The Daily Haymaker

Does Congress’s budget deal mark the end of the Tea Party?

Posted on August 3, 2019August 3, 2019 by Brant Clifton

That’s what Rand Paul said on Wednesday: Sen. Rand Paul, who was first elected in 2010 as a one of the original tea party candidates, declared the movement

#hayesscandal: Kicking the can down the road

Posted on August 3, 2019August 3, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Defense lawyers seem to be having their way with this one. The US attorney is a former Mecklenburg County DA who happens to be BFFs with Thom Tillis. The

Moore County D.A.’s race: incumbent Krueger OUT, challenger Hardin now unopposed.

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Brant Clifton

It was looking to be a tough reelection bid for Maureen Krueger anyway. A lot of people are still angry at her for so publicly meddling in the last

Tillis teams with Dems to enact race, gender quotas for federal patents

Posted on July 30, 2019July 30, 2019 by Brant Clifton

His campaign is mouthing a bunch of nonsense about how much he love Trump and how conservative he is, but Thom Tillis’s own Senate website tells a different story:

The omitted details on the latest entry into the NC LtGov race

Posted on July 28, 2019July 28, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Campaign materials are identifying him as “Iraq War Veteran and current North Carolina National Guard soldier” Greg Gebhardt. But they left out some other important details: He’s registered with the

NC SPIN cut by UNC-TV (Grandpa Tom sees black helicopters, hidden hand of Harry Smith)

Posted on July 27, 2019July 27, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Tom Campbell needs to wake up and smell the coffee. He has been the face of a product that few people have wanted, and has been living on borrowed

Tillis leads effort to keep crony capitalist Ex-Im Bank alive & kicking

Posted on July 27, 2019July 27, 2019 by Brant Clifton

The Ex-Im Bank guarantees loans to foreigners so they can purportedly buy US-made goods. (Though, how much is actually MADE here anymore?) Conservatives cry foul over the continued existence

NC-09: Bishop gets a little help from some deep-pocketed friends

Posted on July 26, 2019July 27, 2019 by Brant Clifton

It’s only fair. Dan McCready and his Chinese solar panels have been coddled and babied for over a year by the drive-by media and their compatriots in the national

Drive-by slimeball bias-meisters tip their hand, show us ‘how it’s done’

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Brant Clifton

“False testimony in North Carolina gerrymandering trial? Judges exclude GOP expert witness claims.” That’s the McClatchy headline. Were Republicans caught lying under oath? Let’s read further, shall we? :

Medicaid expansion? THIS is gonna hurt.

Posted on July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Duke scholar, Dr. Christopher Conover, Ph.D., lays out a pretty damning case against Medicaid expansion in the January-February 2-17 issue of the North Carolina Medical Journal. Yet,