Category: NC State Government

A rational, common sense look at NCGA v. NCAE

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Democrats and the mainstream media (redundant? mutually exclusive?) all over the state are decrying the state legislature’s move to end the teachers’ groups ability to

Bev booed in Blue Heaven

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I spent Tuesday night, in my usual spot in The Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill, watching my beloved Tar Heels dismantle The Miami Hurricanes. As halftime approached,

Here COMES the judge !!!!

Posted on January 10, 2012January 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It looks like the state teacher’s union’s judge-shopping efforts have paid off. A Wake County Superior Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking legislation that ends mandatory

SUE: For those “special” times when you can’t get your way via the democratic process

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The state teachers union, in the aftermath of having their cash faucet turned off by the legislature, appears to be calling in

Pat McCrory’s Mitt Romney Impersonation

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

It looks like the scheme by North Carolina Democrats to split conservatives from Pat McCrory is well-underway. The North Carolina Democrat Party has launched a

NC Legislators end union shakedown of teachers; Democrats & media throw major fit

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

On the N&O’s front page, there was a full color photo of some large, angry Hillary Clinton lookalikes from the NC Association of Educators (NCAE) holding signs that said

EEOC: requiring an education MAY be discriminatory

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Here comes another example of a federal agency that has outlived its usefulness. The EEOC was founded with the intention of ending racial and

Recipe for 2012 GOP gubernatorial victory missing key ingredients

Posted on December 31, 2011December 31, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The three modern day successes for the NCGOP in governor’s races came in 1972, 1984, an 1988. What do those three years have in common? A Republican presidential candidate cruising

GOP: Get On the bandwagon — or else …

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Rush had the theory some time back that the DC Republican Ruling Class is putting out the following message to Republican activists and officials around the country: Get

A Charlotte conservative’s POV on Pat McCrory

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The Pat McCrory “campaign” encourages us to talk to the people of Charlotte — the people who know him best — about his record. So, I dug up