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GOPers seeking US Senate nod making personnel moves

Posted on September 20, 2013September 20, 2013 by Brant Clifton

House speaker Thom Tillis has added Kim Canady to his campaign team.  Until recently, Canady was the NCGOP’s political director who played a leading role in intra-party controversies in Craven,

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campaign 2014, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Virginia Foxx? “Brainwashed.” Richard Burr? Still “dumb.” Ellmers? Whatever John & Eric Want

Posted on September 20, 2013September 20, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Just like Bono & U2 — I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.  An elected conservative leader from North Carolina, that is.  I’ve been getting whiplash keeping track of

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics
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Counting is HARD.

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  McClatchy-Raleigh treated us to this fair & balanced headline today: Protestors cry shame on NC’s hands-off policy on new health law.   I see there are no quotes around any

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Media, Politics
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Randolph County book ban brouhaha sheds light on leftist indoctrination in public education

Posted on September 19, 2013September 19, 2013 by Brant Clifton

McClatchy and their comrades are up in arms about the Randolph County school board daring to exert some sort of local control over public education.  Heck. Even Russian TV and

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Education, Media, NC State Government, Politics
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McClatchy now doing HR work for DHHS?

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Brant Clifton

I’m generally not one to argue with scrutinizing the government bureaucracy.  However, it DOES tick me off when our lazy, shiftless legacy media monopoly runs all of these “horror stories”

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campaign 2014, Media, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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Senate 2014: Has Burr signed on to Theam Tillis?

Posted on September 17, 2013September 17, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  Boy, this establishment crowd is starting to make us look quite  prescient. Speaker senator (spenator?) Thom Tillis has hired consultant Paul Shumaker to run his campaign for the 2014

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Mark Harris: Is He A Todd Akin-in-the-makin’ ?

Posted on September 15, 2013September 18, 2013 by Brant Clifton

By now,  politics-watchers are well familiar with the story of Todd Akin, the GOP challenger to Missouri senator Claire McCaskill (D) in 2012.  Akin was a solidly conservative member of

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Piling on Dr. Wos

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Make no mistake — we are NOT exactly “fans” of the welfare state here.  In our opinion, the NC Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) could collapse into a

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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In Pinehurst, the shakedown apparently lives on

Posted on September 13, 2013September 13, 2013 by Brant Clifton

I’ve been hit with a lot of background spin about how the days of the Pinehurst Village Council delegating everything to the bureaucrats and rubber-stamping whatever the bureaucrats at Village

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Media, Moore County, Politics
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Moore media’s hard sell of “Moral Monday”

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Brant Clifton

We’ve got a unique situation here in Moore County.  We are one of the most reliably Republican counties in the state.  Yet, our only local paper is owned and operated

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Moore County, Politics
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