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Beaufort county commissioner has choice words for NCGOP and Chairman Pope

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      County commissioners Stan Deatherage and Hood Richardson have fought a lot of good fights for the GOP in Beaufort County.  They’ve locked horns with the Basnight machine

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Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Rush tries to stiffen the spines of Burr & co. on ObamaCare fight

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  Senator Richard Burr and other members of the GOP establishment are telling us its useless to fight the implementation of ObamaCare because Barry Obama is president, and his friends

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics
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Well, lookee here: AFL-CIO hyping Bill Barber’s carnival sideshow

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    McClatchy and WRAL try oh-so-hard to convince us that Moral Monday is an honest-to-God grassroots uprising.  *Folks are standing up against the state’s slide into fascist totalitarianism.* Yet,

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, Politics
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Ellmers, Foxx, Hudson vote with Boehner (and a bunch of Dems) to preserve NSA surveillance overreach

Posted on July 28, 2013July 28, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      I’m a big fan of empowering law enforcement and the military to hunt down and destroy foreign bad guys trying to do harm to innocent  Americans.  I’m

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Leaked email, UNC BOG nominations cause problems for NCGOP, bumps in the road for Senator-in-Waiting

Posted on July 27, 2013July 27, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      For years, the UNC Board of Governors has been known as a popular destination for political cronies seeking patronage payoffs.   Though, recent scandals within the university

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campaign 2014, Congress, Education, Kay Hagan, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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WHAT education cuts?

Posted on July 27, 2013July 27, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Bill Barber’s cheering section / steno pool at McClatchy and WRAL have been bombarding us with stories about draconian spending cuts to education rammed through the GOP-dominated General Assembly.  *Kids

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Economy, Education, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, Politics
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Greg Brannon: BOTH of NC’s senators need to join the fight to defund ObamaCare

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Polling shows two-thirds to three-quarters of North Carolinians expressing serious dissatisfaction with ObamaCare.  The North Carolina General Assembly has voted to refuse federal money earmarked for funding health insurance exchanges

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Kay Hagan, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Another Moral Monday, MORE media malpractice

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Brant Clifton

McClatchy-Raleigh breathlessly reported on the addition of “youth speakers” to Bill Barber’s weekly freak show on the Halifax Mall.  The leader of the youth speakers, quoted by McClatchy, was a

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Media, Politics
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Good riddance to straight-ticket voting

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Brant Clifton

The NC General Assembly is moving to accomplish something long overdue — killing off straight-ticket voting.    North Carolina has been ONE of only 15 states to allow straight-ticket voting.

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Economy, Law & Order, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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Burr: Resistance to ObamaCare implementation is “the dumbest idea”

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Brant Clifton

From 1972 to 2002, North Carolina was represented in the US Senate by one of the nation’s most preeminent conservatives. Since 2004, we’ve been stuck with Richard Burr — a

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Republicans
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