Category: Politics

Silent Sam = um, HITLER ?????????

Posted on February 13, 2019February 13, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Yes, that is another fine piece of logic emerging from the home county of the flagship campus of our state university system: An Orange County judge will no longer

Keepin’ it Classy: NCGOP using Walter Jones funeral to harvest email addresses for fundraising

Posted on February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Yep. Grandpa Hip-Replacement and his crew on Hillsborough Street just keep the hits coming. Look at what showed up in email inboxes this week: For those of you who

NCGOP’s Short Memory Caucus

Posted on February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Mark Martin, the Republican chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, recently announced he was bailing out of that particular sinking ship to take a lucrative opportunity at

Woodhouse: It was a mistake to spend even ONE DIME on Justice Robert Edmunds in 2016.

Posted on February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 by Brant Clifton

So says, until recently, Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jackson : “Dallas stated that the party had spent $350K on Justice Edmunds race and his only regret was spending anything

Womack is BACK.

Posted on February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Robin “Hip Replacement” Hayes WILL INDEED have a competent, credible challenger in the 2019 race for NCGOP state chairman. Sources tell us Lee County GOP chairman Jim Womack will

NCGOP: One flaming-hot MESS

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Brant Clifton

The NCGOP hierarchy had meetings this weekend. Here’s SOME of what we learned: Party chairman Robin Hayes pretty much told the party’s Personnel Committee to pound sand. Hayes informed

#ncpol: NCGOP abandoned Barbara Jackson BEFORE EARLY VOTING EVEN STARTED?

Posted on February 10, 2019February 10, 2019 by Brant Clifton

That’s the shocking allegation we’ve picked up from at least three NCGOP heavy-hitters who attended state party meetings this weekend. All three confirmed for me that they spoke with

#ncpol: Walter Jones, RIP.

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I’ve been on a roller coaster ride over the years with Walter Jones. In the early 90s, while in DC, a fellow North Carolinian started telling me about this rebellious

#ncga: Tim Moore, innocent victim.

Posted on February 10, 2019February 10, 2019 by Brant Clifton

In the Speaker Joe Hackney era, you use campaign funds to buy yourself some new suits and you get bounced out of the House. Do it in the Tim

ICE ruins Taco Tuesday in Lee County. Amnesty crowd throws a fit. (Film at 11.)

Posted on February 9, 2019 by Brant Clifton

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement service (ICE) swept into our fine state this week to actually enforce federal law on immigration and employment. Something called Alerta Migratoria