Burr, Bluegrass & Barbecue

Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Pig-pickin’ and politickin’ were on the menu at the Burr, Bluegrass & Barbecue event, Saturday, Aug. 28, at SMS Catering in Charlotte.

Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Pig-pickin’ and politickin’ were on the menu at the Burr, Bluegrass & Barbecue event, Saturday, Aug. 28, at SMS Catering in Charlotte.
In an effort to weed out the corruption that has plagued it for years, the Mexican government has fired nearly one-tenth of its federal police force – about 3,200 crooked cops – this year, according to this report from The L.A. Times: The cleanup is to take place nationwide and began with the federal police, [...]
It seems that a week can’t pass without another power grap from the statists in washington. Now here comes s. 510,the so-called “food safety modernization act”. This bureaucratic “bi-partisan” monstrosity empowers an expanded FDA, (almost 4000 new bureaucrats in 2010 alone and an 1 billion increased fda budget),to further drive up the cost of food [...]
CMS officials have acknowledged that they learned well in advance of the official start of this year’s football season that a Butler High player had been arrested for rape, but that Ed Shed brass failed to notify the school for more than week. As a result, Osvaldo Sombo, 17, was able to play in the [...]
Michael Jordan and the Bobcats drove the funding lane Monday with a slamdunk of a PR move, cutting one whopper of a check to help Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools fill its pay-to-play equity gap for middle school sports. WCNC runs down the details here: CMS Schools Superintendent Dr. Peter Gorman said, “This gift will mean students can [...]
Big ups to Jeff Taylor over at The Meck Deck, killing it going on five years this week with cutting-edge blogging, breaking stories, insightful commentary, and wicked sharp slices of humor. Congrats; and cheers for at least another half-decade of delivering “some sanity to the socio-politico-culturo Charlotte scene.” This is Public Image Ltd

Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Style takes center stage at the Rock the Republic Fashion Show last Friday at Pavilion at EpiCentre.
Somebody forgot to tell Myrtle Beach about the recession. Despite a sluggish economy, the South Carolina travel destination is thriving this summer; beaches are packed with bikinis, restaurants filled with hungry appetites, and hotels booked with travelers from up and down the coast and across the country. Take the Hampton Inn & Suites Oceanfront in [...]
In the days leading up to and on the morning of the “Restoring Honor” rally it was ring-around the liberal networks as every left-leaning news outlet from CBS to MSNBC attempted to paint Glenn Beck’s gathering as, “controversial and political”. On Friday, ABC ran a headline that read, “Glenn Beck’s Non Political Rally Turns [...]
Not exactly breaking news here, but you’d never know it from the MSM’s downplay of what should’ve been an across-the-board, above-the-fold lead story. The Obama Administration has scuttled plans to prosecute terrorist Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who allegedly masterminded the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 sailors and leaving dozens more [...]