The Daily Haymaker

#NCSEN: Are Dems giving Thom Tillis the “Todd Akin Treatment”?

Posted on December 6, 2013December 6, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Until now, it’s been easy to draw comparisons between the 2014 US Senate GOP primary in North Carolina and the 2010 Kentucky GOP Senate primary, featuring a

Teacher turnover totals TRICKERY

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Brant Clifton

It appears something sneaky may be going on at NC DPI and the state board of education with this teacher turnover report. The sycophant mainstream media in our state has

Editorializing-under-the-influence: Homeschooling begats child abuse ???

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Brant Clifton

You can always count on the editorial page of our local Arab Journalism Award-winning thrice, um, twice-weekly local paper here in Moore County to

THREE STRIKES: Wake County schools aspire to be like NYC

Posted on December 3, 2013December 3, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Three strikes and you’re out. That’s been the rule of thumb in the game of baseball. It’s been the law in a lot of states’ judicial systems.

#NCSEN: Flynn, Grant taking the low budget route

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Brant Clifton

GOP US Senate candidates Heather Grant and Bill Flynn need to step it up if they want to have enough money on hand to pay the filing

#NCSEN: Baptist Church, Harris campaign intersect. (NO Robin Hayes money?)

Posted on December 3, 2013December 3, 2013 by Brant Clifton

We took a look at Thom Tillis’s money in a previous post. Now, let’s look at the financial doings of Charlotte pastor-turned-candidate Mark Harris. (Click graphic

#NCSEN: DC GOP establishment going $$$ ALL IN $$$ for Theam Tilli$

Posted on December 2, 2013December 2, 2013 by Brant Clifton

House Speaker — and US Senate candidate — Thom Tillis and his team are bending over backwards to avoid the “establishment” label, but a cursory examination of Tillis campaign records

#NCSEN : Put A Cork In It.

Posted on December 1, 2013December 1, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Lefties have been giving me grief for personifying our junior US senator as a sock with ping-pong ball eyes and string for hair. I wonder what they would say about

#NCGA: Tale of the Tesla

Posted on November 30, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Between turkey-induced food comas this long weekend, I did a little reading. THIS Bloomberg piece — about the PR successes of the automaker Tesla — caught my

Remind me AGAIN how all of this is supposed to benefit the consumer …

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Kay Hagan, Harry Reid and Barry Obama all sold us on how great this ObamaCare stuff was going to be. We could stay with our doctor if we like him