The Daily Haymaker

Focus on tax returns, Islam video distract from Left’s failures

Posted on September 23, 2012September 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I’ve seen and heard WAY too much lately about Mitt Romney’s tax returns. The Obama sycophants at the AP slobbered all over the Romney documents, pointing out — from the

District Court race features a super PAC, bare-knuckled rhetoric and verbal combat

Posted on September 23, 2012September 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Judicial races in North Carolina tend to be quiet, gentlemanly affairs that occur below the radar. Not this year. Not in our neck of the woods. Randolph County

“Freedom of Expression” for ME, but not for THEE

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Lefties often do amazing things with the U.S. Constitution. Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable, warrantless search and seizures by government officials were twisted to create a “right to abortion.” First

“MANY SEE” The Pilot as little more than a mouthpiece for Democrat & leftist interests

Posted on September 21, 2012September 21, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It always irks me to see allegedly unbiased mainstream media types employ the terms “some say” or “many say” “or “some see” or “many see” in their reporting. “Many see

NC Dems: confused on Mayor Pat, and creating MORE unemployment (Also, a BREAK for NCGOP on l’affaire LaRoque and Barry & Mitt ON TAPE!)

Posted on September 21, 2012May 19, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Fasten your seat belts, folks! We’ve got one heck of an action-packed post here. Jay Parmley, the former executive director of the NC Democratic Party who helped bring discussions

Did Boehner lower the boom on Ellmers?

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Washington is buzzing about a bit of theater on the US House floor recently, involving a group of Members that included The Second District’s Renee

The Council of State: A veritable rogues gallery

Posted on September 19, 2012September 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

For those of us beside ourselves with the wretched excesses, arrogance and corruption in state government and seeking some way to vent our frustration / anger, the November elections for

NCGOV-wannabes talk about JOBS

Posted on September 19, 2012September 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We’ve talked about A LOT of stuff in the 2012 race for governor of North Carolina. We’ve heard a lot about Pat McCrory’s tax returns. We’ve been treated

Moore County Tea Partiers get in Robin Hayes’s face

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Dee Park, president of Moore Tea Citizens, tried to pull off a stunt on Sept. 10 akin to a permanent peace agreement between cats and dogs. She brought in North

GOP-controlled US House AGAIN kicks the debt can down the road

Posted on September 16, 2012September 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The GOP-led US House, this week, passed ANOTHER short term funding measure for the federal government: Several freshmen Republicans in the House of Representatives who came