The Daily Haymaker

Back by popular demand: A Re-Post

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Brant Clifton

[Editor’s Note:] From December 2014, just in time for the 2022 elections: Are you frustrated with the current state of the NCGOP? Start organizing your like-minded friends to take over

District Attorney Mike Hardin: Taking Care of Business

Posted on December 27, 2021December 27, 2021 by Brant Clifton

We got quite a few profane, yet anonymous, emails about our story on the election of former prosecutor Maureen Krueger as the new president of Moore Republican Women. We

Monkey Business Report: NC’s 2020 voting machines DID have modems.

Posted on December 15, 2021 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been hearing all kinds of talk about election skullduggery. We heard about the Russians hacking into the system to help the Republicans. We heard about Democrats cheating to

Pinehurst: A hot mess at Village Hall

Posted on December 12, 2021December 12, 2021 by Brant Clifton

We’ve made it through two years and a month of the Strickland era in Pinehurst government. The reports coming out of the village’s halls of government evoke memories of

Meadows lawyers up against Pelosi & co.

Posted on December 12, 2021December 12, 2021 by Brant Clifton

He may have left Congress, but Mark Meadows has not lost the fighting instinct that served him and us so well on Capitol Hill: Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark

Solid conservative Nick Picerno has his eye on NC House District 78

Posted on December 7, 2021 by Brant Clifton

We heard a few days ago, officially, that incumbent state Rep. Allen McNeill was not running for reelection to district 78. The district has been solidly Republican and has

Et tu, Paul?

Posted on December 6, 2021December 6, 2021 by Brant Clifton

Is stalwart conservative judge April Wood being stabbed in the back by “ally” Chief Justice Paul Newby? That’s what we’re hearing from inside the beltline. Wood, who currently serves

Folwell, Wood back state-like ethics rules for local officials

Posted on December 6, 2021 by Brant Clifton

The state legislature has got a bill in its possession that would bring local government officials under very similar ethical standards to those state officials have to live by.

Three NCGOPers in US House vote FOR federal vaccine database

Posted on December 3, 2021December 3, 2021 by Brant Clifton

At least three of our Republicans in Washington have decided it’s OK for Big Brother to be Watching. Three leadership brown-nosers (Patrick McHenry, Richard Hudson, and Greg Murphy) voted

Still beating on — and lying about — Mark Robinson

Posted on November 30, 2021December 1, 2021 by Brant Clifton

Anybody out there seriously believe that the drive-by media would be all worked up about all this GAY STUFF if Robinson had a (D) next to his name? Apparently, it’s