Category: Economy

Campaign 2011: An agenda for Pinehurst’s future (part 1)

Posted on September 28, 2011October 1, 2011 by Brant Clifton

“John is my golf buddy. ” “Nancy is a sweetheart and a GREAT bridge player.” These are examples of the rationale being offered up by various campaigns in the 2011

When all else fails, blame “the rich”

Posted on September 27, 2011September 27, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Big government liberalism is failing spectacularly under the watch of BarryO, and leftists are apoplectic. How can this be? Government can fix ANYTHING! When numbers come out showing

No profiles in courage for NCGOP in DC

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina’s Republican Members of Congress have proved — once again — that keeping Speaker John Boehner happy is more important than looking out for the folks struggling through

Attacking others’ success to distract from Barry-O’s failures

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Has anyone else noticed the hard left turn of the Democrats’ rhetoric recently? They’re panicking. Their big government, redistributionist policies are pushing the country into a bigger, deeper economic

More taxes for thee, but not for me

Posted on September 20, 2011September 20, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Superstar, super-rich investor Warren Buffett is all over the alleged Mainstream Media (MSM) for allowing his name to be attached to Barry-O’s latest scheme to jack up taxes in

Huh? What? A listening tour?

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The campaign silly season is upon us. Politicians are running all over the countryside kissing babies and telling us how bad the other guys are. Thanks to the Tea Party

Barry HOPEs he can get all of our big bills AND our spare CHANGE

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Record unemployment. Record home foreclosures. Record number of personal and business bankruptcies. People are hurting. Barry-O thinks it is a GREAT time to pile on some new taxes

The bridges are falling! The bridges are falling!

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Barry-O is flitting around the country spinning a yarn about how EXACTLY 153 bridges will fall if Congress doesn’t approve his “American Jobs Act” – which actually hits struggling

Barry-O and Little Joe invade Carolina …

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Brant Clifton

What’s next — plague, locusts? North Carolina has been hit with more of its fair share of misfortune lately. Not just a hurricane and an earthquake. This week

Cold hard truth re: social security

Posted on September 15, 2011September 15, 2011 by Brant Clifton

While most all of Barack Obama’s prospective Republican opponents are busy pandering to the media over social security, one columnist, Michael Walsh of The New York Post, is