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Fortenberry getting personal with McHenry in NC-10 GOP congressional primary

Posted on April 28, 2012April 29, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Lincoln County newspaperman Ken Fortenberry is throwing everything but the kitchen sink at incumbent congressman Patrick McHenry in the race for the GOP nomination in the state’s 10th congressional district.

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welfare offices on military bases: a national disgrace

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Fayetteville Observer published this gem this morning: [..] The Women, Infants and Children program office at Fort Bragg has closed. The office has consolidated operations with the Spring Lake

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Campaign 2012, Economy, Media, Politics

Pushing political party control OUTSIDE of the beltway (and beltline) is a good thing

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

In a recent column, The N&O’s Rob Christensen bemoaned the fact that state Democrat Party chairman David Parker owed his job more to activists outside Wake County than to the

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Toss Thom: Tillis is toxic to the fortunes of the NCGOP

Posted on April 27, 2012April 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I have long been suspicious of  state House speaker Thom Tillis.   He was recruited into politics by Richard Morgan —  Robin to Jim Black’s Batman — to run against

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Media, leftists depend on voter confusion to battle marriage amendment

Posted on April 27, 2012April 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

At a recent social gathering, I overheard a dear friend comment: “I am voting AGAINST this Amendment One thing.  We cannot have Adam and Steve getting married in the front

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

Pants on FIRE: Renee Ellmers and “traditional marriage”

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    North Carolina Second District congresswoman Renee Ellmers is airing an ad in the district which claims she fights for “traditional marriage between one man and one woman.” To

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Campaign 2012, Congress, Media, Moore County, Politics, Renee Ellmers

The N&O busts Tillis’s aide, but what about Dalton’s daughter?

Posted on April 27, 2012April 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    It’s a shame that — in the middle of the state’s full blown economic disaster — our political class is caught up in tabloid-quality stories and allegations.  

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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STILL waiting on those federal spending cuts

Posted on April 26, 2012April 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

You gotta love Congressman Allen West (R-FL).  Love him because the mainstream media and the DC establishment HATE him.  He says what needs to be said, and he backs up

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Campaign 2012, Congress, Politics, Republicans

Grow a pair. If you’re going to say it, put your name on it.

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

In this brave new world of cyberspace, you see an awful lot of frank, brutally honest commentary being poured out there.  Unfortunately, the most frank commentary tends to come from

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

Folwell on the rise in Lt. Gov race?

Posted on April 26, 2012April 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Recent polling shows Dale Folwell, the state House speaker pro tem and staunch conservative legislator from Forsyth County, moving to the front of the pack in the race for the

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC State Government, Politics

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