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End solitary confinement in state prisons? (Um, NO.)

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Blinkin’ Chris and Angry Rob and their comedy web site are calling for the end of solitary confinement in North Carolina prisons:  Last year, North Carolinians were stunned and horrified

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#ncga: ‘Paranoia will destroy ya’

Posted on April 7, 2015April 7, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The Kinks got it sooooooo right. It is my understanding that this particular web site is living rent-free in the heads of many pols in the General Assembly.  Democrat consultant

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#ncga: Welcome to the era of ‘grass-topping’

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Brant Clifton

In DC, there is an expression called ”astro-turfing.”  That is a slang term used to describe the manufacturing of the illusion of  support for, or opposition to, a politician or policy.

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NC-05: Yes, Virginia. You DO have a primary opponent.

Posted on April 7, 2015April 7, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Virginia Foxx has enjoyed life in Washington.  She’s risen through the ranks to be a trusted adviser to House speaker John Boehner.  Like fellow GOPer Renee Ellmers,  Foxx has sided

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#ncga: Benefit corporations (They’re back!)

Posted on April 6, 2015April 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Just like Jason Voorhees.  You kill off B-corps in the General Assembly, and they rise from the dead.   Benefit corporations are different from the traditional sort of corporation we

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NC-02: He’s in! Duncan done testing waters, ready to tackle Ellmers in 2016

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The worse kept secret in North Carolina’s Second Congressional District is finally out there for all to see:  Chatham County’s Jim Duncan is coming after John Boehner and Kevin McCarthy’s

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#ncga: Making deals — with the devil

Posted on April 5, 2015April 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Well, the GOP has officially surrendered their advantage in the area of taxes.  After so many decades as the low – / anti-tax party, the GOP majority on Jones Street

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#Amnesty: ”unaccompanied children” continue to be relocated to Carolinas

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It’s fallen off the radar in the drive-by media, but the relocation of “unaccompanied children” border-crashers from Latin America is still going strong. The US Department of Health and Human

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#ncga: $4 million from taxpayers for an “untitled television project” ?

Posted on April 4, 2015April 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We don’t know what it’s called or about.  We don’t know who’s in it.  We don’t know if it will even be picked up by a network.  But it’s getting

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#ncga: McCrory, Moore and the “manufactured” threat to religious liberty

Posted on April 4, 2015April 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Our Republican governor made it clear he is thoroughly unimpressed about the current debate on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: Gov. Pat McCrory appeared on WFNC radio in Fayetteville Thursday

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