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#NCGA: Agenda 21? Payoff to campaign contributors, lobbyist pals? (You make the call.)

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

In this case, I hate that I am right.  The state Senate Finance Committee is taking up S99 (H440) a/k/a “North Carolina Benefit Corporation Act.”  This sucker has been voted

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campaign 2014, Law & Order, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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NCGA short session: Taking care of (his) business?

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

Well, the honorables are back at it on Jones Street for the so-called “short session.” So, we thought it would be fun to check out their agenda for this week. House

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campaign 2014, Jamie Boles, Media, Moore County, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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BarryO & Mel Watt: Co-pilots in our descent toward another mortgage crisis

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

Sometimes, we find ourselves debating whether Barry Obama is simply incompetent or willfully driving our economy into the toilet.  Naming former North Carolina congressman Mel Watt as director of the

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Richard Burr
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#NCGA: The great revenue chase

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

John Drescher’s pet shih-tzu sat in on a legislative tax committee hearing for us yesterday. (Better him than us.) There were a few newsworthy items that came out of what

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campaign 2014, Economy, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#NCGA #NCGOP: Has the O-Care sellout begun?

Posted on May 15, 2014May 15, 2014 by Brant Clifton

A few weeks ago, a leader of congressional Republicans told us we need to get over our ObamaCare angst because that monstrosity is here to stay.   We’ve received word out

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campaign 2014, Economy, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, ObamaCare, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Frustrated Tea Partier? Look across the pond to the UKIP for inspiration.

Posted on May 14, 2014May 14, 2014 by Brant Clifton

In 1776, we showed the British a few things about the concept of revolution against a tyrannical government.  In 2014, American Tea Partiers could learn a few things from the growing

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#NCGA: Lights, camera — Cronyism !!!

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Um, BOHICA,  We’ve got a $445 million revenue shortfall at the state level. The honorables on Jones Street are getting ready to hit us with toll roads on top of

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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The Clay & Renee Show: Don’t vote and THIS is what you get.

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I want to start off with our most sincere condolences for the family of Keith Crisco.  We did not personally know the gentleman from neighboring Randolph County.  But some of

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Moore County, NCGOP, Politics, Renee Ellmers
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WHAT is Rand Paul smoking?

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Since 1968, there have been eleven elections for US president. Seven of those featured a candidate espousing a free market message beating a statist candidate.  That’s 28 out of the last

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campaign 2014, Congress, Law & Order, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#NCGA: The weather vane strategy on govt meddling in health care

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Ask any Republican legislator in Raleigh — or any Republican serving in the Congress — and they will tell you they don’t like that BAD ObamaCare and they want it

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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