Category: Congress

Senator Burr: Begging for a Primary

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Washington HAS changed Richard Burr. At one time, he was a Winston-Salem businessman fed up with the nonsense in DC. Now, as pointed out

A Peek Inside George Holding, Inc. : Mostly smoke and mirrors

Posted on March 12, 2012March 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

George Holding’s background is a campaign consultant’s dream come true. He’s the scion of the First Citizen’s Bank empire, a former aide to U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, and a former

Renee Ellmers: live and in living color

Posted on March 11, 2012March 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

One of the first people I bumped into at Saturday’s Moore GOP event was our new Member of Congress, Renee Ellmers of Dunn. Ellmers won a close race

Renee Ellmers getting back to her Tea Party roots

Posted on March 9, 2012March 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers has re-discovered her Tea Party roots just in time for the 2nd congressional district’s GOP primary. Many political observers say the work

How Rush SHOULD have done it

Posted on March 5, 2012March 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The MSM is abuzz over El Rushbo’s apology to the Georgetown law student who wants us all to pay for her birth control pills. Some video (h/t

STST: SAVE THE SEX TAPE !!!!

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

John Edwards — AKA “The Breck Girl” and “The Pride of Robbins, NC” — has asked the judge in his corruption trial to NOT destroy a sex tape purportedly

GOP sellout on ObamaCare?

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Tea Party worked hard to give Republicans a majority in the U.S. House and a larger caucus in the U.S. Senate in 2010. How did DC

Ellmers slams state’s I-95 toll proposal

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Can I get an Amen? My congresswoman and I are singing from the same sheet of music on this issue of tolls on I-95. I dealt with these

Ellmers sets her sights on ObamaCare

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers — an RN married to an MD — has got a true insiders perspective on American healthcare and government bureaucracy’s effect on

Study: No connection between fracking and groundwater pollution

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina is looking at a potentially enormous economic boom with fracking. North Dakota is already booming. The energy industry believes that The Tar Heel State