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Goliath slaps back at David in I-77 toll fracas

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That noisy bunch of grassroots folks in Widen I-77 have been creating quite a fuss in recent months.  They are mostly residents of northern Mecklenburg County who really don’t want

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#ncga: YOU are RE-leased !!!!

Posted on August 21, 2015August 21, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We had this item posted yesterday. Then, we receive this email which seems to back up what our sources in that post were telling us:   From: “Candace Slate (Rep.

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#ncga: Fear and loathing in the caucus meeting

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There were a lot of headlines celebrating an alleged agreement between House and Senate leaders on a new state budget.  The magic number?  $21.735 billion.    This number has both

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#ncga: Oh, how those things you sign your name to come back to bite you …

Posted on August 20, 2015August 20, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Politicians are eager to win votes and please everybody — ALL AT ONCE.  It’s not all that uncommon to see some of those folks coming down on both sides of an

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Education spending: Surrendering on the Mo’ Money meme?

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Liberals preach the gospel of spending more money to save the world and take care of EVERYONE.  The alleged conservative party in this country has a platform that suggests it

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A McCrory power play? (Gov.’s team pushing Ricky Diaz for top NCGOP staff post.)

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Young Ricky Diaz of New Jersey has certainly caught the fancy of North Carolina’s Republican governor.  He was Pat McCrory’s campaign spokesman in 2012.  Diaz was the governor’s spokesman for

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#ncga: TABOR terror

Posted on August 17, 2015August 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

TABOR.  (No, not the city in Columbus County.)  I mean:  Taxpayer Bill of Rights.   The very mention of it to liberals has the same effect as a crucifix or

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What a difference 27 years makes.

Posted on August 16, 2015August 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The year was 1988.  That was the first national election I was eligible to vote in. As a young, wide-eyed bushy-tailed college kid, I had the great opportunity to watch-and-learn,

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Readin’, Ritin’ & (*CRACK!*) Re-educatin’

Posted on August 15, 2015August 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

When you think of community colleges, you tend to think of things like, oh, job training and continuing education.  Somehow, on a lot of community college campuses, the lines are being

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#ncpol: Details keep dripping out on L’affaire Pittenger

Posted on August 15, 2015August 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Word came out this week that the FBI is looking at congressman Robert Pittenger’s family business.  It is *amazing* how much we are hearing about said probe from the alleged focus of

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