The Daily Haymaker

Rep. Hardister v. Rep. Moss in GOP’s 2024 Labor Commissioner tussle?

Posted on December 21, 2022 by Brant Clifton

That’s what appears to be in the offing. It would be like a political version of midget wrestling. Things have been moving fast on the Labor Commissioner front. Incumbent Josh

Visions of DC dancing in his surrender-monkey head

Posted on December 21, 2022December 21, 2022 by Brant Clifton

It’s apparently official. The NCGOP’s chairman, Michael Whatley is one of THREE candidates for vice-chairman of The Republican National Committee. *Incredible.* Establishment politics — both parties — is notorious for

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: A real Circle jerk

Posted on December 20, 2022 by Brant Clifton

We told you recently about all the traffic problems in Pinehurst that village leaders are setting aside to focus on *really important* crap like vacation rentals. We also told you

Whatley: ‘We ain’t a Republican state. Deal with it.’

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Those are the words delivered by NCGOP chairman Michael Whatley to a sparsely-attended state executive committee meeting in Charlotte over the weekend. The semi-annual meeting was so poorly-attended it could

From “Montezuma’s Revenge” to “Nagy’s Revenge”

Posted on December 19, 2022December 19, 2022 by Brant Clifton

If you’re still reading The Pilot, you’re in for some looooooooooong years. We recently disclosed that The Pilot’s managing editor and the school system’s chief propagandist are married and

A ‘national recall’ on WHOSE teeth ???

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Antifa. The drive-by media and their liberal puppet-masters only want to talk about Trump supporters, Oath Keepers, and Proud Boys. But Antifa is a special

Duke Power substation attacks in Florida tied to potheads.

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Sadly, it is not a joke. So many on the left around here are trying to tie the Moore County outage to church-going drag-queen-haters. Intrepid reporters in Florida and the

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: The Pilot and ‘deign’-ing

Posted on December 16, 2022December 16, 2022 by Brant Clifton

That’s tonight’s headline on our local Pulitzer-Prize-winning two-days-a-week drive-by paper’s web site. Deign? What exactly is Pinehurst planning to do to the library? I checked the dictionary: So, Pizzella, Strickland

2024 GOP primary for Labor Commissioner already underway?

Posted on December 16, 2022December 16, 2022 by Brant Clifton

That’s what it looks like. Jon Hardister (R), the NC House’s majority whip, is making a lot of noise about a possible run for NC Commissioner of Labor in 2024.

Valedictorians are back. (So are the leftist tears …)

Posted on December 15, 2022 by Brant Clifton

The lefties are having a hard time being out of power in the Moore County school system. So many of their sacred cows are being slaughtered. And the new conservative