The Daily Haymaker

#NCSEN: Apparently, what was BAD for Liddy Dole is O-KAY for Kay

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Democrats in DC and in Raleigh are working overtime to pull Senator Sock Puppet’s chestnuts out of the fire. They’ve put out this spin about Kay Hagan being one of

#NCSEN: If you pay him, he will come.

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

State House speaker and US Senate candidate Thom Tillis has been catching some flak from GOP activists — and finally from the mainstream media — for skipping out on candidate

NC-02: Ellmers STILL campaigning on the taxpayer dime

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

On the last day of January, we told you about congresswoman Renee Ellmers’ taxpayer-funded constituent mailings that bear a striking resemblance to campaign literature — stuff that is not supposed

O-Care: Lefties run damage control on Barry & Kay’s job-killing pet monster

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Congressional Budget Office — long the target of much love and affection by liberals and mainstream media types — is now feeling their wrath. The CBO dared to publish

#NCSEN: Brannon vs. Tillis. FreedomWorks vs. Rove. Game ON!

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Brant Clifton

FreedomWorks — arguably One of the biggest dogs in grassroots Tea Party politics — stepped forward Tuesday night in Raleigh to put its stamp of approval on the US Senate

#NCSEN: Theaming up with Thom, and Piling On

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Brant Clifton

If you want a good case study for why newspapers — especially those in Guilford County — are failing, check out Doug Clark’s nonsense in the pages of The Greensboro

JuneA @ NC DPI: Poorly-performing students repeating a grade ‘a 20th-century artifact’

Posted on February 3, 2014February 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I am starting to believe that the plastic surgeons have stretched June Atkinson’s face so tight that it is putting pressure on her brain and degrading her motor skills. The

#NCSEN: FreedomWorks + Greg Brannon = Game changer

Posted on February 3, 2014February 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Tea Party groups across the state and the Brannon for US Senate campaign are quietly lining up supporters to attend a “FreedomWorks BBQ” in Raleigh on Tuesday evening. Sources familiar

#SCSEN: ANOTHER censure for Lindsey Graham?

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Boy, the problems keep mounting for South Carolina’s senior US senator. He’s got four primary opponents. He’s been censured by at least half a dozen county GOP organizations (including the

#NCSEN: Morrill’s lazy reporting gives Tillis a pass

Posted on February 2, 2014February 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I had been waiting to see what the Charlotte Observer / McClatchy’s Jim Morrill was coming out with. I have known — for at least a week — that he