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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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Congress, Media, Politics
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Refunds for EVERYONE: Mecklenburg [bureau, Demo] -crats learn MATH IS HARD

Posted on February 23, 2013August 1, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      Charlotte and Mecklenburg County have had it rough.  Charlotte got the — ahem — privilege of hosting the Low-Information Traveling Circus (a/k/a the DNC)  this past year.

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Reading the tea leaves on Gov. Pat’s personnel moves

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      A recent personnel shuffle at NCDOT caught my attention.  According to media reports, Deputy DOT secretary for transit Paul Morris was “removed” by newly-appointed DOT secretary Tony

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Don’t believe the sequester HYPE!

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  We’re talking about $85 billion (cuts to GROWTH in spending)  over at least two years.   Congress passed a  Hurricane Sandy “relief” bill worth around $56 billion.  The Federal

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Bring on the sequester !

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  The mainstream media and The White House are warning of a coming apocalypse brought on by “draconian” spending cuts in the budget sequester that is to kick in on

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Ban bare boobs. Legalize Pot. (The Carolina Comeback?)

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    OK.  We’re billions in debt.  HHS is in shambles literally and fiscally.  ObamaCare is breathing down our neck from DC, as is an effort to wipe out our

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Economy, Law & Order, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics

Senator Tillman’s diploma bill becomes the very first signed into law by Gov. McCrory

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Senator Jerry Tillman (R-Asheboro) — who represents Moore County in the state  legislature — had the honor of hosting Gov. Pat McCrory in Asheboro for the signing of a Tillman-sponsored

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Media, Moore County, NC legislature, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics

McCrory “undefined”? Nope. We’ve got him figured out.

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  McClatchy seems to be quite puzzled by the mystery that is Pat McCrory. Is he “the centrist mayor of North Carolina’s largest city who campaigned as someone able to

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Turf wars and other tripe

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    Let’s count all of the various state law enforcement authorities we have here in North Carolina.  We have DMV enforcement — which goes after trucks that dodge weigh

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