The Daily Haymaker

For Everybody else …

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Brant Clifton

What’s left — beyond local races — are the legislative, congressional, judicial, and amendment decisions. Fasten your seatbelts as we hit you with our two cents: NC Supreme Court. A

For Moore County voters …

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Here are our thoughts on the races that pretty much just affect the local area. (You other folks? We’ll get to you. Just wait.) NC Senate 25: Tom McInnis (R)

#ncga: Lucky to hold on.

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Brant Clifton

I had the opportunity to connect this past weekend with some political players who have been very influential in recent years regarding cash and strategy for North Carolina General Assembly

Rethinking the hunting & fishing amendment

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Brant Clifton

We made some cursory judgements on the proposed constitutional amendments earlier. Our friends at The Beaufort Observer have come along with a piece that has us rethinking our initial YES

#ncga: Bobby Hanig, “your opioid attic friend in spot.”

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Maybe it’s some kind of local Outer Banks slang. (To the rest of us, it sounds like nonsense.) But THAT is how NC House candidate Bobby Hanig described himself in

#ncga: In HD-6, Hanig (R) and Judge (D) a LOT alike.

Posted on October 14, 2018 by Brant Clifton

The two candidates for this open Outer Banks House seat may be in different parties, but they appear to be singing from the same sheet music: There are some notable

A dingbat apologizes for history.

Posted on October 13, 2018October 13, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Leftists are great at apologizing for — and demanding apologies for — stuff that neither we nor they had anything to do with. Here comes one more giving it the

#ncpol: The Amendments

Posted on October 13, 2018October 13, 2018 by Brant Clifton

There’s been quite a hullaballoo about the six proposed constitutional amendments on the November ballot. Hysterical ads attacking the amendments are popping up all over TV and radio like weeds.

#ncga: Both sides claiming lead for Tarte’s Meck senate seat

Posted on October 13, 2018 by Brant Clifton

You know what polls are like. Everyone’s got one: […Senator Jeff]Tarte’s campaign this week is touting the results of a recent poll that shows him with a 46-43 percent lead.

Anita Earls & “Racial Justice”

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Brant Clifton

The General Assembly passed an atrocity called The Racial Justice Act in 2009. It allowed for a number of inmate death sentences to be thrown out because a defendant “of