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What ever happened to CUTTING taxes AND cutting SPENDING ???

Posted on December 20, 2012December 20, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  Politicians in Raleigh and DC, aided and abetted by our oft-clueless media, are railing about how the only way to fix our economic mess is to get the ‘guv-mint’ 

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Economy, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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Paul Newby & The Supremes give NCDOT a reality check

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Brant Clifton

      Just in case you needed some evidence that elections MATTER, look no further than The North Carolina Supreme Court.  Justice Paul Newby, fresh off of a tough

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Law & Order, Media, NC State Government, Politics
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Welcome to the Obama Era: Uncle Sam & Aunt Bev are largest NC employers

Posted on December 17, 2012December 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    Triangle Business Journal’s ranking of  North Carolina’s Top Ten Largest Employers  speaks screams volumes about the sorry state of the Tar Heel State’s econ0my.   The two largest —

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics

Look Who’s Running ‘Thangs’ Now (Charlotte area makes its move in the Capital City)

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    North Carolina’s financial center (Charlotte) and its center of government (Raleigh) appear to be melding together or merging.  We’ve seen it in McClatchy buying both the Charlotte Observer

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

ObamaCare deadline passes, Gov. Pat STILL UNCOMMITTED on the issue

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    Unbelievable, isn’t it?   McCrory has named his HHS secretary but has not made up his mind about establishing a state health insurance exchange, a vital component of

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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NC Racial Justice Act continuing to do injustice to crime victims, families

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Three more violent criminals escaped death row today — thanks to a radically leftist Superior Court judge and a “gift”that keeps on giving from the NC General Assembly called The

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

Here we go again: Berger makes sense on reparations, Tillis DOES NOT

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    Let’s recap.  We have record unemployment, and one of the highest gas tax burdens in America.  We have the third highest amount of debt to the federal government

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Law & Order, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Phil Berger, Thom Tillis

Robin Hayes’s battle with foot-in-mouth disease

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

        I am really amazed that Robin Hayes survived as long as he did in Washington.  I’ve seen plenty of video of him in action as NCGOP

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Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Deafening silence on ObamaCare from leaders of ‘conservative revolution’ in Raleigh

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

      Gov Bill Haslam (R-TN), a moderate who campaigned for Pat McCrory this year, has announced his state will refuse to establish a health exchange called for in

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics

Creative jurisprudence 101: ‘viewpoint discrimination’ (Really? Seriously?)

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

        Since the mid-20th century, politicians have done a *GREAT* job of politicizing the American judiciary at all of its levels.  We get a lot more ideology-based

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