Category: Moore County

NC Campaign 2012: Don’t cry for the edu-crats

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

During the debate over the 2011 state budget, we heard a lot of screaming, crying, moaning and complaining from Democrats and their NCAE allies about alleged draconian budget cuts. The

Moore County: Unaffiliated voter registrations pulling even with Democrats

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Carolina Transparency’s web site does a great job of tracking voter registration trends in North Carolina. You can use the site to track trends by county based on

Tim Lea & the gays: #HATING on fast food

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I don’t know what it is about fast food. The gays are in the midst of an attack on Chick-fil-A. Moore County commissioner Tim Lea is going all-out against Bojangles’

Moore County-Robbins water deal looking more and more like a long-shot

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

My #1 mole in the Moore county bureaucracy tipped me off that commissioners Craig Kennedy and Nick Picerno recently connected with state Senator Jerry Tillman in Raleigh for a fact-finding

The Pilot ignores facts, accepts leftist spin on poverty

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Our thrice weekly local newspaper here in Moore County — which some say was first brought down the mountain on stone tablets by Moses — is no stranger

Hi-HO HI-HO It’s off to court we go (AGAIN!)

Posted on July 27, 2012July 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

In the wake of the 2011 Pinehurst village council elections, we were promised an end to business as usual at village hall. For years, standard operating procedure at village hall

retired teacher: no vote for felons, making people show ID at polls = GOP tiptoeing toward fascism

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

If you’ve ever wondered why your kids come home from school spouting leftist nonsense that runs afoul of your family’s values and teachings, a letter from a

The Pilot’s op-ed page keeps up the scare tactics

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Our thrice weekly local paper — whose first edition was reportedly brought down the mountain on stone tablets by Moses — does a nice job of scaring its readers

Four hours to go: Get OUT AND VOTE !!!!

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It’s too bad that I have to step in and fill the void left by our lazy local newspaper and equally somnambulant county GOP organization. Our

Study sheds more light on Ellmers’s performance in Congress

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Govtrack.us is a non-partisan web site devoted to the study of Congress and its legislative process. It also has on-going scatter diagram studies tracking Members based on the