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Renee Ellmers annoyed by “outside conservative groups”

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  I see that Miss Harnett County has horned her way in as a speaker at Civitas’s Conservative Leadership Conference.  There’s also a lot of talk — likely started by

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Congress, Media, Politics
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Sequesteria: It’s the end of the world as we know it (AND I FEEL FINE)

Posted on February 28, 2013February 28, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    The other day, Walter Jones, Jr. was babbling about Dick Cheney roasting in hell.  My nominees for that particular “honor” are the members of the news media and

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Mayor Foxx to Charlotte taxpayers: BOHICA !!!

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Brant Clifton

        Charlotte mayor Redd Foxx appears to be hard at work stomping out any chances of an economic recovery in The Queen City.  He and his cronies

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Walter Jones is getting rather tiresome

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  Walter Jones, Jr.  has got quite a cult following.  The folks who read “Mother Jones”  AND The Ron Paul fan club are both swooning over him.  Considering the diametric

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Club For Growth: Renee has GOTTA GO !!!

Posted on February 28, 2013February 28, 2013 by Brant Clifton

        “It’s Not what they say, it’s what they do.”  THAT is the slogan that hits you first when you call up The Club For Growth’s home

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More, um, “fan mail” from the Planet Mars …

Posted on February 27, 2013February 27, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      When you speak your mind in a public forum, you tend to hear from from all kinds of people — out in left field, right field, and

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Media, Moore County

Is the BlueprintNC brouhaha REALLY all that big of a deal?

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    It’s been fun watching all of the sputtering and posturing about the strategy memo reportedly circulated by the leadership of a lefty group calling itself BluePrintNC.   The

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Being a politician AND keeping your stories straight IS HARD!

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  Renee Ellmers is a busy lady these days — riding around in John Boehner’s back pocket, getting all of those promotions, and all.  She’s being mentioned as a potential

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Congress, Media, Moore County, Politics
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Gov. Pat, a conservative? (Cue the video)

Posted on February 24, 2013February 24, 2013 by Brant Clifton

A  loyal reader of this site forwarded me a recently-published piece in National Review by John Hood, president of the Raleigh-based John Locke Foundation.    Hood’s piece, about conservatism “thriving”

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Those Congress rankings and the distortion of the term “conservative”

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Brant Clifton

        Well, every year groups from the ADA to the ACU to National Journal to The Club For Growth release ideological rankings of the 535 voting members

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