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#NCSEN: Fact-checking the Ex-Im Bank, corporate welfare discussion

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney has waded into our marquee election.  I am typically a big fan of Carney.  (I even bought ONE of his books.)  But painting Thom Tillis

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Monkey Business Alert: “diversity mapping” and “geospatial discrimination”

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Sure, those terms sound like something from a George Orwell or Ayn Rand novel.  But unfortunately, they are very real. The Future of Freedom Foundation fills us in on the

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Dr. Creech, vultures are bipartisan.

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The media hysteria over the budget debate on Jones Street is reaching a crescendo.  Never mind that Democrats — when they were in charge — actually debated the budget until

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The drive-by media and ‘the do-rag rule’

Posted on July 26, 2014July 26, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The latest news about the murder of a UNC-Chapel Hill professor brings to mind the ‘do-rag’ rule  —  a term first coined by or friend Bob Lee Swagger.  What is

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Monkey Business Update: FOREIGN travel by Members of Congress

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We got a tidal wave of enthusiastic support of our post on taxpayer-funded travel by US senators. Many readers asked us to look into taxpayer-funded trips OVERSEAS.  You ask, we

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics
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#NCGA: WWThD (What Will Thom Do?)

Posted on July 25, 2014July 25, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The North Carolina Senate has voted to send one heck of a hot potato over to the NC House. The economic development package creates a new method for handing out

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Monkey Business Report: Taxpayer-funded travel for US senators & staff

Posted on July 24, 2014July 24, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Washington Examiner — the conservative daily that employees Renee Ellmers’s favorite “liberal reporter” — has put together a very interesting piece about how much we’re shelling out to cover

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“EAT” your toll road. It’s, um, GOOD for you!

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Gov. Pat McCrory trotted out NCDOT secretary Tony Tata to defend the wildly controversial I-77 “HOT lane” tolling project in Mecklenburg County.  (McCrory, House speaker Thom Tillis, and speaker pro

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#NCSEN: Rhodes, Waddell AND Gurney appear to qualify for write-in status on Nov ballot

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Democrat Kay Hagan, Republican Thom Tillis, and Libertarian Sean Haugh already have spots on the November ballot for US Senate.  It appears that three more people have met or surpassed

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics
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#NCSEN: Tillis’s Koch $$$ a “problem”, but NEVER MIND Kay’s Hollywood, abortion & radical left $$$

Posted on July 24, 2014July 24, 2014 by Brant Clifton

N&O executive editor John Drescher’s pet shih-tzu is all worked up over the fact that Charles Koch — of the ”evil” Koch Industries empire — and his family have maxed out

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