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#ncga: A ploy to ratchet up state spending?

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

  I stumbled across something interesting yesterday while nosing through cyberspace.  State Rep. David Lewis (R-Harnett) released some documentation for the legislature’s Revenue Laws Committee meeting yesterday.  (Even though they

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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Walter Jones: Boehner & co. “screwing over the American people” with spending bill

Posted on December 9, 2014December 9, 2014 by Brant Clifton

He’s added his name to a letter seeking a short-term government funding bill that defunds any agency that would facilitate amnesty. Now, congressman Walter Jones is criticizing his caucus’s leadership

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Congress, Economy, Media, Politics, Walter Jones
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New Hanover County: voting machine admin password, config info leaked to public

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Brant Clifton

A protest of the results in a county commissioner race in this southeastern county has blossomed into a full-blown PR fiasco for the local and state elections boards. A significant

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Law & Order, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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govt shutdown or amnesty: which one “costs” more?

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The DC GOP establishment, and their media puppets on Fox News, are quaking over the idea of a government “shutdown.”  Give the Democrats what they want.  Don’t make Barry mad,

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Congress, Economy, Law & Order, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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Playing to the mob in the street: ‘Indicting’ an entire profession

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I was floored to see that North Carolinians actually voted to make their right to a jury trial optional. Now, the constant drumbeat of drive-by generated negative publicity about a couple

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National defense bill loaded with non-military pork (like Renee’s museum)

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The US House is loading up a defense authorization bill with so much non-defense related pork that even The Washington Post is appalled: A sweeping $521 billion package that authorizes

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Congress, Media, Renee Ellmers
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McCrory on right track re: amnesty. (Now, about those GOPers in Congress ..)

Posted on December 4, 2014December 4, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve had our issues with a lot of decisions made by this governor.  But we do have to give him kudos for his positions on illegal immigration.  In 2013, he

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Congress, Law & Order, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Obama, Pat McCrory
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Orange Co. Commish: ‘It’s very American to be prejudiced’

Posted on December 3, 2014December 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Many of you ACC sports fans may recognize the name Barry Jacobs.  He writes a lot on the ACC, and is a regular talking-head on all things ACC.  Well, Barry

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Law & Order, Media, Politics
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The DC GOP’s three-card monte scam on amnesty

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Question: What do you get when you hold your nose while voting? Answer: Pretty much the same damn thing you would have gotten from the guys and gals you voted

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Congress
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Monkey business galore in Lee, Haywood counties

Posted on December 2, 2014December 2, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Haywood County is — I believe — the last county in North Carolina to elect its tax collector.  The Democrats have a stranglehold on this western North Carolina jurisdiction. They

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