Category: NCGOP

Ed Martin Thells on Thom

Posted on May 18, 2025 by Brant Clifton

You may remember Ed Martin as Donald Trump‘s choice for US attorney for The District of Columbia. Senator Thom Tillis gained some national notoriety for single-handedly derailing Martin’s confirmation into

One of Timmy’s special judges tosses out suit against Team Berger. (Uncle Phil is pleased.)

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It’s *good* to own state government. We have these special animals in North Carolina politics. They’re called “special superior court judges”. From what I can tell, they’re meant to

WAIVERS: DEI, gone ? No, Brenden. It isn’t gone (and likely isn’t going anywhere)

Posted on May 14, 2025May 14, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The state House majority leader just got done telling us DEI is GONE, GONE, GONE from all state-funded stuff in North Carolina. Now, we’re hearing about these mystical, magical things

Ground Control to Major Thom …

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Country music’s John Rich got the ball rolling with songs mocking our senior US senator. Now, it seems that MAGA influencer – and meme and video genius — Brenden Dilley

Are elected folks as committed to smaller, cheaper government as we are?

Posted on May 12, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The evidence out there suggests a big, fat NO. In Raleigh, legislative Republicans are rolling out a North Carolina version of Elon Musk‘s DOGE effort to root out and eliminate

DEI “officially done in North Carolina”? (Better look again.)

Posted on May 10, 2025 by Brant Clifton

DEI is D-O-N-E, folks. That’s what state Rep. Brenden Jones tells us. Somebody better check in with the diminutive president of Sandhills Community College, Dr. Sandy Stewart, about that. He

The Thom song

Posted on May 9, 2025May 9, 2025 by Brant Clifton

(Not to be confused with Sisqo’s Thong Song.) We told you about country music’s John Rich offering to perform for a Tillis primary opponent’s rally. Rich has apparently been fooling

The long knives are out. (It MUST be close to NCGOP convention time.)

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Such *great* timing, too. The name of our senior US senator is on the lips of the national conservative and MAGA movements. And those lips appear to be spitting a

ONE MORE stab in the back from our man Thom

Posted on May 6, 2025May 6, 2025 by Brant Clifton

I’m waiting for the CDC to put its official stamp on “Battered Constituent Syndrome.” There appear to be a lot of victims of that condition here in The Old

In wake of financial scandals, NC’s former Second Lady starts an accounting firm.

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The ascent of Mark Robinson and Yolanda Hill through North Carolina’s GOP ranks ended almost as rapidly as it began. The descent was most prominently marked with talk of Internet