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#NCSEN: El Sr. Tillis quiere amnistía ahora

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      It looks as if some big donors are calling in some chits with the Tillis for Senate campaign.  Speaker Thom appeared before the NC Farm Bureau Monday to urge

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Murray-Ryan budget deal: selling us a bill of goods

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Brant Clifton

We’ve got 535 voting members of Congress. Yet. this “bi-partisan”, “disaster-averting” budget deal announced yesterday got hammered out in private talks between Senate Budget Committee chairman Patty Murray and House

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics

#NCSEN Brannon says: Stop hijacking the term ‘conservative’

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

          Cary physician Greg Brannon, Tea Party favorite and one of the leading contenders for the GOP nomination for US Senate, told a Moore County audience

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campaign 2014, Congress, Greg Brannon, Media, Moore County, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Tea Party, Thom Tillis
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#SCSEN Lindsey Graham: O-Care? “That’s FINE.”

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

        I had a chance last night to talk with one of the more polished, impressive Tea Party leaders I’ve encountered yet — Larry Nordvig, executive director

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics, Republicans, South Carolina, Tea Party
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#NCSEN: Speaker Thom & Lobbyist LOVE

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

      Some time back, we wrote about the high levels of affection Thom Tillis’ legislative staff was showing some Jones Street lobbyists.  Now, it appears some lobbyists are

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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McClatchy: Three greatest political figures mostly lefties, ALL FOREIGNERS

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      Rob Christensen — a/k/a “Mr Politics” or simply “McClatchy Rob” — offered his readers this weekend a history lesson that would move ANY common core-loving educrat to

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Media, Politics
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A unifying — and winning — theme for the GOP? Self-regulation.

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Brant Clifton

The left does a great job of spinning their agenda as one of freedom.  The freedom to love whoever you want to love. Freedom of choice about your own body.

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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The folly of accepting the lefty narrative

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Brant Clifton

On a daily basis, I try to wrap my head around the “logic” being employed by the GOP establishment in Raleigh and DC.  The media and its leftist allies tell

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Media, Moore County, NC legislature, NCGOP, Obama, Palin, Politics, Renee Ellmers, Tea Party
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Educrats say the darndest things ….

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Brant Clifton

        When you’ve spent 40 years inside the state bureaucracy, it’s understandable that your world-view might be a little disjointed. DPI secretary June Atkinson never ceases to

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campaign 2014, Education, Media, NC State Government, Politics
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*Surprise, Surprise!* Robert Brawley gets primaried.

Posted on December 7, 2013December 7, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Moore County’s Richard Morgan set the standard for hard-nosed vindictive political tactics during his tenure in the NC House.  If a legislator dared to “cross” him, Morgan would personally seek

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campaign 2014, Congress, McClatchy, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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