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Memo to DNC: Handouts are not a road to success
By Phil Van Hoy | September 6, 2012

The delegates represent an amalgam of various single-issue groups, unions, pro-abortion, feminism, black influence, anti-corporate, homosexuals, pro-Palestinians and others.

So who is paying for all this security?
By Phil Van Hoy | From the Right | September 5, 2012

People who think politicos know best about how we should live our lives should consider the following observations from Wednesday at the DNC:

Is Charlotte going soft on the DNC protests?
By Phil Van Hoy | Special to The Observer | September 4, 2012

Uptown Charlotte on Tuesday continues to seem like a foreign place to us natives, with all the barricades, police, demonstrators and politicos.

Phil Van Hoy: Tryon Street turns to the Left
By Phil Van Hoy | September 3, 2012
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Although there were no big political events on Monday open to the public, there were plenty of things and people, mostly people, to observe in uptown Charlotte.

A protest lacking punch
By Phil Van Hoy | September 2, 2012

Marshall Park this weekend was like a time warp to UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University in the late 1960s, during the Vietnam War protests. The youngsters there were purposely scruffy, but even more seedy than their predecessors four decades ago.

I’m hitting the streets for the DNC
By Phil Van Hoy | Correspondent | September 2, 2012

For years, I’ve pushed the The Observer to run more opinion columns from a Republican perspective.

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Phil Van Hoy
Phil Van Hoy
Phil Van Hoy is a Charlotte native who has been active in various Republican positions and campaigns.