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BOHICA Alert: Cost projections show new toll roads to be LITERAL highway robbery

Posted on June 11, 2014June 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Thom Tillis, Skip Stam, and the McCrory administration have all been singing the praises of HOT lanes and tolls as THE BEST way to pay for future road construction and

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campaign 2014, Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, Politics, Tea Party, Thom Tillis
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VA-07: Damn. What was that? An earthquake?

Posted on June 11, 2014June 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The seismometers were going wild around Richmond, Virginia tonight.  A political earthquake appears to have catapulted the House Majority Leader into those very crowded unemployment lines: In a stunning upset,

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Congress, Media
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#NCSEN: A Klingon tries to make it a Five-some

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been hearing about efforts to get former state legislator John Rhodes qualified as a write-in candidate.  Now, it appears a Klingon-speaking former town councilman from Indian Trail is trying

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCSEN: Conservative write-in effort kicks into gear

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Brant Clifton

If all goes as one group of activists hopes, North Carolinians will have a FOURTH choice for US Senate this November.  Democrat Kay Hagan, Republican Thom Tillis, and Libertarian Sean

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCSEN: Let’s play The Blame Game. The pizza man, the baby doc, or the web site?

Posted on June 8, 2014June 8, 2014 by Brant Clifton

During the recently completed primary, we were told that Thom Tillis is on cruise-control to Capitol Hill. Kay Hagan needs to start packing.  Miss Susan can start measuring for drapes.

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Congress, Media
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# NCGA & the tax shell game: cap THIS tax, then intro a NEW one

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Brant Clifton

A couple of weeks ago, the frontline soldiers of Raleigh’s conservative revolution were targeting privilege taxes — tagging them as harmful to the economy.  Now, we have the “honorables” on

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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Bergdahl: Did Obama PAY $$$ for his release?

Posted on June 7, 2014June 7, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The exchange of FIVE Taliban fighters for ONE US soldier (reportedly a deserter) is one hot topic of discussion these days.  Folks in both parties all over Capitol Hill are

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Congress, Media
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The TSA: harassing grandmas, nuns, and babies since 2001

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Hijackings and other mid-air craziness have turned flying into way too much of an adventure.  The horror of 9/11 added a whole new dimension.  Fanatics were willing to take over

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Congress, Media
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#NCGA: From BAD to WORSE on film incentives

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Brant Clifton

There has been a steady drumbeat over the years to end the strategy of subsidies and tax incentives in economic development.  Critics suggest — rightly so — that states will

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#NCGOP: Convention pre-game show

Posted on June 6, 2014June 6, 2014 by Brant Clifton

State Republicans are headed off to the furthest western regions of our state this weekend to hold their convention and plot a course for the next year. Observers are worried

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Tea Party
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