Category: NC State Government

Hoke County Schools & Bev’s More At Four: A National Laughing-Stock

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Rush Limbaugh, Stephen Colbert, and the network news programs have all had a field day with Carolina Journal’s Nugget-gate exposé at West Hoke Elementary School:

New border lines separating The Carolinas could result in a real state of confusion

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Some folks who live along the state line may soon be hit with a nasty surprise. North Carolina and South Carolina officials have been

A breath of fresh air (and some cold hard facts) amid the fracking hysteria

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Blogger Steve Maley is quite an authority on the oil and gas business. He makes his living searching for viable sources of oil and gas. Maley

John Edwards: STILL a sleazeball

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been hit with a lot of sympathetic coverage of former US senator and presidential candidate John Edwards lately. Our local paper has been cooing over

NC Campaign 2012: Black Dems aiming for state’s top two posts in year BarryO seeks reelection

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The two announced candidates for the Democrat nomination for lieutenant governor are a black state senator from Fayetteville and a black woman who currently serves as

‘McCarthyism’ rears its ugly head in Racial Justice Act political drama

Posted on February 8, 2012February 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Leftists are utilizing tactics they have long despised — loudly and publicly — in an effort to intimidate people who believe that violent criminals deserve the harshest

Feds, state attempt to stick it to NC drivers ONE MORE TIME

Posted on February 8, 2012February 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Federal and state bureaucrats are attempting to add 15 to 20 cents PER MILE of cost to drivers on I-95 in North Carolina. Tar Heel state drivers are already

Bureaucrats, pimps, politicians, and drug dealers: birds of a feather with different means, same ends

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

On a daily basis, I am amazed at how hard government works to keep people dependent on the bureaucracy. Working hard and reaping rewards of your labor doesn’t matter.

Another Fayetteville politico aiming HIGH?

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Word is on the street that state senator Eric Mansfield (D-Fayetteville) is taking a good hard look at the state’s soon-to-be-vacant lieutenant governor post. If he makes the jump to

Incomes on rise in energy mining areas, falling in manufacturing regions

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

According to data published this week in The Wall Street Journal, regions of the U.S. where energy mining is on the rise are seeing an economic boom, while industrial and manufacturing