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What’s that giant sucking sound? The public school bureaucracy and the sycophant media

Posted on May 18, 2013May 18, 2013 by Brant Clifton

We’re really lucky here in Moore County.  We’ve got an award-winning newspaper, which is celebrating its success by cutting back to two print editions a week and erecting a pay

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Media, Moore County, Politics

RTP-area toll road lightly used, bleeding money. State: Let’s do SOME MORE !!!

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Brant Clifton

            Guess what?  Evidence is suggesting that toll road projects — like the one proposed for I-77 in Mecklenburg County — may not be the

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Kay Hagan thinks the IRS NEEDS more power & stuff to do

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Brant Clifton

In Washington, pols from both major parties are trampling each other to make it to a microphone and /or camera to denounce the Internal Revenue Service.  In case you’ve been

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Congress, Economy, Kay Hagan, Media, Politics
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Pinehurst: The K.I.S.S. rule for budgeting — and “yard debris evaluation” ???????

Posted on May 15, 2013May 15, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      Judging from the lamestream media accounts, Pinehurst village manager Andy Wilkison is shocked — SHOCKED — that council members want a budget that is (1) less than

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Media, Moore County, Politics

Ritter replacing Kennedy on Moore County board of commissioners

Posted on May 15, 2013May 15, 2013 by Brant Clifton

The resignation of Moore County commissioner Craig Kennedy, a few weeks back, has added a little bit of drama to Moore County politics.   Kennedy, in 2010, came out of

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Moore County, Politics, Uncategorized

The NC House: Seems like Old Times

Posted on May 15, 2013May 15, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    Neil Simon had a pretty successful movie in the 70s by that name.   It’s too bad we’re not talking about a comedy classic here.  Deals being cut behind

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics, Republicans, Thom Tillis
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Digging a little deeper inside the faculty lounge at UNC

Posted on May 15, 2013May 15, 2013 by Brant Clifton

What’s that smell, you ask?  Why it’s the patchouli-and-granola Chapel Hill-Carrboro crowd  stinking up Jones Street and tying up police officers’ valuable time –– comparing themselves to MLK and protesting

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Media, Politics
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Congress (and some NC pols) helping the taxman sink his claws into the Internet

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    The Senate has passed something called “The Marketplace Fairness Act.” Sounds nice, doesn’t it?  Who doesn’t like making stuff FAIR? Our Democrat senator, Ms. Hagan, and our Republican

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Congress, Economy, Kay Hagan, Media, Politics

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

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