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#NCSEN: CBS News / NYT/ YouGov poll shows dead heat

Posted on July 28, 2014July 28, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Recent polling from in-state sources like Civitas and Public Policy Polling have showed incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan slowly building a lead over Republican nominee Thom Tillis.  A new national survey

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#NCSEN: Cost-of-living and the minimum wage

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Kay Hagan and her lefty friends have been beating Republican Thom Tillis around the head and shoulders about what — we think — has been one of the smartest, most

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Drive-by columnist: You righties need to lighten up — Just like WE DO!

Posted on July 28, 2014July 28, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Another resident of the South McDowell Street low-testosterone zone has raised his head up to lecture the rest of us on ”civility”: […] Before you lick the stamp on your

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campaign 2014, Media, Moral Monday, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#NCSEN: Fact-checking the Ex-Im Bank, corporate welfare discussion

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney has waded into our marquee election.  I am typically a big fan of Carney.  (I even bought ONE of his books.)  But painting Thom Tillis

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Monkey Business Alert: “diversity mapping” and “geospatial discrimination”

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Sure, those terms sound like something from a George Orwell or Ayn Rand novel.  But unfortunately, they are very real. The Future of Freedom Foundation fills us in on the

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Congress, Media
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Dr. Creech, vultures are bipartisan.

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The media hysteria over the budget debate on Jones Street is reaching a crescendo.  Never mind that Democrats — when they were in charge — actually debated the budget until

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Congress, Media
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The drive-by media and ‘the do-rag rule’

Posted on July 26, 2014July 26, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The latest news about the murder of a UNC-Chapel Hill professor brings to mind the ‘do-rag’ rule  —  a term first coined by or friend Bob Lee Swagger.  What is

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Monkey Business Update: FOREIGN travel by Members of Congress

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We got a tidal wave of enthusiastic support of our post on taxpayer-funded travel by US senators. Many readers asked us to look into taxpayer-funded trips OVERSEAS.  You ask, we

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics
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#NCGA: WWThD (What Will Thom Do?)

Posted on July 25, 2014July 25, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The North Carolina Senate has voted to send one heck of a hot potato over to the NC House. The economic development package creates a new method for handing out

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Monkey Business Report: Taxpayer-funded travel for US senators & staff

Posted on July 24, 2014July 24, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Washington Examiner — the conservative daily that employees Renee Ellmers’s favorite “liberal reporter” — has put together a very interesting piece about how much we’re shelling out to cover

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