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Team Charlotte SPLIT on voter ID details?

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      House Speaker Thom Tillis and Gov. Pat McCrory have BOTH said they would be willing to accept voter ID legislation that DOES NOT require an officially-issued photo

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Law & Order, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics

My two cents (or so) on all of this immigration talk

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      We’ve got all kinds of folks at the federal and state level opining on this issue.  (Never mind the anemic economic growth, the smothering bureaucracy, and the

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Congress, Economy, Media, Politics
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Tea Party finds an opponent for Kay Hagan

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

  The Republican Liberty Caucus and The Eastern North Carolina Tea Party have united behind a Wake County physician’s effort to unseat U.S. Senator Kay Hagan.   Dr. Greg Brannon

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Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics, Republicans
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Carolina Comeback?: kick people off unemployment, raise taxes, send state $$$$ to Carolina Panthers

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Brant Clifton

One of Richard Morgan’s favorite legislators, Julia Howard, says we need to kick a bunch of people off of unemployment by July 1.  In the meantime, legislators from Gov. Pat

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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As Gov. Pat goes, so goes Speaker Thom

Posted on January 26, 2013January 26, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    It’s becoming increasingly clear that the state House leadership and the governor’s office are working in tandem.  And NOT in a good way.  Speaker Thom Tillis talks tough

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics, Thom Tillis
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The McCrory era SO FAR: ObamaCare surrender, “progressive” tax code, wind energy

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Brant Clifton

        Supposedly, our state is in the midst of a “conservative revolution.”  But the message we’re getting out of our new administration in Raleigh is sounding a

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Media, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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Open up and say AAAAARRGGH: RNC to give us SOME MORE Reince

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Brant Clifton

        It appears that the DC establishment has worked the rules and played some hardball to guarantee RNC chairman Reince Preibus will run for reelection unopposed.  Brian

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Media, NCGOP, Politics, Republicans

The debt ceiling: A recurring, bi-partisan SNOW JOB

Posted on January 25, 2013January 25, 2013 by Brant Clifton

          Here in the Carolinas, we’re being hit with weather reports about severe wintry weather.  Schools are already closing — before the first snowflake has fallen.

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Congress, Economy, Media, Obama, Politics, Republicans

Pope’s tax comments: Trial Balloon? Message from Gov Pat to NCGA? (Both?)

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Brant Clifton

        State budget director Art Pope — a/k/a Chris Fitzsimon’s bogey-man — made some news and raised some eyebrows with his recent comments about efforts in the

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Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics

Atlas Shrugging @ The PGA? (Elsewhere?)

Posted on January 23, 2013January 23, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      Low-information America and its enablers in the mainstream media are in a snit over Phil Mickelson’s complaint about the amount of taxes he is being forced to

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Media, Politics
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