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The GOP: Winning, then surrendering

Posted on January 17, 2015January 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

‘Crazy’ candidates keep GOP from shedding label of Old White Guy Party –– actual McClatchy news story headline   When I read the above headline, I was ready to pound

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Congress, McClatchy, Media, NCGOP, Tea Party
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She screwed us over on amnesty. Now, she’s throwing pro-lifers under the bus.

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Renee Ellmers is shedding those issue positions and campaign promises like a snake sheds its skin.  She told us all during the 2014 campaign she was “against amnesty” and even

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Congress, Renee Ellmers
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Big Govt. Barbie on BOTH SIDES of the amnesty issue

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

  It’s usually no surprise to see a politician try to take both sides of an issue.  But it takes a special kind of gall to do it within ONE 24

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Congress, Renee Ellmers

#ncga: All by himself

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Hosannas and Hallelujahs, brothers and sisters. Paul Tine is now unaffiliated. UN-A-FFIL-I-ATED.   Rest easy. Sleep well. Go on about your business. He’s courageously gone off all by himself (favoring

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Media, NC legislature
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Ellmers triples down on amnesty

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

She refused to defund Obama’s executive order on amnesty for illegal aliens, refused to deport sex offenders and abusers, and would not defund amnesty for unaccompanied illegal alien children.  And

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Congress, Media, Renee Ellmers
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#ncga: The Edgar Starnes affair

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I’ve been hearing some grumbling about former House majority leader Edgar Starnes’s (R) decision to give up his House seat and skedaddle over to state treasurer Janet Cowell’s (D) team.

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Two years later: STILL no conclusion on probe of Sen. Hartsell

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The GOP-controlled state board of elections just can’t seem to find time to get to the bottom of nominal-GOP state senator Fletcher Hartsell’s campaign spending issues. We’ve officially passed the

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NC legislature
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Chatham County’s Duncan spanks Big Gov’t. Barbie over amnesty votes

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers has shown her true colors this week in regard to amnesty for illegal aliens.  Jim Duncan, chairman of the Chatham County GOP in Ellmers’s district, has stepped

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Congress, Renee Ellmers
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Ellmers ringleader of GOP rebels opposing anti-amnesty amendment

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The House voted on legislation to defund DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — which is Barry Obama’s plan to provide annesty to illegal alien children.  The policy has been

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Congress, Renee Ellmers
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Lefties keep beating anti-police drum ON OUR DIME

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

You would think — in the wake of the murders of those NYPD officers and the attempted murder of that Durham cop — leftists would tone down their anti-police rhetoric.

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Education, Law & Order, Media, NC State Government, Politics
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