Category: Congress

THE Pope: It’s ALL The Haymaker’s fault!

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Brant Clifton

A reader forwarded to us an email conversation they had with NCGOP chairman Claude Pope. (Of course, we came up.) The reader asked THE Pope about reports on our site

#NCSEN: Lobbyists lining up, placing bets on Hagan, Tillis

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

Lots of folks are trying to compare this year’s US Senate race with Kentucky’s 2010 contest. But political old-timers like myself can see some similarities to North Carolina’s 1984 contest

Being Bi-partisan: offering Thom a helping hand

Posted on January 22, 2014January 22, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve already raised questions about Speaker Thom, his movie contributions, the beer distributor bucks, and his ties to a certain well-connected Massachusetts law firm. We found a few more areas

#NCSEN: Giving Kay a helping hand

Posted on January 21, 2014January 21, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Yep. You read that right. You can just imagine that –when you’re scurrying all over the nation scooping up special interest money — it can be a challenge to find

#NCSEN: Wrong on the money

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Carter Wrenn — Richard Morgan’s pre-weight loss doppelganger — has surfaced like Captain Ahab’s white whale to do a wee bit of the GOP establishment’s dirty work in a post

Omnibus? More like Omni-BUST!

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I went back in the Google time machine and found some comments from GOP leaders shortly after the Tea Party put them back in charge of the US House of

#NCSEN It’s Over: PPP & The Shih-Tzu anoint Senator Thom

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

John Frank says we might as well forget this primary thing. Thom Tillis is leaving everybody in the dust with his “solid lead.” If you are a supporter of

GOP, grassroots unrest bubbling over in SC, too

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We posted here about an NCGOP establishment vs. grassroots spat in Haywood County. There have been previous issues in Beaufort, Craven, Davidson and Gates counties. It appears the folks just

The UNC athletics “scandal”: Overlooking the role of K-12 public education

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

For some years, I’ve had one foot in the academic world and one in the business world. (I am an adjunct instructor at a number of area colleges here in

BOHICA: The amnesty sellout cometh

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

Tea Partiers and other grassroots limited government types have been disappointed time and again by the Republican leaders on Capitol Hill they elected and elevated in 2010 and 2012. Spending.