Category: NC legislature

Racial Justice Act rearing its head again, thanks to lawyers for convicted cop killers

Posted on July 7, 2012July 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Tilmon Golphin — convicted for the 1997 murders of two North Carolina lawmen — is appealing his death sentence via The Racial Justice Act of 2009. (For the record, the

Red Light, Green Light: The Pilot labels Democrat’s “mistake” a GOP dirty trick

Posted on July 6, 2012July 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Democrat machine operatives who own — and control the editorial content of — our thrice-weekly Emmy Award-winning, Nobel Prize-nominated local newspaper are at it again: stretching the truth and

From the ‘It Needed to Be Said’ Department, Jones Street division …

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Well, the honorables on Jones Street hashed it out over global warming this week, and the arrogance and elitism of the granolas — still smarting from their banishment to

They came. They saw. They overrode.

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Low-level staffers in the governor’s office are likely scrambling today to ID the truck that ran over their boss lady — THREE TIMES — this week.

John Locke, AFP, and NCGOP: Devaluing conservatism in North Carolina

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Brant Clifton

There are an awful lot of people who make the mistake of equating being “Republican” with being “conservative.” Look at our alleged conservative majority in the North

OMG. (Is “she” STILL here???)

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Lame Duck Bev — who polls show is THE MOST unpopular governor in these here United States — is trying HARD to prove she’s still relevant. She thought she

It’s a GREAT DAY to make some women cry …

Posted on June 28, 2012June 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The NCGOP effort to play up the DOT Auto-Pen McScandal took a turn for the worst today. For their efforts, GOP senators earned media coverage featuring full color photos of

NC state govt spending at A RECORD HIGH

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Political campaigns do a nice job of keeping pesky things like facts out of election year debates. The North Carolina Democrat Party’s 2012 campaign effort — spearheaded by gubernatorial nominee

NC Campaign 2012: The Battle of Wilmington

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Well, the two empty suits topping the tickets for each of the state’s two main parties — Walter Dalton and Pat McCrory — faced off in Wilmington on

The man behind THOSE fliers @ NCGOP convention steps forward, firing from both barrels

Posted on June 22, 2012June 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Todd Bennett of Farmville says NCGOP leaders interrogating and intimidating people about fliers passed out at the state GOP convention need to come see him: