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#NCSEN: Giving Kay a helping hand

Posted on January 21, 2014January 21, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Yep.  You read that right.  You can just imagine that –when you’re scurrying all over the nation scooping up special interest money — it can be a challenge to find

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, Politics
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Memo to The Round Rev: It takes ONE to know ONE

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Brant Clifton

”[…] And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have

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campaign 2014, Media, Politics, South Carolina, Tea Party
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Public Schools: Starving? (Hardly.)

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Teacher pay and other education spending are supposed to dominate the upcoming short session at the General Assembly.  For months, we’ve been pounded by stories like this one – mainly

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Feeding the beast: Amazon to start collecting state taxes from NC customers

Posted on January 20, 2014January 20, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Open up your wallets, folks.  It’s official.  The North Carolina Department of Revenue will start getting a cut of your purchases from Amazon.com starting February 1. It’s not entirely clear

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, Politics
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#NCSEN: Wrong on the money

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Carter Wrenn — Richard Morgan’s pre-weight loss doppelganger — has surfaced like Captain Ahab’s white whale to do a wee bit of the GOP establishment’s dirty work in a post

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campaign 2014, Congress, Greg Brannon, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Omnibus? More like Omni-BUST!

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I went back in the Google time machine and found some comments from GOP leaders shortly after the Tea Party put them back in charge of the US House of

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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The NC State Bar: Keeping lawyers liberal

Posted on January 17, 2014January 17, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Every day I come across more evidence that we have too frickin’ many lawyers gracing the surface of our beautiful planet and using up valuable oxygen. Take our state’s top

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Law & Order, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP
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The ObamaCare “study”: stoves are hot, ice is cold, socialism is BAD

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Setting up a commission or a committee to “study” an issue is a great way for politicians to show they “care” –without actually doing anything substantive. “Fast and Furious,” anyone?

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campaign 2014, Economy, Media, NCGOP, ObamaCare, Phil Berger, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Rocky Mount “racism” update

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We told you the other day about the outrageous behavior of the Rocky Mount City Council.  Well, the good folks at Civitas have offered up the details that led to

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McCrory: Common Core fan Jim Hunt a mentor, hero, adviser

Posted on January 16, 2014January 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Governor Pat McCrory unveiled his education agenda yesterday, and opponents of the common core curriculum can’t be happy with what they heard: McCrory previewed his legislative agenda in a speech

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campaign 2014, Education, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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