Category: Politics

Walter Dalton loans ‘Gunga Din’ to Elaine Marshall

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

In marking their recent anniversary, the folks at The Ol’ Reliable kept talking about how they long ago shirked their role as chief shill and water-carrier for the NC

Source: Justice Reinvestment Act likely played big part in Moore County murder case

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The discovery of an Aberdeen woman’s body near the county landfill, and her live-in boyfriend’s subsequent murder arrest, this week have a lot of people in the area

Greensboro paper “tests” Pat McCrory

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

Memo to Team McCrory’s media relations crew: From now on, no one is allowed to leave “the Boss”‘ unsupervised when mouth-breathing MSM types are in sight.

Drip — Drip — Drip: Details slowly leaking out on Cowell, Bowles and Facebook

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

John Frank and The N&O have decided to finally start sniffing around about Janet Cowell’s Facebook gambit with state employee retirement funds: State Treasurer Janet

A travesty of justice in Moore County with a tragic ending

Posted on August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The body of a thirty-something Moore County woman was found Wednesday near the county landfill in Aberdeen. Check out one of the news accounts: A

The Pilot’s county government coverage goes from BAD to WORSE

Posted on August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I thought it would be hard for The Pilot to put someone worse than Florence Gilkeson on the county government beat. But there is a new

Timmy and his fertile imagination keep stirring up trouble

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

A local politico — and faithful reader of this site — forwarded to me an email Moore County commissioner Tim Lea sent to him and several other

NC Secretary of State debate: Goodwin lays the smack down, Marshall dodges and lies about her record

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The two candidates on the November ballot for North Carolina Secretary of State faced off in a spirited debate in Raleigh Thursday evening. Incumbent Secretary of

Missouri and Medicare. The STUPID PARTY rides again

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Many years ago, columnist George will coined the phrase “The Stupid Party” to describe the GOP establishment and its stupefying habit of taking a situation — tailor made for the

Emails from Speaker Tillis, other lawmakers raise suspicions of lobbyist shakedowns