The Daily Haymaker

#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

#NCSEN: Bought and Paid For?

Posted on February 1, 2014February 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The mainstream media could do the right thing and cover the upcoming Senate contest in terms of the issues. Inform the voters, keep their readers / viewers up to date

NC-02: Ellmers moves put amnesty for illegal aliens at the center of her primary fight

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Renee Ellmers has been proud of her ties to House leadership. She once slipped up — I think — in a conversation with me, referring to House Speaker John Boehner

#NCSEN: The shih-tzu and his friends drop a deuce on the GOP field

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

N&O executive editor John Drescher must be beaming with pride at the work of his lapdog, John “the shih-tzu” Frank. That young man sure has assimilated well into the left-wing

Burr disses Ted Cruz’s O-Care defund effort, intros basically O-Care Lite

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Back when Texas senator Ted Cruz was single-handedly spearheading the effort to defund ObamaCare, Richard Burr was dismissing it as “the dumbest idea” he’d ever heard of. We took a

NC-02: Getting franked by Renee Ellmers

Posted on January 31, 2014January 31, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The GOP primary challengers in congressional districts 2 and 3 were in The N&O today bashing the GOP incumbents for allegedly using their congressional franking (AKA free mailing) privileges for