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#ncga: Teacher screening bill leaves wiggle room for state BofEd, DPI

Posted on June 3, 2016June 3, 2016 by Brant Clifton

The honorables in Jones Street’s upper chamber have passed a bill allowing for background checks on prospective public school teachers.   The Asheville drivebys are apparently taking credit for it.  Some

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#ncpol: Lefties,bathrooms, passports and the “intersex” thing

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Those of us out here in the real world who believe something as radical as “Those born male ARE male, and those born female ARE female” are regularly savaged as

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#ncga: Lower tuition. (Um, racist?)

Posted on June 2, 2016June 2, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Apparently, so. It’s really amazing.  The same crowd that cheers Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton for railing against the high cost of college and wanting to either (a)

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: Trying to make cents of all those budget dollars

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Well, the honorables on Jones Street have killed A LOT of trees to try and explain their spending plan for 2016-2017. Republicans will tout it as fiscal responsibility, while Democrats

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HB2, Rachel Dolezal, and identifyin’

Posted on June 1, 2016June 1, 2016 by Brant Clifton

It’s been interesting listening to lefties attack HB2 with analogies to and quotes from MLK Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. It’s a great way to shut

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NC-02: Lefties @ IndyWeek endorse Ellmers

Posted on June 1, 2016June 1, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Wow.  An endorsement from The Independent Weekly in a GOP primary.  *What more could a Republican candidate ask for?*: U.S. Representative Renee Ellmers is, by no stretch of the imagination,

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Renee Ellmers
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Polling North Carolina

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Every so often, we get a poll dropped on us about an upcoming election. I am talking to more and more political pros who suggest polling is getting more and

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#nc-06: The Walker Record

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Brant Clifton

His voting record has been a substantial improvement over that of his predecessor Howard Coble. But Mark Walker has picked up some during his first term for, among other things, flip-flopping

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Fool Me Once …

Posted on May 31, 2016May 31, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Regardless of whomever wins The White House, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell want to assure us that they will protect our interests over the next four to eight years: Senate Majority Leader

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NC-08: Horatio Alger, meet Tim D’Annunzio.

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Here in Moore County, some of us were greeted with a pretty ugly campaign mailer from the Richard Hudson campaign hurling all kinds of allegations at challenger Tim D’Annunzio.  Jailed

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