The Daily Haymaker

ReOpen NC gains a powerful new ally

Posted on April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Raleigh-based CaptiveAire CEO Bob Luddy is not mincing words in his open letter to Governor Roy Cooper: An urgent appeal to North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper:

Burr sold DC townhouse to lobbyist same month he co-sponsored lobbyist’s bill

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Brant Clifton

On his way out the door, Richard Burr is certainly prompting quite a bit of discussion on ethics and criminal law. His earlier (questionable) stock market trades

Forest: Effort to Reopen NC needs more info, cooperation from Cooper

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Lt. Governor Dan Forest is a fan of getting NC’s economy up and running again ASAP. But he says the leaders of that effort need a lot more

Team Cooper: Coronavirus is, um, RACIST

Posted on April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Just when you thought they couldn’t sink any lower, they DO: […] In North Carolina and around the country, African Americans are getting COVID-19 and dying from

Coronavirus saving Cooper?

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Brant Clifton

It’s amazing — no, make that disgusting — how many lefties are out there seeking political opportunities and advantage from the ongoing pandemic. We’ve tried our

US Rep. Greg Murphy’s prescription for coping with, coming back from coronavirus

Posted on April 11, 2020April 11, 2020 by Brant Clifton

One of North Carolina’s newest Members of Congress has offered up his two cents on the current crisis and how to find our way out: Periods of

Lawsuit demands North Carolina clean up its voter registration lists

Posted on April 11, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Judicial Watch, which rose to fame as a thorn in Bill and Hillary Clinton’s sides, has gone to court to force Roy Cooper and Josh Stein to do

GOPe: Throwing Richard Burr under the bus?

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Brant Clifton

It’s one thing to see conservatives and RINOs squabble, but it definitely IS a head scratcher when a RINO-on-RINO fracas breaks out. For instance, take

Meadows already making waves in his new job

Posted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Mark Meadows has apparently exported the hard-nosed style that made him famous (or infamous) on Capitol Hill down the street to his new digs at 1600 Penn:

ANOTHER Richard Burr stock market scandal?

Posted on April 7, 2020April 7, 2020 by Brant Clifton

We all know about the stock sales just before the coronavirus lockdown crashed the economy. This time, it apparently involves a Dutch fertilizer company: The chairman