The Daily Haymaker

More judge stuff ….

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Brant Clifton

An eagle-eyed reader raised an important point. The Doran-Levinson-Hudson race for NC Supreme Court will only allow you to vote for ONE of the three. Since that is the case,

#NCSEN: The shih-tzu drops a deuce on Thom’s thax thrickery

Posted on April 26, 2014April 27, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Every so often John Drescher’s pet shih-tzu surprises me. The young man occasionally breaks free from RobRielle’s mind meld and does some honest-to-goodness political reporting. Speaker Thom and his diminutive

Now, about those judges ….

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve got some big races coming up for the state Supreme Court. Lefties, locked out of the legislature and the governor’s office, see the court races as their best hope

Rand & Orwell looking prophetic: Dare to Question Authority, and Big Govt Lashes Out

Posted on April 25, 2014April 25, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Dinesh D’Souza produced a great documentary about the life of Barry Obama. For doing the work the drive-by media should have done in 2008, D’Souza got hit with public leaks

Boehner, Ellmers mock and show disdain for amnesty opponents

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Speaker John Boehner, who Renee Ellmers says is her ”boss”, went back to his Cincinatti-area district to call out Tea Partiers and other amnesty opponents on The Hill and around

Two Worth Keeping: Jones and Meadows

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Brant Clifton

NC-03’s Walter Jones has been around a long time — marching to the beat of a different drummer. He was a right-leaning Democrat in the state legislature. As a Republican

Our recommendations for US House

Posted on April 24, 2014April 24, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Early voting is underway. We’ve got a GOP leadership in Washington looking to sell us out on amnesty and ObamaCare. In Raleigh, we have a state party leadership reportedly looking

#NCSEN: Did planted debate questioner backfire on Tillis?

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Brant Clifton

There is a pretty interesting video floating around cyberspace. It highlights Nathan West, one of the questioners at the Time Warner Cable US Senate debate, and his gun control question.

#NCSEN: Look at Meeeeee! I’m David Crabtreeeeeeeeee !!!

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I wanted to find something nice to say about what WRAL did with this election broadcast. Really. First, the format was much better than last night. WRAL deserves kudos for

#NCSEN: 2nd amendment in the crosshairs

Posted on April 23, 2014April 23, 2014 by Brant Clifton

One of the few flashpoints in last night’s GOP candidate’s forum came when the discussion turned to gun rights. The drive-by questioners, of course, took the lefty route by alluding