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#NCGA: The abortion motorcycle rides again. (Um, sort of.)

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Brant Clifton

There’s a rather, um, neat trick perpetrated on Jones Street, Capitol Hill, and in legislative bodies all over the country. Find an issue that the chamber is split on, and

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#NCGA: Drive-by Binky rankled by big govt? Seriously?

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

Rankled.  If the drive-bys can use that word and play that card, then — by God — so can I. WRAL’s ace cub reporter (and lunch-fetcher for Miz Leslie) Binky  is

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#NCGA: GOP House member laments his party’s back-track, retreat on tax policy

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Every once in a while we’re blessed with a lone voice of common sense, out in the wilderness, trying to inject some common sense into the nonsense that is the

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#NCSEN: ANOTHER poll (this time from conservatives) showing slim Hagan lead

Posted on August 1, 2014August 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Human Events, a longtime flagship publication of the American conservative movement, has partnered with Gravis Marketing to take the political temperature in The Tar Heel State.  They conducted a poll of

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#NCPOL: McHenry at Boehner’s right hand in amnesty cave

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Alabama senator Jeff Sessions is putting in a yeoman’s effort trying to derail the GOP cave-in on amnesty for illegal aliens. Sessions has been at the forefront of a grassroots campaign

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#NCSEN: Tillis goes Hollywood, backs $40 million in additional state incentives for film industry

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Brant Clifton

During the recently-completed GOP primary for US Senate, speaker Thom Tillis told a fundraiser crowd in Wilmington he favored the retention of state incentives for studios shooting movies and TV

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCSEN: Paying people to stay home with the kids?

Posted on July 31, 2014July 31, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Kay Hagan thinks businesses should be mandated to provide PAID leave to employees to deal with family concerns like childbirth or sick children.   On the face of it, that

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Keep that PC-ness coming: New UNC BOG boss a big fan of “diversity”

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Brant Clifton

If you thought the GOP takeover of Raleigh was going to loosen the leftist stranglehold on the UNC system and strike a blow against political correctness, THINK AGAIN.  The UNC Board

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campaign 2014, Education, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#NCSEN: A NEW Tillis campaign fund

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been keeping an eye on the FEC web site. We’ve seen a couple of extra Thom Tillis-affiliated organizations pop up, but one of the extras is finally seeing some

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Feds dumping border-crossing kids in the Carolinas

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Department of Homeland Security is pretty much ignoring the flood of illegals pouring across our southern border.  But they have PLENTY of time and manpower to go raid the

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campaign 2014, Congress, Law & Order, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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