The Daily Haymaker

Tillis works with GOP’s left wing to foil Trump efforts to end green energy subsidies

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Here’s yet one more example of our senior US senator standing in the way of the Trump agenda: Phasing out Biden-era green energy tax credits is dividing Senate Republicans as

Tillis gives cover to Dem senator’s screaming attack on Homeland Security Secretary Noem

Posted on June 21, 2025June 21, 2025 by Brant Clifton

In the real world, somebody like Thom Tillis would be quietly escorted out the front door of his workplace by security with his belongings in a bank box. Tillis originally

New board for state pension plan BIG win for Raleigh pols, Wall Street cronies

Posted on June 16, 2025June 16, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Chapel Hill Republican — and rookie state treasurer – Bradford Chatsworth Fancyboy Briner IV continues to earn rave reviews from the Raleigh chattering class for his work in demolishing the

The von Haefen crowd and their ‘severed head’ comedy

Posted on June 15, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Gee — the ‘Peace & Love’ crowd is not generating much of either here recently. Check out the recent and on-going violence in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Minnesota, Chicago,

Lawsuit against Team Berger headed to Court of Appeals. (Uncle Phil is NOT pleased.)

Posted on June 13, 2025June 13, 2025 by Brant Clifton

A Rockingham County GOP candidate is not giving up his fight against Phil Berger‘s political operation. Attorneys for Team Berger have attempted to stomp the life out of Craig Travis‘s

Balanced Nutrition’s $100k+ debt to taxpayers: no payments received, gone to collections

Posted on June 13, 2025June 13, 2025 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been tracking Balanced Nutrition – a non profit contractor to the NC Department of Health & Human Services (NC DHHS) run by former Second Lady Yolanda Hill and staffed

Interesting timing, wouldn’t you say?

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

Everyone who hasn’t spent the last few months in outer space or living under a rock knows there is a pretty big election already underway in Rockingham County. The county’s

Longtime NCGOP leader / activist scolds Simmons on handling of Berger-Tillis party disloyalty issue

Posted on June 12, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Some sleight-of-hand helped US senator Thom Tillis and state senate president pro tem Phil Berger escape the wrath of attendees at the recently concluded NCGOP state convention. Beaufort County attorney

No Kings? (Well, maybe some Queens and not-so-funny jokers)

Posted on June 11, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It appears that allies of the hooligans currently destroying Los Angeles are plotting to spread the mayhem to all 50 states — ours included, of course. Our local drive-by propaganda

Stein joins fellow DEMs in endorsing rioting, burning, assaults on law enforcement

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Yes, that’s our very own Josh Stein — our state’s former top law enforcement officer — joining his fellow Democrat governors to take Trump Derangement Syndrome to a new level: