Category: NC legislature

How sausage gets made at The N&O

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Things have been a wee bit tough over in the sparsely-populated N&O newsroom. McClatchy paid waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much for this rag to the people who now own our local paper.

A Berger-spawned RINO roars, thumbs his nose at the base. (Uncle Phil is pleased.)

Posted on March 10, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Recent alums of Phil Berger’s legislative staff are now calling the shots in the state auditor’s office. We’ve all witnessed the havoc Berger’s Jones Street team has played with conservative

The SCC Files: College defying Trump on DEI

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The shot-callers at Sandhils Community College have already made it pretty clear about the lack of respect they have for the people whose money keeps the doors open over there.

Scraggly Thom Tillis giving us a foreign- AND domestic-brand screwing

Posted on February 17, 2025February 17, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Western North Carolina still has a mess on its hands. Scraggly Thom showed up once for a photo op with the US secretary of transportation, and then did THIS: THIS

Lefty churches panic over illegal alien roundups

Posted on February 15, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Some of the most radical leftist activist groups in the nation – currently masquerading as churches — are beside themselves over Trump administration plans to round up illegals: Three North

Trump tired of Thom Tillis TOO?

Posted on February 15, 2025February 15, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Welcome to the party, Mr. President. If you recall, there was a lot of drama around the confirmation of Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense. Word came out that our

Rockingham sheriff has senator Berger in his sights

Posted on February 14, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Folks, we may have the chance to rid ourselves of TWO scoundrels in one primary. US senator Thom Tillis has at least one primary opponent. Now, it’s clear that

Berger backs BIGGER unemployment checks

Posted on February 13, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The de facto leader of the NCGOP is defying his party’s national fervor for cutting spending and waste. State senator Phil Berger, his chamber’s president pro tem, has made it

While MAGA cuts in DC, Raleigh is fattening up

Posted on February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Since 2017, we’ve been hearing talk from the General Assembly about revenue surpluses. Surpluses in revenue occur when they take too much money from us in April of each year.

N&O sobs over illegal aliens

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Brant Clifton

There’s a lot of socialist crying going on. Much of it can be witnessed in the pages of McClatchy properties here in North Carolina, like this one: Andrea would