Category: Law & Order

The Castle Doctrine kicks in: common sense finally prevails in Raleigh

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Now that the trial lawyers have lost their stranglehold on Jones Street, crime victims and other law-abiding citizens of North Carolina are getting some

Surprise! State BOE opens probe of 2008 Dem complaint against McCrory

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Brant Clifton

News hit this week about campaign operatives for Boss Bev 2012 being indicted on campaign finance law violations. At the end of the week, we

Indictment of Boss Bev cronies is like deja vu all over again …

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Brant Clifton

If I talked to you about a governor with cronies laundering money to sidestep campaign finance laws, you’d think I was talking about Mike Easley. We went through a

Public defenders stick up for ‘Racial Justice’ …

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Just days after North Carolina’s prosecutors formally seek an end to the travesty called ‘The Racial Justice Act’, the state’s public defenders are speaking

A surprisingly thoughtful piece by an N&O reporter …

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The debate over abortion frequently gets clouded by PR spin and code-words like “choice,” as well as sign-wielding activists screaming at each other. Earlier this year,

NC prosecutors seek an end to ‘Racial Justice Act’

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina’s elected prosecutors are seeking the legislature’s assistance in overturning one of the worst travesties to ever pass through Jones Street: The Legislature should act

Laroque defamation suit gone, his firm ponies up $17K in fines

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The Raleigh-based leftist group NC Policywatch is staying on top of the ordeal swirling around state Rep. Stephen Laroque (R-Kinston and a close political ally of

Creative jurisprudence 101

Posted on October 26, 2011October 26, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The abortion lobby, worried about the effect of a new NC state law on their government cash cow, shopped around and found a federal judge to

Rep. LaRoque and the latest on the smell test

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The problems keep piling up for state Rep. Stephen LaRoque (R-Kinston) — a close political ally and friend of SpeakerrrrrRichardMorgan™. According to the left-wing group

Oh look, dear. A head on a stick …

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Brant Clifton

(Yes, that is a severed head on a pike at the Occupy Wall Street ‘event’ in NYC. More specifically, it is an effigy of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s