The Daily Haymaker

Does Dale Folwell owe you money?

Posted on January 12, 2020 by Brant Clifton

(Or, more likely, someone else?) The treasurer’s office maintains a “found money” database of funds that are trying to be reunited with their actual owners. Of course, you

‘Interference’ v. ‘Oversight’: The superintendent-school board dynamic

Posted on January 12, 2020 by Brant Clifton

The N&O has a story about the Johnston County schools superintendent resigning over “interference” from the school board. *Though, if you read deeper into the article, it looks

And NOW for the congressional districts

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

NC Free Enterprise Foundation’s partisan index study also took a look at the state’s congressional districts for 2020. For all the whining lefties did about “gerrymandering,” they sure

Jones Street. The partisan index. And 2020.

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Brant Clifton

The North Carolina Free Enterprise Foundation, a GOP-leaning establishment pro-business group, regularly analyzes our General Assembly districts and computes things called partisan indexes. These are sort of like the

#ncga: 2019 legislator ratings. (Yay!)

Posted on January 4, 2020January 4, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Art Pope, Inc. has released its 2019 conservatism ratings of our state legislators. Seventeen votes were hand-picked for the House study. (There were 15 in the Senate.) Of course,

Showing ID at the polls STILL “racist”

Posted on January 4, 2020January 4, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Apparently, the OK sign is racist. (But the Democrat governor of Virginia wearing blackface is NOT.) In the 1950s and 60s, liberals got all bent out of shape

The coming Republican crack-up?

Posted on January 1, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Three (R)s became (U)s out in Transylvania County, thereby costing the GOP a majority on the county’s board of commissioners: Transylvania County Commissioners David Guice, Mike Hawkins and

Crocodile tears over judges

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Brant Clifton

It’s interesting to see and hear all of these Republican bigwigs bemoan “legislating from the bench”: Thom Tillis and Richard Burr have voted for MANY of these