to go below the amount of expected benefit payments going out: (more)

We all know, liberals and conservatives, that the growth of the U.S. national debt is, to use a favorite word of our time, unsustainable. (more)