The Daily Haymaker

#ncpol: N&O, Roy Cooper’s crime lab get their day(s) in court

Posted on October 8, 2016 by Brant Clifton

We told you it was coming. Now, it’s here: Three News & Observer employees and a former staffer were questioned in Wake County Superior Court on Friday about their role

NC’s hyper-regulated health care

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Only New Jersey, Hawaii, DC, and Vermont slap more red-tape on their health care providers than North Carolina does. THAT information comes from a recent study by The Mercatus Center

Lyin’ Binky, The Crooked AP, and FERTILE GROUND FOR THE KKK?

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Here’s ol’ Empty-Head himself on Twitter: Yep. Promoting MORE leftist propaganda with a photo of an event proven absolutely to be a fraud. The Round Rev and his posse held

#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,