Category: NC State Government

Environmentalists: Just say NO, NO, No, No, and NO

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Environmentalists LOVE the word NO. They like to tell us NO, you can’t build that house or that office building or that church or that shopping center. They like to

Breaking News: The N&O has NO shame!

Posted on October 9, 2011October 9, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Okay. All evidence shows that the N&O newsroom worked hand-in-hand with the governor’s office to kill the uproar over Boss Bev’s ‘suspend the elections’ speech in Cary. At first

NCDOT board: More trouble than it’s worth

Posted on October 8, 2011October 8, 2011 by Brant Clifton

In this age of dwindling tax revenue and budgets drowning in red ink, I have a few questions for the new conservative majority in the legislature. Why are we still

State Senate GOP blasts Boss Bev on ‘pay to play’

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The state Senate GOP majority issued a blistering release today attacking our state’s buffoonish governor for antics that cost The Tar Heel State jobs: Today Continental Tire

Tillman: Leftists playing games with school $$$ numbers

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Brant Clifton

State senator Jerry Tillman (R-Randolph), the #2 Republican in the state senate and likely Moore County’s next representative in that body, is taking leftist political activists to task for their

Former U.S. AG addresses leftist whining about “assassination” of terrorists

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Michael Mukasey, a distinguished former federal judge and George W. Bush’s final attorney general, had a great piece in today’s Wall Street Journal tackling whining by Ron Paul,

Why are lefties so scared of Art Pope?

Posted on October 4, 2011October 4, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Moore County’s waaaaaay-too-bipartisan former legislator SpeakerrrrrRichardMorgan™ railed against him and had his allies blast him publicly in ads and letters to the editor. SpeakerrrrrRichardMorgan™ even went after him via the

Now you’re talking, Mr. Speaker!

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Brant Clifton

NC state House Speaker Thom Tillis (R) recently speculated publicly about selling off state assets — like a hospital and a railroad — to help state government get

The N&O newsroom goes into overdrive to rehab Boss Bev

Posted on October 2, 2011October 2, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The newsroom at The Raleigh News & Observer appears to have taken over for Boss Bev’s war-weary Damage Control Team, which has been put through pure hell by their boss

State pushing land deal that could benefit Bev’s son, Dem politicos

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The Associated Press is reporting that the state is offering an economic development package to an industry that includes land owned by a team that includes a Democrat