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While DC balks at cutting spending, the numbers just keep getting worse

Posted on July 19, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Yes, I know we have a GOP majority in DC.  But it is exasperating to keep having to call JD Vance in to break ties on votes to cut ANY

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Congress, Economy, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Where are the federal judges, prosecutors?

Posted on July 16, 2025 by Brant Clifton

One of the many spoils that go to the victors in presidential races is the privilege of nominating and appointing federal judges and prosecutors. There are three federal judicial districts

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Ted Budd, Thom Tillis

Thommy Boy’s nausea-inducing “Tha-Tha” Thour

Posted on July 15, 2025July 15, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Boy, those bridges are burning. Thom Tillis — after all those years of thumbing his nose at us and generally behaving like an anus —  is doing his damnedest to

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campaign 2026, Congress, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, NCSEN26, NCSEN26, Politics, Thom Tillis, Thom Tillis
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As The Weed Burns: another NC politics-tied drama lawyers up

Posted on July 12, 2025July 12, 2025 by Brant Clifton

There was speaker-turned-congressman Timmy Moore and all that turmoil over Biscuitville and a divorce. There’s an on-going courtroom drama involving the Senate president pro tem’s son and several of his

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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TWO North Carolinians plead guilty to aiding attempted Trump assassination

Posted on July 12, 2025July 12, 2025 by Brant Clifton

You might remember the guy authorities caught hiding in the wooded areas around the Trump golf course down in Palm Beach.  He was reportedly equipped and ready to go with

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Donald Trump, Law & Order, Media, Politics

Speaker Hall: Let DC pick our next US senator FOR US

Posted on July 3, 2025July 3, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Here are those words of wisdom from the boy speaker himself: That’s *interesting* advice coming from a guy who made it to the NC House via a “messy” primary against

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campaign 2026, Congress, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, NCSEN26, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Thommy Boy’s Themper Thantrum and the *Medicaid Scam*

Posted on July 2, 2025July 2, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Our senior US senator is all over the national news boo-hooing about the sick state of politics, how he’s tired of it all, and how he wants to spend more

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campaign 2026, Congress, Economy, Media, NCGOP, NCSEN26, ObamaCare, Politics, Thom Tillis, Thom Tillis
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Tillis (apparently) not running for reelection

Posted on June 29, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Donald Trump got mad at our senior senator for voting against his Big Beautiful Bill.  Trump posted on Truth Social that he would be meeting with potential primary challengers for

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campaign 2026, Congress, Media, NCGOP, NCSEN26, Politics, Thom Tillis
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The Sandhills Files: incompetence, cronyism, disrespect for the law (and a tax lien ???)

Posted on June 29, 2025July 14, 2025 by Brant Clifton

*** UPDATED.*** Yes, those are the three (four?) winners in recent developments over on the Airport Road campus.  The college just got hit by an embarrassing report from the state

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Media, Moore County, NC legislature, NC State Government, Pinehurst, Politics, The Sandhills Files

House Majority Leader: Taking Care of HIS business?

Posted on June 28, 2025June 28, 2025 by Brant Clifton

We gave former state Rep. Jamie Boles — a funeral home operator by trade — grief for introducing several pieces of legislation specifically benefiting people who own and operate funeral

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Jamie Boles, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics

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