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#ncpol: NOT Everybody Loves Ted

Posted on December 12, 2014December 12, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Texas senator Ted Cruz (R) is one of the more popular political figures among American conservatives.  But two of North Carolina’s representatives in Washington have been showing the Texan a

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Congress, Media, Renee Ellmers
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Meadows, Jones show spine in opposing CRomnibus. Other NCGOPers? Not so much.

Posted on December 12, 2014December 12, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Barry Obama and John Boehner got their $1 trillion spending monstrosity pushed through the House last night by a 219-206 margin.  Amnesty got fully funded.  So did ObamaCare.  Renee Ellmers

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Congress, George Holding, Mark Meadows, Patrick McHenry, Renee Ellmers, Richard Hudson, Virginia Foxx, Walter Jones
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Repeat after me: Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money … (C’mon! Everybody!)

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The drumbeat continues.  Local governments and their lobbyists are gung-ho on the idea of digging deeper into our already ravaged wallets.  They’ve been spinning us for days now about how

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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N&O, other drive-bys trying to turn Sanford into Ferguson

Posted on December 12, 2014December 12, 2014 by Brant Clifton

NC SBI to investigate police shooting in Sanford. That’s what the headline screams in the N&O this morning.  Though, nowhere in the story does it mention that an SBI probe is

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Walter Jones the only NC hero in the House re: Cromnibus

Posted on December 11, 2014December 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Well, the vote went down on a procedural rule to let John Boehner’s ObamaCare-funding, amnesty funding billion-dollar cromnibus spending binge move forward.  Sixteen House Republicans refused to support the rule

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Congress, Media, Walter Jones
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Why cut spending when you can just holler for Mo’ Money?

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We thought we saw the shape of things to come in that Revenue Laws Committee meeting on Jones Street earlier this week. The meeting featured a presentation from the UNC

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, Politics
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The travesty of the release of the CIA “torture” report

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Some of us are old enough to remember the damage done in the 70s to our intelligence community by the Congress’s Church and Pike committees.  The Democrats — acting on

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Congress
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You can’t do THAT! WHY, it’s — um, er — RACIST !!!! (Yeah, that’s it. Racist.)

Posted on December 10, 2014December 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The UNC Board of Governors is holding hearings on whether to consolidate or cancel out all of these state-funded “institutes” and “centers” based on the UNC system campuses. Lefties don’t

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Education, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government
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PPP Poll: 31% approval? (Burr, that’s cold.)

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

That’s right. He will have been in office for 12 years when the 2016 campaign heats up.  But, according to the leftist Public Policy Polling organization, 31 percent of voters

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Congress, Media, Richard Burr, Thom Tillis
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The $1T lame-duck sellout

Posted on December 10, 2014December 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

[Methinks this graphic will be getting a lot of work during the upcoming congressional session.] Voters just gave Republicans one hell of a mandate: Stop Obama. Stop ObamaCare. Stop Amnesty.

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Congress, Economy, Media, Politics
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