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Pinehurst: A shakedown of builders by village staff?

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      A long-time village government policy has some area developers — along with at least two members of The Village Council — crying foul: The Pinehurst Village Council

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Media, Moore County, Politics
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Common Core: Dr. June, DPI centralizing & expanding collection of student data

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    While North Carolina’s mainstream media was on its extended Labor Day vacation, The Heartland Institute decided to pick up the slack and do a little reporting about what’s

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Education, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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A lively evening in Pinehurst with Renee

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Brant Clifton

On paper, the idea of a Republican politician holding a town hall in the heart of Pinehurst looks pretty good.  Pinehurst is in the heart of Moore County — one

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WHY NOT treat ObamaCare like abortion?

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    The Hyde Amendment has been a valuable tool in the fight against government-funding of abortion: In U.S. politics, the Hyde Amendment is a legislative provision barring the use

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Ellmers: Heritage Action = Hypocrites

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Brant Clifton

        Second District  congresswoman Renee Ellmers hosted a town hall meeting in Pinehurst Tuesday night.  And, of course, we were there with a camera rolling. During the

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Renee Ellmers, Republicans
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Free speech in its death throes in Chapel Hill

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Brant Clifton

I worked on Capitol Hill for the late Senator Jesse Helms during his early-90s campaign to defund The National Endowment For The Arts.  Leftists lashed out at him claiming that

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Education, Law & Order, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics, Uncategorized
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NC State Elections Board fumbles on the 1-yd line re: Pasquotank

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Brant Clifton

I have to award the state elections board a split decision on their Watauga and Pasquotank county rulings yesterday.  A leftist mob showed up — in full intimidation mode —

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Law & Order, Media, NC State Government, Politics
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ObamaCare: It’s getting WORSE

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  There’s a great piece over at Forbes talking about how The White House is considering expanding the subsidies in ObamaCare to include not just the uninsured but ALSO UNION

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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While public school teachers “starve,” central office administrators FEAST

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Brant Clifton

We’ve heard ad nauseum from Bill Barber, his rabble, their mainstream media comrades, and the educrats about the “starving” of public education.  Our public schools superintendent, here in Moore County, 

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Economy, Media, Moore County, NC legislature, Politics
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About those vetoes …

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Brant Clifton

The mainstream media is having a field day setting up the narrative for this special session of the legislature: Republican legislators who helped elect our rookie Republican governor are in

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics

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