Category: NCGOP

Thoughts and Prayers Time …

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Brant Clifton

As we approach this Thanksgiving holiday, please keep former North Carolina governor Jim Holshouser (1973-1977) and his family in your thoughts and prayers. The governor went under the surgeon’s

Ok, N&O: Which one is it?

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Brant Clifton

N&O reporter John Frank may be in danger of losing his job. He breaks the news about Boss Bev’s “suspend the elections” fantasy, and now he is contradicting

Politico paints a bullseye on Boss Bev

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Politico, the DC-based political web site, says the 2012 race for governor is the SECOND most competitive in the nation: Two public polls found Republican

The Pilot parrots state Dem talking points …

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

It is ASTOUNDING how much the staff editorials in our thrice-weekly Pulitzer Prize-winning local paper mirror the rhetoric on MSNBC and the spin of the state

NC Teacher Job Loss Misinformation

Posted on October 29, 2011October 29, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The Raleigh-based Civitas Institute has released an interesting study that contradicts the spin from leftists and their media comrades about those mean ol’ Republicans and their state

Rep. LaRoque and the latest on the smell test

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The problems keep piling up for state Rep. Stephen LaRoque (R-Kinston) — a close political ally and friend of SpeakerrrrrRichardMorgan™. According to the left-wing group

Oh look, dear. A head on a stick …

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Brant Clifton

(Yes, that is a severed head on a pike at the Occupy Wall Street ‘event’ in NYC. More specifically, it is an effigy of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s

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