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Gov. Pat takes to state-owned media to bash his own party

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The ”I-told-you-so’s” from my conservative Charlotte amigos are reaching a crescendo.  They warned me — and anyone else who would listen prior to the election — that Pat McCrory would

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Phil Berger, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCGA: Looking to cut? WHY NOT UNC ???

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The state budget is on the mind of a lot of Raleigh-watchers and insiders.  How to get pay raises for teachers has been a major sticking point on reaching an

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campaign 2014, Education, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, Politics
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Quality over Quantity: the key to public schools success

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I just love it when liberals prove us right.  The Center for American Progress — A Soros-funded far-left think tank — recently released a study breaking down by jurisdiction each school

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Rob Christensen: Just one of the girls

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Baghdad Rob — Randy Voller’s Minister of Propaganda —  just will not let this ‘War on Women’ election year spin go.  Last week in his column, he insisted that Thom

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Monkey Business Report: NC’s e-cig tax

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We posted previously about the General Assembly’s vote to enact a tax on e-cigarettes.  E-cigs are a relatively new phenomenon.  They are devices that emit odorless vapor instead of that

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We’re not in Raleigh anymore: #NCSEN race sounding a lot like one for #NCGA

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The last six years in DC has offered a treasure trove of ammunition for conservatives seeking to ”take out the trash” in our nation’s capital.  Barry Obama has wrecked our

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Congress, Media
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#NCGA: If Gov. Pat wants a fight, Mr. Berger is glad to give him one.

Posted on July 11, 2014July 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The media, Democrats, and Bill Barber’s rabble have tried to pitch us a narrative about some unified Republican front in Raleigh.  Unfortunately, all we’ve been able to see lately  is

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Phil Berger, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Pat sounds like Bev.

Posted on July 11, 2014July 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

In 2012, Bev Perdue came to the conclusion that she had enough of a GOP majority on Jones Street and escaped Raleigh to the safe confines of Harvard’s Kennedy School

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campaign 2014, Education, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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NC-02: Is Aiken’s “incentivizing” MORE or LESS GOVT?

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Renee Ellmers’ Democrat challenger Clay Aiken has been throwing around the word “incentivize” a lot lately — on topics ranging from economics to education. “Incentivizing” can have a different meaning

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Congress, Media, Moore County
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Laying the foundation for a November blame game

Posted on July 10, 2014July 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

By all indications, Republicans should have a good November.  But we also thought that about November 2012.  Remember everyone saying there was no way in hell that Barry Obama would

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics, Tea Party
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