The Daily Haymaker

Call a lefty. Transcribe. Disseminate. Repeat. (Call a lefty. Transcribe …. )

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Brant Clifton

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State

#NCSEN: But – But – But BURR DID IT TOO!

Posted on October 19, 2014October 19, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The GOP establishment is trying hard to sell Thom Tillis as a Tea Party-compatible conservative. But our senior US senator — Sir Richard of Forsythe — is throwing a monkey

#ncsen: A “rebellion against the ultra-conservatives”? (SERIOUSLY?)

Posted on October 17, 2014October 17, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Yep. That’s the verdict handed down by Washington Post columnist and drive-by media pundit E.J. Dionne regarding our US Senate race this year: The clergy gathered in the second-floor conference room

”Just — stop it. STOP IT.”

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve heard a lot of grumbling about NCGOP HQ’s performance this campaign season. They’ve been AWOL while the libs go full-bore slanderous on the GOP majority in the General Assembly.

Open Up and Say ‘Aah.’ Here are the new rules governing gay “marriage” in NC

Posted on October 15, 2014October 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Richard Burr’s favorite judge legalized gay “marriage” in North Carolina around 5:30 PM on Friday. By Tuesday, the Administrative Office of the Courts — the state agency overseeing all those

NC-02: Republican Barbie follows Senator Sock Puppet’s lead

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Kay Hagan and her liberal Democrat pals have been working hard to turn this year’s election campaigns into one big Womyn’s Studies seminar. Republican congresswoman Renee Ellmers apparently thinks THAT

#ncga: So, how DID that drone stuff magically appear in the state budget bill?

Posted on October 15, 2014October 15, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Winston-Salem Journal has been all over this. As its reporters continue to dig, the details are getting fuzzier for some of the powers-that-be on Jones Street: […] Barry

#ncga: Reps. Pittman, Speciale urge NO vote in Nov. on state constitution amendment

Posted on October 15, 2014October 15, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Two of the more reliable conservative legislators in the state House are urging voters in their districts — and those outside — to vote down the proposed amendment to the

#ncsen: The eccch – factor?

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Brant Clifton

RobRielleWho is convinced that federal judge Max Cogburn is going to dramatically affect this thing: One of the biggest motivating factors in politics is anger. It was anger about President

#ncsen: taking a break from debating attendance to blur the lines on GREEN stuff

Posted on October 14, 2014October 14, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The candidates from the two major parties detoured from their usual routines to focus on an energy forum in Charlotte this week. Here’s how some of it went: Republican U.S.