The Daily Haymaker

Moore County endorsements 2012: “No turn left un-stoned”

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We don’t have a whole lot of political drama here in Moore County this year. ( The race for District Court has been nasty, but I have addressed all that

Endorsements 2012: Here Come The Judges!

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Judicial elections are tough for most voters. If you tend to behave yourself, you have very little contact with these men (and women) in black. The media tends

Renee Ellmers’s Moore County problem

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Second Congressional District’s incumbent representative seems to be doing her best to ruin the gift horse delivered to her during redistricting. The “honorables” on Jones Street handed Renee Ellmers

Barack Hussein Smithson

Posted on October 28, 2012October 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We’ve had to endure nearly four years of class warfare nonsense from our soon-to-be ex-president and his cronies. Now, we’re getting it on the local level from Southern

Campaign 2012: The man behind the anti-Wilkins PAC shows himself

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

According to the official ballot, area voters will be choosing this year between incumbent Rob Wilkins and challenger Jane Redding for a District Court seat. But media accounts from Randolph

Dems & The N&O ignore the unemployment lines and give us “The Year of The Lady Parts”

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

While North Carolina’s economy continues to rot. and the unemployment lines get bigger, the Democrat Party only wants to talk about gynecology. First, the Obama campaign put up

Campaign 2012: What’s cooking in Deb Butler’s kitchen?

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

*I am sure that the voters of one New Hanover County-based state senate district were looking for a deep, detailed discussion of gynecological practices during this

Corruption, dishonesty are bi-partisan ailments

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I heard through the grapevine that John Hood thinks I don’t like him very much. (For the record, all I know of him is what I read in his

Memo to Governor McCrory: Heed Gary’s advice, remember Jim Martin

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The political establishment — and the state political media — are coming around to the realization that, barring the discovery of a dead girl or a live boy in the

NCGOP vice chair King: “Goldman? Malone? I see nothing! I know nothing!”

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

What’s been bouncing around the political gossip network for a few years has FINALLY made it to the pages of The N&O. The NCGOP establishment bent over backwards to force