The Daily Haymaker

#ncpol: Binky gets a little hinky with crime lab facts

Posted on October 5, 2016October 5, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Laura Leslie had an attack of honesty not too long ago — when she admitted that the HB2 “losses” were really not that big of a deal to North Carolina’s

#ncpol: It’s ALL about Trump

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Brant Clifton

I’ve been watching this politics game for more than three decades now. I can’t recall — even during the Reagan years — a presidential candidate sucking ALL of the oxygen out of

#ncpol: Educating ‘Lieutenant Linda’

Posted on October 4, 2016October 4, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Wouldn’t it be nice if the drive bys fact-checked and interrogated Democrat candidates like they do Republicans? (We can all dream, can’t we?) The Asheville Citizen-Times’s Mark Barrett was standing

Conservative Review on NCGOPers in DC: Meadows, Jones, Holding most conservative, Burr & Tillis most liberal

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Brant Clifton

It’s election time, and we’re hearing all of the elected ones brag about how great they are and how scummy the other person is. If you’re reading this blog, it’s

#ncpol: Hiding the Trump signs? (SHENANIGANS!)

Posted on October 4, 2016October 4, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Christine Gates, a respected Tea Party leader from western North Carolina is calling SHENANIGANS on the folks at NCGOP HQ: What is going on in North Carolina?? It’s no accident.

#ncpol: Polls. DO THEY MATTER in 2016?

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Brant Clifton

During my time in the driveby media and while doing this blogging thing, I have developed relationships with several — some big, some not-so — political campaign consulting professionals. More

Handing over The Internet to Third World Goons?

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Brant Clifton

THAT looks like what Barry Obama is trying to do here in the waning days of his regime. But four attorneys general — ours, who doesn’t do a damn thing,

Consolidation, layoffs at N&O, CharO: Time for the flat-line, last rites?

Posted on September 30, 2016September 30, 2016 by Brant Clifton

I keep getting hit with e-mails offering bargain basement deals for subscriptions to The Raleigh News & Observer. The number of people I know who actually admit to reading the

“Republicans For Clinton” endorses Richard Burr

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Yep. You read that right. *Stability.* That’s code for keeping things AS-IS for the clique running the place. I looked into this crowd, and they are for real. For the most

Another day, another spending bill (SIGH)

Posted on September 29, 2016September 29, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Once again, Congress has kicked their budgeting and fiscal management duties down the road. The House passed another continuing resolution — keeping the government funded fully through December