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GOP hasn’t learned ONE THING from Cantor primary loss

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Brant Clifton

House Majority leader Eric Cantor spent years running around the  country meddling in other people’s primaries.  He cheerleaded for more spending and more debt, poo-pooed the repeal of ObamaCare, and promoted amnesty

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Tea Party
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Coming Soon To A Theater Near You: THE BIG ‘DOUBLE-CROSS’

Posted on June 12, 2014June 12, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Wilmington-area legislators and movie industry types are pretty mad.  It looks like incentives for the film industry are not going to survive the state House.   These folks REALLY thought they

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NC legislature, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCGA: The tug-of-war over the SBI

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Brant Clifton

A move is afoot on Jones Street to consolidate state law enforcement in the executive branch.  In many states, you have one centralized state police force.  In North Carolina, it

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campaign 2014, Law & Order, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, Politics
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RobRielle, N&O joining MSNBC on road to irrelevance

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Just when you think he can’t deliver a bigger face-palm moment, the reporter  who: (1) made history by being physically removed from an NCGOP convention, (2) failed to notice Dennis

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campaign 2014, McClatchy, Media, Politics
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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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