The Daily Haymaker

BIGGER not always better

Posted on February 1, 2018February 1, 2018 by Brant Clifton

We’re really getting soft-pedaled and spun about the UNC Health Care / Carolinas Medical merger. I, for one (and as a former patient with both), don’t see much good for

#NC-03: The LONG arm of the Law?

Posted on January 31, 2018January 31, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Oh, The Third Congressional District’s GOP primary is living up to its reputation for soap-opera and drama. DC lobbyist (and Craven County commissioner) Scott Dacey is already in as a

EVERYBODY loves Donald

Posted on January 31, 2018January 31, 2018 by Brant Clifton

The drivebys want to tell you President Trump is despised, hated, loathed in all corners. Yet, you’re getting big business types — well-known suckups to Dems — praising our CINC.

Earmarks, the Helms way.

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Somebody recently shared this letter-to-the-editor in The Wall Street Journal by Wayne Boyles, a former coworker during my Capitol Hill days: Rep. Mark Walker is correct (“GOP Maps a Road

Popping the “Blue Monday” bubble

Posted on January 29, 2018January 29, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Well, the state Democrat Party has rolled out more challengers for incumbent Jones Street Republicans. One that threw me for a loop was Lowell Simon of Moore County challenging

Some HB2 Karma

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Remember all of those people who said we should let people pick which bathroom they want to use based on the gender with which they “identify”? Well, look what this

#ncpol: There’s a NEW shih-tzu in town!

Posted on January 26, 2018January 26, 2018 by Brant Clifton

… And his name is Andy or Paul. Speck, I think. Anyway, longtime readers of this site may remember we dubbed former N&O scribbler John Frank “The Shih-Tzu” for his

Folwell gives state retirees early peek at benefits of Trump tax cut

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Thanks to the work of North Carolina state treasurer Dale Folwell’s team, state government retirees will be some of the first to see the benefits of the tax cut recently

Illegals storm Thilli$$$ Capitol Hill office

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Brant Clifton

They raised Cain-itos outside Chuck Schumer’s house. Now, they’re doing it in Thom’s DC digs. What gives? Why are these people harrassing their amigos? Could they just be in the

A paid holiday for YOU! And YOU! (And you, TOO!)

Posted on January 25, 2018January 25, 2018 by Brant Clifton

The board at Sanford’s Central Carolina Community College, according to state auditor Beth Wood, has been in as generous a mood as Oprah lately: […] Central Carolina Community College (College)