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Are Bill Barber & The NCDP writing N&O headlines, now?

Posted on May 30, 2014May 30, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Hmmm.  Misleading information in the N&O.  I know, I know.  What else is new?  But today’s edition really takes the cake.  The headline on the lead story this morning on

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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Even politicians get shaken down

Posted on May 30, 2014May 30, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Ever wonder why so few elected officials question the actions of their party leaders or the actions of their respective chambers? Ever wonder why politicians spend SO MUCH time fundraising?

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#NCGA: Even MORE surrender on taxes?

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Brant Clifton

This week the Republican majority on Jones Street slapped an excise tax on the sale of e-cigarettes.  (That’s ON TOP of the sales tax already collected.)  In the Senate, the

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCSEN: A conservative write-in campaign?

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Brant Clifton

In 2006, Thom Tillis ousted fellow Republican and incumbent John Rhodes in a nasty primary fight for a Mecklenburg County state House seat.  In 2014, Rhodes COULD end up making

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Tea Party, Thom Tillis
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#NCSEN: A sock puppet fight over climate change

Posted on May 28, 2014May 28, 2014 by Brant Clifton

US Senator Kay Hagan (D- NC  NY) — affectionately known in many of these parts as Chuck Schumer’s Sock Puppet™– lashed out at GOP nominee Thom Tillis — recently promoted to

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Kay Hagan, Media, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCGA: Skip Stam endorses toll roads

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Brant Clifton

State House speaker Pro Tem Skip Stam has posted an endorsement of toll roads on his official site — which still IDs him as the “North Carolina House Republican Leader”.

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campaign 2014, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Paul Stam, Politics
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#NCGA: House GOP’s anti-tax cred up in smoke with e-cigarette vote

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Brant Clifton

There was a time when the GOP was recognized as the group who would cut your taxes, shrink government, and back the bureaucracy off of your case.  Well, it’s funny

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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Strach: state elections board gets investigation help. Hartsell probe STILL pending.

Posted on May 27, 2014May 27, 2014 by Brant Clifton

It appears the NC State Board of Elections is getting some investigative assistance. It’s a good thing: they’ve got a quarter million pending cases that need to be worked.  State

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campaign 2014, Law & Order, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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The VA: a big-govt spawned travesty, not a partisan political scandal

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Brant Clifton

 The Department of Veterans Affairs — formerly the Veterans Administration — started out with a noble mission:  Taking care of those who sacrificed for our country. It has become what

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Congress, Media
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Edu-crats keep pumping out skulls-of-mush. Woe unto our state and nation.

Posted on May 26, 2014 by Brant Clifton

It’s graduation season.  Public and private schools across the country are turning out freshly-indoctrinated young people into the workforce.  I had the chance to encounter one of these young people

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