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I’m Back! (Um, what’d I miss?)

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

As some of you may have noticed, I took a little break.  It wasn’t a pleasure cruise — like Gilligan and The Skipper took.  But, we needed to do it.

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A note to our readers

Posted on May 1, 2015May 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

This weekend, I will start taking some medical leave.  I have a surgical procedure scheduled for this coming week that the doctors tell me really shouldn’t wait much longer. It

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#ncgop: Apparently, it’s ALL about Dee (Stewart).

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Civitas outed him and another consultant in an exposé about the seedy side of the alternative energy game.  NCGOP vice-chairman Carolyn Justice says he played a big part in her

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#ncgop: Michelle Nix, independent candidate

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been hearing  that NCGOP vice chairman candidate Michelle Nix is being wooed ‘hot-and-heavy’ by the camp of the establishment candidate for state party chairman, Craig Collins.  We’re hearing it

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#ncgop: Claude Pope endorses Collins in chairman race

Posted on May 1, 2015May 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The outgoing state party chairman has joined the rest of the elected and unelected party establishment in endorsing 10th congressional district GOP chairman Craig Collins to be the next state

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#ncga: The Hamlet of Cherryville

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There’s an old saying about how when you find yourself in a hole you need to stop digging.  (It took a while for Renee Ellmers to grasp that with her

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#ncga: drones and waivers, oh my.

Posted on April 30, 2015April 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The House Judiciary IV committee had a hearing this morning.  (Of course, we had moles in the room.)   One of the topics they discussed was the new regulations governing

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#ncga: Of drones and men …

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I’m the last guy to throw in with the black helicopters and tin-foil helmet crowd.  But I found some language in the new state rules for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS,

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#ncga: A rumble at the Republican caucus meeting?

Posted on April 30, 2015April 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Everybody seems to be buzzing about the upcoming Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.  I am thinking the Blust-Hastings matchup might get just as interesting.  We documented an earlier exchange between Reps. Kelly Hastings

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#ncga: PTSDed House leaders relent under pressure from ‘silly fringe websites’

Posted on April 30, 2015April 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I got word yesterday from a House mole that we’re STILL living rent-free in the brains of state House leadership:  “A directive was sent out in the Republican caucus.  We

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