The Daily Haymaker

Pinehurst 2011: All hail the queen!

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Pinehurst voters made history Tuesday evening by electing the village’s first female mayor (Ginsey was appointed) and the first council member from Pinewild. From the beginning, mayoral candidate

Southern Pines 2011: Progress Energy, Food Lion and Bo’s can breathe a little easier …

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The NIMBY ticket — and potential startup law firm — of Smith, Smithson and Woodruff went down in flames like the Hindenberg zeppelin on Tuesday. Southern Pines voters rejected

Charlotte 2012: Watch what DNC does, not what they say

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Brant Clifton

After public complaints about non-union local businesses being shut out of business opportunities for the 2012 DNC convention in Charlotte, national and state Democrats promised that

Senator DeMint: We are STILL not cutting.

Posted on November 8, 2011November 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

For those of us active in The Tea Party, who thought we really brought change to Washington in November 2010, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint’s (R-SC) article in National

Campaign 2011: IS IT OVER YET ??????

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Ah, yes. This wonderful expression of democracy we’ve been treated to here in the county of Moore for the last few months will mercifully come to an end

Pinehurst 2011: Is the V-A-T a B-U-S-T?

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The Village Action Team took to the stage at the beginning of the campaign like a storm. It pushed a specific agenda and endorsed the candidacies of Nancy Fiorillo, Mark

Sounds like somebody’s getting a little fussy …

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Boy, you ought to hear the Raleigh press corps — whining like a bunch of babies. The mean old Republicans in charge of things in

Former S.C. First Lady speaks out on Herman Cain and media’s scandal fixation

Posted on November 6, 2011November 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Jenny Sanford was speaking from experience when she penned her op-ed that appeared Thursday in Columbia’s State newspaper. She was The Palmetto State’s first lady when her now