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Expanding Medicaid a Job Creator? (Yeah, just like setting house fires and robbing ABC stores.)

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve got one of the most generous Medicaid programs in the country.  Some health care professional acquaintances of mine tell me that providers in surrounding states are sending medicaid patients

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Economy, ObamaCare, Politics
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Race-pimpery on Parade

Posted on December 18, 2014December 18, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The leftist demagoguery on the incidents in Ferguson, Missouri and Staten Island, NY have been a god-send for the crew whose livelihood is keeping everybody angry at whitey.  “Hands Up,

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Law & Order, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government
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Richard Burr, a Ted Cruz ally? (*Um, Riiiiiiiiiight.*)

Posted on December 18, 2014December 18, 2014 by Brant Clifton

That’s what the DC establishment’s steno pool over at The Politico would have us believe: […] Seven of the 20 Republicans who voted against Cruz are up for reelection in

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Congress, Richard Burr
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AP drive-bys snipe at top Carolinas GOPers, miss by a mile

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The drive-by media across The Carolinas was ga-ga this morning about a story regarding “payouts from a lender” to Gov. Pat McCrory (R-NC) and congressman Mark Sanford (R-SC).  Democrats have

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Media, NCGOP, Pat McCrory
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#ncga: Mars Attacks! (Again, *SIGH*)

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The last we heard from state Rep. Graig Meyer, a visitor from the planet Mars currently representing the Chapel Hill area in the NC House, he was bemoaning the fact

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Media, NC legislature
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NC sea level rise report about to be issued. State panel still clinging to gospel of Gore.

Posted on December 16, 2014December 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The drive-bys tell us that a state panel is about to release its forecasted projections on the rise of the sea level on the North Carolina coast.  This report will

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DENR, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government
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DC GOP seeking vengeance against Cruz, Lee after CRomnibus fight

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Reagan biographer and Human Events editor John Hayward has summed up the recently completed CRomnibus fight in Congress nicely: They say politics makes for strange bedfellows.  Somehow the Republican base

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Congress, Media
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The Blinker and the Scowler tune up for BluePrint Slander-Fest 2015

Posted on December 16, 2014December 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

 THAT is the proclamation of one Rob Schofield — Bert to Chris “Blinkin’ ” Fitzsimon’s Ernie — as the WRAL subsidiary that employs that dynamic duo tunes up for the 2015

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Education, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#NCGA: Sens. Tarte, Hartsell bringing no-bid P3s to Concord, Kannapolis and Mint Hill?

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’re a little late on this one. We’ve been preoccupied with the election and the cromnibus nonsense in Washington.  But this little gem just caught our attention.  There’s been quite

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Uncategorized
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Former Helms aide front-runner for top DC post w/ Sen-elect Tillis?

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

That’s what I am hearing from some pretty well-plugged in folks.  I am hearing that John Mashburn, a former legislative counsel to the late Senator Jesse Helms, is the favorite

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Congress, Thom Tillis
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