Category: Moore County

EVEN MORE STUFF Timmy and John Lentz won’t tell you …

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

If you count on The Pilot as your main source of news in Moore County, I truly feel sorry for you. For the most part, the newsroom’s modus operandi has

The Pilot’s county govt coverage: All Timmy, All the Time

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

By reading the work of staff writer John Lentz in our Bavarian Goat Farmer Association Award-winning thrice weekly local newspaper, you might think that Tim Lea is the only

Pinehurst: Queen Nancy expanding her domain, some homeowners catching a break

Posted on September 23, 2012September 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Grab a chair and some popcorn, boys and girls, the Pinehurst village council is getting together again this week. Click HERE and HERE for details. We were

District Court race features a super PAC, bare-knuckled rhetoric and verbal combat

Posted on September 23, 2012September 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Judicial races in North Carolina tend to be quiet, gentlemanly affairs that occur below the radar. Not this year. Not in our neck of the woods. Randolph County

“MANY SEE” The Pilot as little more than a mouthpiece for Democrat & leftist interests

Posted on September 21, 2012September 21, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It always irks me to see allegedly unbiased mainstream media types employ the terms “some say” or “many say” “or “some see” or “many see” in their reporting. “Many see

Did Boehner lower the boom on Ellmers?

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Washington is buzzing about a bit of theater on the US House floor recently, involving a group of Members that included The Second District’s Renee

Moore County Tea Partiers get in Robin Hayes’s face

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Dee Park, president of Moore Tea Citizens, tried to pull off a stunt on Sept. 10 akin to a permanent peace agreement between cats and dogs. She brought in North

GOP-controlled US House AGAIN kicks the debt can down the road

Posted on September 16, 2012September 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The GOP-led US House, this week, passed ANOTHER short term funding measure for the federal government: Several freshmen Republicans in the House of Representatives who came

Tim Lea’s 2012 rhetoric doesn’t match up with his record

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Facts can be an inconvenient thing for politicians. Most like to say whatever will please the crowd right in front of them AT THAT MOMENT. The introduction of

Guzzling Timmy’s kool-aid in The Pilot’s newsroom

Posted on September 8, 2012September 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Very few people outside of The Pilot’s newsroom take county commissioner Tim Lea seriously. That became crystal clear in the 2008 GOP primaries, when Lea barely eked