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Texas Top State for Business, California Worst

May 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment

For the fifth year in a row, CEOs rated Texas as the #1 state in which to do business and California as the worst, according to a Chief Executive magazine survey. North Carolina maintained its #2 rank, while Tennessee rose two positions to the #3 spot. Virginia was up three slots from last year to [...]

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Reagan Puts Obama to Shame on Subject of Taxes

April 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments

Yesterday in Charlotte, N.C., President Barack Obama gave a response to a woman’s question about Americans being over-taxed.  What’s newsworthy about it is the fact that it contained almost 2,600 words and lasted 17 minutes.  The president’s answer is contained in the first three videos below.  I encourage you to watch them all and then [...]

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Guitar Hero Final Four TV Spot Makes Me Laugh

March 30th, 2009 · No Comments

By featuring four college basketball coaching legends in a television commercial that parodies the most-famous scene from the film, Risky Business, the folks at Guitar Hero® proved they have a good sense of humor. Airing moments after the my Oklahoma Sooners lost to North Carolina in the NCAA South Regional Championship Sunday afternoon, the spot [...]

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What Image Will Obama Strive to Project?

May 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Now that Barack Obama appears to have secured Democratic primary victories in North Carolina and Indiana tonight, political pundits have started talking about the image the junior senator from Illinois will strive to project in his general election effort to attract voters. If Obama is honest, I expect him to use campaign imagery that carry [...]

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Support Your Team With Championship Gear

April 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Attention, college basketball fans: While the Kansas Jayhawks battle the Memphis Tigers in the NCAA Men’s Division 1 Championship Game tonight in San Antonio, be sure to visit The Championship Shop to find anything and everything you need to show support for your favorite team.    VS.   Featured on the site today are all four [...]

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What is the Next Best Thing to Chicken and Sex?

October 29th, 2007 · 9 Comments

At 11:25 a.m. (CST) today, I received a veiled death threat — “looks like its time for you to die” — from someone who goes by the screen name “JACOB” and appears to believe U(+) t3h flip m4st3r (+) is The Next Best Thing to Chicken and Sex. Curious? Let me explain as best I [...]

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Clinton and Edwards Hatch Scheme on Open Mic

July 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Word of advice to presidential candidates: Make sure your microphone is off before you hatch a scheme to undermine the ability of voters to make an informed choice for president. In the video below, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and former North Carolina senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) were caught by Fox News microphones discussing plans to [...]

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