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Sound the alarm: The “poetry community” is rankled. That’s right. Rankled.

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The testosterone-deprived newsroom at McClatchy Central in Raleigh is up in arms.  Gov. Pat picked a new poet laureate and did not bother to consult with them or any of

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, Politics
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#NCSEN: The state of the write-ins

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Brant Clifton

If you want to have your votes in the November elections tallied as a write in candidate for a statewide office, you need to have 500 signatures from duly registered

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Gov. Pat takes a page from Thad Cochran’s political playbook

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Brant Clifton

In Mississippi, when incumbent US senator Thad Cochran appeared to be going down in flames to Tea Party candidate Chris McDaniel, GOP establishment types sold their souls and threw in

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campaign 2014, Education, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Phil Berger, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Gov. Pat: ‘Door Open’ to ObamaCare, expanding Medicaid

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Medicaid is trying to break North Carolina’s economy.  It’s an out-of-control mess.  In 2013, as ObamaCare was being implemented, states were being encouraged to expand their Medicaid programs as a way

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A REAL GOOD reason to show up at the polls in November

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve heard from a lot of people saying they might just not vote in November — thanks to some sorry choices on the ballot for the US Senate, Congress, and

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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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