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Kay Hagan, pro-business? SURE. (And I’m Bill Barber’s homey.)

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Brant Clifton

        McClatchy is carrying on with their effort to save US Senator Kay Hagan — affectionately known around these parts as Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) sock puppet —

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Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, Politics
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Drive-by state-run media, Dems bemoan “erosion of local control.” (Seriously. No foolin’.)

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      Yes, I had to do a double-take this morning after reading the lastest spin coming out of state-run media.  Granted, the newly-empowered GOP has not done the

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Congress, Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics

US Senate 2014: Will she STAY or will she GO?

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      We got treated today  to YET another trial balloon from Renee Ellmers today about a possible run against incumbent Democrat senator Kay Hagan in November 2014. She

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Congress, Media, Moore County, Politics, Renee Ellmers, Republicans

MSNBC host to Renee Ellmers: “You and I are absolutely on the same page here.”

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  Wow.  That’s something you really don’t want to hear in reference to your REPUBLICAN Member of the US House.  The representative for North Carolina’s 2nd  U.S. House district was

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Congress, Media, Politics, Renee Ellmers, Republicans
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McClatchy crayonista fawns over “Big Boy” Barber’s performance art at NCGA

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Brant Clifton

            Attention Tea Partiers: McClatchy’s crayon corps says the aging former hippies, now suckling at the government teat from their tenured university positions, screaming and

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics

Is the heavy hand of Thom Tillis reaching into Cabarrus County politics?

Posted on May 10, 2013May 10, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      Think back to 2006 with me.  We had a conservative firebrand GOP legislator, representing a district near Charlotte,  who was making headlines by criticizing the leadership of

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Stupid mainstream media: Local crime stories trump murder, mayhem, failure of leadership in Benghazi

Posted on May 9, 2013May 9, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    We’re getting earth-shattering, heart-breaking, and sometimes infuriating details about the travesties that occurred at our embassy in Benghazi, Libya last year.  Our embassy — sovereign US territory —

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Phil Berger, Senate filet the state tax code, while Thom Tillis triangulates

Posted on May 9, 2013May 9, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    Bill Clinton staged an incredible comeback in 1996, following the HillaryCare fiasco, by practicing triangulation — positioning himself somewhere between the liberalism of his fellow Democrats and the

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, Phil Berger, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Burr gives Hagan cover on Internet sales tax

Posted on May 9, 2013May 9, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      I am sure the GOP game plan against Kay Hagan for 2014 is to attack her for being a liberal extremist.  But HOW do you do that

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The disappearance of Dan Forest

Posted on May 5, 2013May 5, 2013 by Brant Clifton

The 2012 election cycle didn’t offer a lot for Tea Partiers to get excited about.  One candidate we could embrace was a tough-talking, passionate architect-turned-amateur-politician from Raleigh named Dan Forest.

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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