Category: NC State Government

Mentally incompetent? Here’s your ballot.

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Life in this state never ceases to amaze me. Our state government is absolutely amazing. Gaston Pridgen — Robeson County’s first elected GOP legislator EVER — is doing yeoman’s work

North Carolina’s ‘baby-mama drama’ : Will John Edwards — um — GET OFF?

Posted on May 29, 2012May 30, 2012 by Brant Clifton

As a former journalist who has covered more than my fair share of trials — my experience has found that, the longer a jury deliberates, the better the chances are

Meet Dan Forest

Posted on May 26, 2012May 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Throughout our state’s history, lieutenant governors have put their own personal touch on a job with a limited scope of powers. Dan Forest, one of the two GOP candidates for

Civitas: What Belt Tightening?

Posted on May 26, 2012May 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It’s election time. The honorables on the right side of the aisle on Jones Street are running around telling us how conservative and careful they’ve been with the people’s money.

Meet John Tedesco

Posted on May 25, 2012May 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The candidates for governor and president are citing education as one of this election year’s major issues. On July 17, Republican voters in North Carolina have an opportunity to

LITTLE LOVE for Bev as she heads out the door

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Democrat pollster Public Policy Polling has found that Lame Duck Bev is THE MOST UNPOPULAR governor in these here United States. The organization’s latest poll found that her disapproval

Did the GOP learn ANYTHING from 2008? 2010?

Posted on May 23, 2012May 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

“Give me something to believe in …” — Poison We’re already getting a preview of November. The Democrats are already talking about “killing” Mitt Romney and “eviscerating” Pat McCrory.

A Charlotte Observer op-ed, a bunch of attorneys, and gay marriage. (Grab a seat. Get comfy. Pass the popcorn.)

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

An op-ed in The Charlotte Observer this past weekend has quite a few tongues wagging within Charlotte’s legal and political communities. David Jones, a Charlotte attorney and marriage amendment

Loyalty Oaths for the NCGOP?

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

If you thought the Democrat convention in Greensboro was fun, it’s looking like the June NCGOP convention might be trying to compete with its opposite number. UNITY

What? Vote fraud in good ol’ NC?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The General Assembly TRIED to get voter ID laws passed this session, over the loud vehement protests of Lame Duck Bev and her leftist cronies. We were told that