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SPECIAL DELIVERY: June needed paper. Dan gave her some paper.

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

  Well, that didn’t take long. Lt Gov. Dan Forest sent DPI Secretary June Atkinson roughly 20 pages worth of questions about the controversial Common Core curriculum.    Did Lt. Dan

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Education, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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FreedomWorks joins forces with Dan Forest in fight against Common Core

Posted on July 20, 2013 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina Lt. Governor Dan Forest has already made it clear that he doesn’t care for the controversial Common Core curriculum for the nation’s public schools.  State government’s second-in-command is

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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US Senate 2014: Is the honeymoon OVER for Mark Harris and the Tea Party?

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

  Well, that was  quick. In late June, the Draft Mark Harris committee was touting the hiring of Tracy Bengtson — a Mecklenburg County grassroots activist who was a key

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Kay Hagan: “leading” from, um, … OUTSIDE THE ROOM?

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Brant Clifton

The mainstream media has been helping US Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) tout legislation she co-sponsored with fellow Democrat Jack Reed (D-RI) to freeze interest rates on student loans.  A pro-union

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media

Thanks to McClatchy, Rural Center biting the dust. (But why stop there?)

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Brant Clifton

It sounds odd to hear me praising McClatchy, but they’ve done some bang-up work pointing out the waste in the NC Rural Center and making a case for its closure.

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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Legislative business? Forget that. I’ve got a Senate campaign to run!

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  It looks like my prediction that running for the US Senate would shove leadership of the state House into a distant second place is panning out. House Speaker Thom

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, NCGOP
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Liz Cheney in Wyoming: A textbook case on Shaking Up The Ruling Class

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  The GOP establishment is having a conniption over the audacity of Liz Cheney — daughter of the former VPOTUS — daring to challenge the renomination of a sitting GOP

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media
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Key pundit: Path to GOP majority in US Senate runs through Tar Heel State

Posted on July 18, 2013July 18, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    New York Times blogger Nate Silver has been pretty doggone prescient in recent years with his election prognostications.  He has an interesting observation regarding the 2014 battle for

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, NCGOP

For Senate GOP, surrender IS apparently an option

Posted on July 17, 2013July 18, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    We’ve been hearing all about “a grand compromise” in the US Senate over filibusters and votes over Obama administration nominees.  Let’s review the details of the “compromise”: Harry

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Congress, Media, Politics, Republicans
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Tuesday-morning quarterback: The tax “deal” in Raleigh

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

      Well, Civitas has signed off on it: “The tax reform plan will cut personal taxes and simplify taxes for every North Carolinian who works,” said Civitas President

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Economy, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics, Thom Tillis
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