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#ncgop: Now THIS is what we’re talking about !

Posted on June 26, 2015June 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’re often accused around here of being too tough on the boys and girls at NCGOP HQ.  But — with what I saw on Twitter today, from the party’s new

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campaign 2016, Hasan Harnett, Mark Meadows, Media, NCGOP, Patrick McHenry, Politics
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#ncpol: An opportunity for Dan Forest?

Posted on June 26, 2015June 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

If you’re like me, you’re probably a bit disheartened by our Lt. Governor.  Dan Forest talked a good game on the 2012 campaign trail.  He talked directly to frustrated Tea Partiers.

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campaign 2016, Dan Forest, Media, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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#nc11: Meadows gets his committee back. Will he keep his cojones?

Posted on June 26, 2015June 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Fresh off of being labeled a traitor by a little boy named Patrick McHenry, congressman Mark Meadows has his committee chairmanship back: The second bit of good news is that Rep.

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campaign 2016, Congress, Mark Meadows, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Piddling while America is ”rewritten” and “remade”

Posted on June 26, 2015June 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

In 1973, we discovered — thanks to The Supreme Court — that we have a “right” to abortion.  In the last week, we’ve learned that we have a “right” to

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Congress, Media, Politics
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“Real” vs. ”unreal” journalists: One heck of a slippery slope

Posted on June 26, 2015June 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It’s weird to find myself on the same side as blinkin’ Chris and his comedy web site: Education reporter Lindsay Wagner was kicked out of a North Carolina Business Committee

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Media, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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Lake Norman chamber jumps into I-77 toll road fray

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The proposal to install tolls on I-77 in northern Mecklenburg County — championed by Pat McCrory and Thom Tillis —  has turned into quite a political hot potato.   A

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Media, NC legislature, Politics
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#NCSEN: Burr vs. Blue in ’16?

Posted on June 26, 2015June 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

THAT is the spin that is making its way around our fair capital city these days.  Sources in the know up that way tell me that operatives close to Hillary

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campaign 2016, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Richard Burr
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Thom & Renee: the hit of The Ripon Society’s party

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Brant Clifton

For those of you who may not be familiar with this Ripon crowd, they were founded to counter the rise of the Goldwater / Reagan people in the GOP and

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Renee Ellmers, Thom Tillis
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Checking in with ol’ Thom

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Those of us on the right were told to relax — give the man some time.  Our reservations about the prospect of US Senator Thom Tillis would prove to be

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Heritage Action: Jones, Meadows NC’s top conservatives; Ellmers, Burr most liberal GOPers

Posted on June 24, 2015June 24, 2015 by Brant Clifton

According to the folks over at Jim DeMint’s shop, the two guys in our delegation in the most trouble with leadership are doing the best job of abiding by the

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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