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Is there even a thimble-full of decency or shame left in the drive-by media?

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We usually try to keep our focus on events related to The Carolinas, but the circus in Ferguson, Missouri has us stepping out from those parameters. I am a repentant,

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#NCSEN: Suffolk U. / USA Today poll says Hagan 45, Tillis 43, Haugh 5

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Brant Clifton

ANOTHER major poll has come out showing incumbent senator Kay Hagan on top but within the margin of error.   A total of 500 likely general election voters were surveyed

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics

#NCSEN: Write-in candidate John Rhodes jumps into fray firing with both barrels

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Brant Clifton

He’s got a souped-up new web site.  And he — according to his campaign team — is “tanned, rested, and ready to go” like Richard Nixon in 1968.  Former GOP

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics
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#NCSEN: Kay’s Nicaraguan Pants

Posted on August 20, 2014August 20, 2014 by Brant Clifton

It looks like Big Boy Pants will be facing off against Nicaraguan Pants this year. We’ve written extensively about Thom Tillis using the powers of his office to benefit very

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics
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#NCGA: All roads lead back to Thom (and his campaign fund)

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Brant Clifton

During debate this week on economic development incentives, legislators were reminded that $7 million in state incentives had been allocated for the filming of CBS’s “Under The Dome” series in

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Moore County joins Brunswick, Beaufort, and Pitt in opposing illegal alien relocation

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Moore County’s board of commissioners made it official last night — passing a resolution very similar to one recently passed by Brunswick County leaders.  Our quadruple Dingleberry Award-winning twice weekly

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Media, Moore County
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#NCSEN: PPP says Hagan 42, Tillis 38, Haugh 8

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Democrat incumbent climbs slightly while the GOP challenger gains 4 points and the Libertarian holds where he was last month.  (Margin of error is +-3.4 percent.  A total of

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Congress, Media
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#FAIL: HB 1224 dies. Thom The Therrible learns karma is a female dog.

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Speaker of The House tried to ram through a bill containing a smorgasbord of odds-and-ends spending desired by the governor and various special interests.  It got shot down once

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Monkey Business Update: party disloyalty, HB 1224, and film incentives back from the dead

Posted on August 19, 2014August 19, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Well, the effort to bring party disloyalty into the debate on HB 1224 blew up rather unceremoniously.   Apparently, some ”pain-in-the-ass-teabagger web site”   spilled the beans before the plan could

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Civitas boss: We WILL be watching on HB 1224

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Brant Clifton

General Assembly Republicans had a rather heated caucus meeting about the controversial HB 1224 legislation on Monday.  Sources in the caucus meeting told us that sources close to speaker Thom

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, Politics, Thom Tillis
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