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#NCSEN 2014: GOP field about to become a threesome?

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Brant Clifton

It is looking more and more like Charlotte pastor Mark Harris is about to join Cary physician Greg Brannon and state House Speaker Thom Tillis in the May 2014 GOP

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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After Supreme Court rulings, all eyes are on Roy Cooper and Amendment One

Posted on June 27, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Well, the US Supreme Court has stripped key provisions out of the federal Defense of Marriage Act — which kept the feds from paying benefits to “married” gay couples.  The

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campaign 2014, Law & Order, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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Continuing Resolution: Leadership #FAIL for GOP in Raleigh

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Brant Clifton

The NCGOP has supermajorities in both chambers of the General Assembly.  The Democrats can’t stop a thing.  (They’re all out in the lobby getting ziptied with Bill Barber.)  The NCGOP

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Phil Berger, Politics, Thom Tillis

DPI’s Atkinson: teacher pay turning teachers off to NC. (Your beloved common core isn’t helping much.)

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Brant Clifton

June Atkinson (D), our state’s superintendent of public instruction, is turning to that old saw that proves to be a winner for politicians again and again:  Teachers need to be

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Education, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, Politics
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Watch your wallet: Obama ready to ‘sock’ it to climate change (Kay Hagan is READY to help.)

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Brant Clifton

          Big Barry gave a speech today laying out his plans to harpoon that lefty white whale known as climate change: The core problem with President

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, Politics

#FREEDANACOPE from the #NCMedia gulag

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      We don’t see eye-to-eye with SEANC / SEIU head honcho Dana Cope on much, but we agree wholeheartedly with his assessment of the #MoralMondays lunacy at the

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campaign 2014, Economy, Media, NC legislature, Politics

Meck Co. Commish: Next county manager SHOULD BE ‘a non-white male’

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Brant Clifton

        The vice-chairman of the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners is taking some heat for recent comments to a Charlotte TV station.  Kim Ratliff, a Democrat member

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Media, Politics
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McClatchy Rob says HE’S FINE. (But WE’RE all crazy.)

Posted on June 23, 2013June 24, 2013 by Brant Clifton

          Rob “Mr. Politics” Christensen says North Carolina politics has gone from “polarized to paranoid.”   The guy who was the first — and I think

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campaign 2014, Media, Politics

A pompous lefty academic lectures Gov. Pat (and the rest of us)

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Here in Moore County, the owners of our local thrice twice-weekly Peabody Award-winning, hallucination-inducing newspaper are the same bunch who perfected the concept of lefty media bias over decades at

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Media, Politics
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All rise. “Environmental Court” is now in session.

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      I’ve just been made aware of the existence of an “environmental court” in Cumberland County.  This “court” — presided over by an actual Superior Court judge —

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campaign 2014, Law & Order, NC State Government, Politics
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