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We owe, we owe, it’s off to spend we go …

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Ever wonder why we keep reelecting politicians who dig us deeper into debt? Conservative author John Hayward may be on to the answer: Perhaps one reason so many American voters

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campaign 2016, Media, Politics
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Monkey Business Report: Facebook & conservatives

Posted on May 18, 2016May 18, 2016 by Brant Clifton

For a while, I had thought some monkey business was going on.  Strange things were happening at the Haymaker’s Facebook page.  We were being blocked from posting new items.  Bizarre

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campaign 2016, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: Mommy state alive and well in GOP-run House

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Brant Clifton

*Uncle Timmy wants you to eat your vegetables.* It really is a shame that, in an overwhelmingly Republican chamber, you get run over and beat down for daring to question

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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Economic development & rallying outside forces to fight North Carolina. (An AG’s work is NEVER DONE.)

Posted on May 17, 2016May 17, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Itzhak Perlman?  He ain’t comin.’  And it has Craig Jarvis and Blinkin’ Chris’s special friend Rob Schofield PEEVED.  Since being caught lobbying CEOs to make a fuss over HB2, our

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#nc-08: Establishment Puppet.com

Posted on May 17, 2016May 17, 2016 by Brant Clifton

My how the worm turns.  In 2012, Richard Hudson moved back to North Carolina and ran for Congress as a “small businessman’‘ seeking to “take our country back.”  Never mind

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campaign 2016, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Richard Hudson
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#ncga: (*SNIFF* I smell bacon.) NO pork for YOU !!!!

Posted on May 17, 2016May 17, 2016 by Brant Clifton

It sounds like Seinfeld’s ‘soup nazi’ paid a visit to the NC House Republican Caucus confab yesterday.  Some honorables seeking PORK were de-nied. It’s budget time.  So, the GOPers were

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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Shoving Burr, Thilli$ in the RIGHT direction on racial quotas

Posted on May 17, 2016May 17, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Believe it or not, it has actually been a struggle to get our Republican senators — Richard Burr and Thom Thilli$ — to sign on to an effort to defund

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campaign 2016, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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HB2: Pat travels. Roy fiddles. Binky piddles

Posted on May 16, 2016May 16, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Here’s a great primer on how drive-by “news” coverage in our fair capital city works.  First, you get a press release / tweet from a liberal pol / organization, like

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campaign 2016, Media, Politics
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#ncga: Gettin’ PAID in LINCOLN COUNTY?

Posted on May 16, 2016May 16, 2016 by Brant Clifton

In Lincoln County, there is a lot of talk about economic development.  In November, there was talk of a proposed industrial client investing $12 million in property adjacent to the

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#ncga: Gettin’ PAID in Hendersonville

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Brant Clifton

SOME of the honorables on Jones Street are pushing through changes to Hendersonville’s charter:  Got that?  “The mayor AND council members shall receive for their services such salaries as the

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