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On Saturday Night Live, guest host Jamie Foxx told the amped-up crowd now in his new movie, Django Unchained, he gets to "kill all the white people ... How GREAT is that?" The live audience erupted in cheers and laughter.

Here we go again, Obama Rapture Redux: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyWIcmBYUBcAmazing. Meanwhile Obama and company are all over the airwaves calling for tax hikes on the rich because a few billion will fix everything, which is complete baloney: I’m simply staggered at the number of things that raising taxes on the rich is now supposed to fix. A partial list: Our crumbling roads, our cracked bridges, our decaying electrical grid, our failing schools, our bankrupt entitlements, our reliance on fossil fuels, and our over-extended public pensions. But why will billions more dollars succeed when trillions of dollars have failed? We pour more money...

<p>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and defenders of the health care reform law unearthed an unexpected and temporary ally Monday night: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC).</p> <p>Politics makes strange bedfellows. But few bunking arrangements are stranger than this.</p> <p>To be clear, there aren't many in Congress who have more antipathy for the health care law than Foxx. In fact, at a meeting of the House Rules Committee Monday night, Foxx could barely hide her contempt for the health law.</p>

Raleigh, N.C. – John Lassiter has taken a 50-46 lead in Public Policy Polling’s final survey of the Charlotte Mayoral race, an outcome that is still within the poll’s margin of error. White undecideds moved in Lassiter’s direction over the final days, giving him a staggering 68-29 lead with that group. Foxx leads 86-12 with African Americans. Lassiter leads 51-40 with independents, continuing a double digit lead he’s shown with those voters in every poll of the race. He’s also winning 17% of the Democratic vote while Foxx is only getting 9% of Republicans to cross over. The primary reason...

Detained Academy Award-winning director and convicted sex offender Roman Polanski may have the support of some famous faces in the film industry, but don’t count Jamie Foxx among them. According to the actor, he only needs to imagine the 1977 case against Polanski is a personal one to find his feelings. “If it had been my daughter who was barely a teenager — my daughter is 15 — Roman Polanski would be missing ... period,” Foxx stated in an interview with Parade magazine

Jamie Foxx launched a crude attack on teen sensation Miley Cyrus on his Sirius satellite radio show, saying: "Make a sex tape and grow up!"

Celebrity Buzz It's true! On his Sunday radio show, he wished Miley would get a gum transplant, make a sex tape with her dad, do heroin like Britney, smoke crack like Lindsay Lohan and finally, “catch chlamydia from a bicycle seat.” Woah. Miley start using grocery bags on your bike seats! We can't say for sure that Jamie hasn't sabotaged your a...

Jamie Foxx is the latest celebrity to stand up and celebrate, following Barack Obama’s victory in the presidential election. “It was absolutely incredible,” Jamie told Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson in an exclusive interview. “I’m standing around all dudes and we are breaking out in tears.” When Shaun caught up with Jamie on the set of his new music video, “Just Like Me,” the Oscar winner said Obama’s victory has instilled a sense of “responsibility” in all African-Americans. “I don’t know how people felt but I know how I felt, as far as being an African-American male,” Foxx added. “I speak...

Jamie Foxx is breaking down racial barriers — starting at his front door.The actor, who has been campaigning tirelessly to get reformed gang leader Stan (Tookie) Williams off Death Row, admits he once refused to let more than one white man into his house."When I was 15, I went to play the piano for this white guy's Christmas party" in Texas, Foxx says. But when he and a friend showed up at the client's mansion, the host stopped them, saying, "I can't have two n— in my house at one time."Foxx says he was forced to send his friend home,...

Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) let slip a bombshell disclosure at a news conference today to announce a bill targeting states that allow illegal aliens to get drivers licenses. During the Q&A with reporters, Myrick gave as a reason for proposing the bill the recent capture of three al Qaeda terrorists at the U.S.-Mexico border. A check of Google News turned up no references to this incident, yet Myrick stated this was a 'given fact.' No reporter asked her about this revelation, but it was noted at the end of a Charlotte Observer article by Tim Funk. Two Representatives from North...

RALEIGH – During the two heartbreaking weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities, Congress passed two separate relief bills totaling $62.3 billion. Supporters portrayed the aid packages as emergency measures and desperately needed. But six weeks later, according to media reports, the federal government has spent or contracted to spend only about a quarter of the money, or $16.2 billion. Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco expressed disappointment with the relatively slow spending pace, but other politicians and observers – including members of Congress – have registered their satisfaction that careful analysis and bidding procedures have preceded...

We have a serious problem here in North Carolina – a problem that can have serious ramifications on our national security. According to the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, we live in one of 10 states that permits anyone to receive state issued driver’s licenses or identification cards without providing proof of their legal status. While this may at first seem insignificant, you may recall that each of the terrorists who hijacked the airplanes on Sept. 11, 2001 held valid driver’s licenses or identification cards. Those little pieces of plastic granted a false sense of legitimacy and helped the...

Foxx calls for runoff in 5th District. Runoff election is August 17.

Robinson's aggressiveness divides, becomes issue

Foxx calls for runoff in 5th District The Associated Press July 28, 2004   7:23 am WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- State Sen. Virginia Foxx has notified the State Board of Elections that she wants a runoff in the Republican primary for the 5th Congressional District, but her opponent says she should withdraw from the race.Winston-Salem Council Member Vernon Robinson, who outpolled Foxx in the primary, said that Foxx should follow the lead of Richard Vinroot, who said last Thursday that he would not ask for a runoff in the Republican primary for governor. Vinroot finished second to Patrick Ballantine."If she is...

WINSTON-SALEM | "Grass, paper, Monk." When Jay Helvey says the words, he sounds like he's playing the traditional children's game, "Paper, rock, scissors." What he's really doing is describing the beginning of one of the world's great resumes. In something of a Horatio Alger story, Helvey, 45, the child of teachers Jim and Doris Helvey of Lexington, has parlayed a classic local childhood work experience of the 1960s and '70s - mowing yards, delivering The Dispatch, hopping curb at Lexington Barbecue, applying veneer finishes at Carolina Panel Co. - into great success in academia and the business world. He served...

Fifth District race getting interesting Many political observers in the Triad think that the entrance of Ed Broyhill into the congressional race hurts state Sen. Virginia Foxx the most. She was counting on her base of support outside of Forysth County, and particularly in the northwestern mountain counties, to at least get her into a runoff with one of the many Forysth candidates. But Broyhill has obvious connections, family and personal, in many of those same counties. One of those competing for the nomination,Nathan Tabor of Kernersville, reportedly fired a previous set of consultants because they had proposed a campaign...