Category: NC legislature

The Problem with Paul Stam

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Paul “Skip” Stam is the affable leader of the Republican majority in the NC House. He was a compromise candidate for caucus leader elected in the wake of the

What Amendment One ACTUALLY says

Posted on March 19, 2012March 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The gay rights movement, the professional LEFT, and their allies in the mainstream media (like our local Nobel Prize-winning newspaper) have moved into Moore County to continue —

Aahhh! Don’t you just love that leftist big-tent open-minded “tolerance” stuff?

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

We on the right are frequently criticized by The Left and its comrades in the allegedly mainstream media for pushing “moderates” out of the GOP. The latest example

An opportunity for Pat McCrory with state employees

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

In 1995 — just as Jim Hunt was launching his unprecedented reelection campaign for a FOURTH term as NC governor — I broke a story about top Hunt

Surprise! Bev actually DOES give a ‘frack’

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Remember that speech where our esteemed governess — ahem — “joked” about suspending congressional elections so the honorables could do “the right thing” without having to worry about political repercussions?

NC Senate GOP candidate Marcum publicly endorsed a Democrat in 2010

Posted on March 15, 2012March 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Pinehurst’s John Marcum is one of three GOP candidates seeking the district 29 NC Senate seat this year. Marcum is working hard to convince

Marcum vs. Moore Republican Women: Is The Fix IN on NC Senate race?

Posted on March 15, 2012March 18, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Pinehurst’s John Marcum is taking the Moore County Republican establishment to task. Marcum, a GOP candidate in the May primary for the NC Senate district 29

John Marcum now a Fiorillo Fan

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I ran into John Marcum, two-time Pinehurst mayoral candidate and 2012 GOP candidate for NC Senate, at Saturday’s Moore County GOP candidate meet-and-greet in Southern

The (REAL?) story on the NCGA gas tax relief #FAIL: ‘The Emperor Has No Clothes’

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We’ve vented our frustrations repeatedly on this site about North Carolina’s obscenely high gas tax. With gas prices skyrocketing, the economy tanking, and the unemployment rate

Campaign 2012: Richard Morgan, those photo shoots, “the picture girl” and those not-so-subtle threats

Posted on March 9, 2012March 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

“He’s a mental case. He does things no sane person would do.” — Former State Rep. Frank Mitchell (R-Iredell) , in 2006, on fellow Republican legislator Richard Morgan