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#NCSEN: Write-in Updates

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

For those who want a choice in November’s US Senate race beyond Republican Thom Tillis, Democrat Kay Hagan, and Libertarian Sean Haugh, time is running short.  Anyone who wants to

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics
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Poet-gate and the sad state of media and politics in North Carolina

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Well, the testosterone-challenged crowd in the McClatchy newsrooms have claimed the scalp of a poor, defenseless woman who made the horrific “mistake” of allowing Gov, Pat to appoint her poet

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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NC-02: OMG. When WILL this woman shut up?

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Renee Ellmers.  “OUR” girl.  She publicly pops off at the mouth.  Gets called out for saying something really stupid. Then turns around and personally attacks whoever pointed out her prior

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Moore County, Politics
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#NCGA: No reasonable expectation of privacy while on public street? (Um, Fourth Amendment?)

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I am seriously #SMH on this one: […] Sen. Tamara Barringer, a Cary Republican who is also a law professor, said there is a right to privacy but not always

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campaign 2014, Law & Order, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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US Senate blocks bill to erode religious freedom

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Lefties didn’t like the US Supreme Court’s decision on the Hobby Lobby case:  In Hobby Lobby, the Court ruled that the Obamacare law and its related regulations cannot compel closely

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A drive-by media Panic Attack over the Poet Laureate

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Our Medicaid system is trying to break the bank.  The board of elections is swamped with vote fraud complaints.  An audit of a powerful state senator’s finances has mysteriously disappeared.

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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NC-02: Clay keeping pace with Renee in money chase

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

It’s an overwhelmingly conservative congressional district.  A two term incumbent is running for reelection.  But Clay Aiken’s star power is apparently helping to make a race of it: “American Idol”

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics
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Monkey Business Update: The state’s sea level rise study

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve posted previously about the do-over ordered by the legislature on the projections of sea level changes along the coast.  This information is important because it can affect insurance rates,

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DENR, Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government
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Money for a new PR flack, but not for pay raises, supplies, facilities …

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The educrats and their drive-by media enablers are a piece of work.  They’ve been able to successfully paint legislators in Raleigh as micro-managers deciding who gets a teaching assistant and

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Media, Moore County

NC-06: It’s Walker in a Runaway

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

I don’t think anybody saw this beatdown coming.  The entire GOP membership of the North Carolina US House delegation (except Walter Jones)  had endorsed Phil Berger, Jr. and had raised

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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