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Campaign 2012: crotch-punching returning to center-stage?

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

This year’s gubernatorial campaign is looking more and more like an economic stimulus program for members of the state bar association. We’ve got the Pat McCrory campaign retaining lawyers to

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Campaign 2012, Law & Order, Media, NC legislature, Politics

Imitation: The Sincerest Form of Flattery?

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Far too often in business (and other areas of society), when someone does something that WORKS, you get all kinds of other folks doing something pretty doggone similar.  Amazon rolled

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Campaign 2012, Media, NCGOP, Politics

As The Budget Busts: the expensive soap opera being rolled out by Jones Street studios

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  We had a GOP takeover of the General Assembly which showed promise of introducing fiscal sanity to state government.  The 2011 budget debate had leftists hollering about mean old

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Carolina Journal: Room for improvement in NC House budget proposal

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    Analysts with Raleigh’s John Locke Foundation say there are plenty of good things in the state budget proposal currently moving through state legislative chambers, but caution that conservatives

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Meet Ed Goodwin, candidate for NC Secretary of State

Posted on May 30, 2012May 30, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Most people, when they hear the words ‘secretary of state’, they think of foreign policy and Hillary Clinton. The position of North Carolina Secretary of State plays a significant role

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Mentally incompetent? Here’s your ballot.

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Life in this state never ceases to amaze me.  Our state government is absolutely amazing. Gaston Pridgen — Robeson County’s first elected GOP legislator EVER — is doing yeoman’s work

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Renee Ellmers making overtures to GOP’s left wing?

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  A TV ad during the May primary promoted congresswoman Renee Ellmers as “North Carolina’s most conservative member of Congress.” It also plugged her as a fighter for “traditional marriage”

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North Carolina’s ‘baby-mama drama’ : Will John Edwards — um — GET OFF?

Posted on May 29, 2012May 30, 2012 by Brant Clifton

As a former journalist who has covered more than my fair share of trials — my experience has found that, the longer a jury deliberates, the better the chances are

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Campaign 2012, Law & Order, Media, Moore County, Politics

L’affaire LaRoque: C’est fini?

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Well, it appears embattled Republican legislator and state House Rules Committee chairman Stephen LaRoque  is DONE.  The recount in his apparent May 8th loss to challenger John Bell confirmed that

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A real gem on PBS

Posted on May 29, 2012May 29, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I — like a lot of free-marketeers — generally give a thumbs down to public broadcasting.  In the era of cable and satellite and Internet broadcasting HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS

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Campaign 2012, Economy, Media, Politics

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