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Occupy crowd has a friend in a high place at NC DEM HQ

Posted on February 19, 2015February 19, 2015 by Brant Clifton

  When you’re down and troubled and you need a helping hand and nothing, whoa, nothing is going right. Close your eyes and think of me and soon I will

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Media, Politics
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#ncga: Instead of tax hikes & corporate welfare, why not tax reform?

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Proponents of state ”economic incentives” and the so-called “gas tax cut” claim that we need to enact all of this in order to stay competitive with our neighbors.  The really

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government
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Renee Ellmers & the 2012, 2013 AND 2015 late-term abortion bans

Posted on February 18, 2015February 18, 2015 by Brant Clifton

US Rep. Renee Ellmers recently made a mess for herself on an issue that should have been a slam-dunk for her.  Ellmers has regularly been endorsed by pro-life activists.  Yet,

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Congress, Renee Ellmers
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#ncga: Pay raises for Speaker Moore’s staff. A gas tax hike for US.

Posted on February 18, 2015February 18, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The drive-bys gave us a peek at the salaries of all of new House speaker Tim Moore’s staff.  Most staffers got raises in the ballpark of twenty percent.   One

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Economy, Media, NC legislature
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#ncga: Gas tax hike for US. Tax breaks for airlines & data centers.

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Legislators are spinning us that a lot of road work needs to be done statewide, but there just isn’t enough money out there to do it.  So, they are selling

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP
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The left gets pinned down on legislating from the bench

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Pro-lifers are frequently told to shut up about abortion because the US Supreme Court made it a matter of settled law in 1973.  Leftists giggled at social conservatives when a

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Media
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How to stop ISIS? Send in the social workers!

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

If you’ve had some discomfort with the way DC has been handling the war on terror lately, the recent words of State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf should make you run

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Media, Obama
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#ncga: Crowd-funding, an interesting option in economic development debate

Posted on February 16, 2015February 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Politicians these days are all crowing about being “job creators.”  Gov. Pat McCrory has emptied out the corporate welfare accounts at the Department of Commerce, and he’s coming to us

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Congress, Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP
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Ferguson-ing the Chapel Hill shooting

Posted on February 15, 2015February 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The recent murder of three students in Chapel Hill handed the drive-bys exactly what they were looking for.  Ammo for whipping up hysteria over ‘racism.’  They tried with George Zimmerman

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Media
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#ncga: The era of ‘tax-and-spend’ Republicans

Posted on February 15, 2015February 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I took a look at that bill –portrayed in the media as a gas tax cut — that is really a gas tax hike.  It lumps all kinds of changes

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Tea Party
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