The Daily Haymaker

One MOORE entrant for the state senate GOP primary?

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Stuff keeps coming in over the transom about the state senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Harris Blake of Pinehurst. Recent redistricting moved Blake and Moore

Pinehurst’s Cummings to pursue state Senate seat?

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Brant Clifton

My spies within Raleigh political circles, and on the ground here in Moore County and throughout the Sandhills region, tell me retired physician Robin Cummings of Pinehurst is seriously eyeing

Leftists demand a free lunch

Posted on September 23, 2011September 24, 2011 by Brant Clifton

We’ve got real good case study going on right now illustrating how disingenuous leftists and their comrades in the alleged Mainstream Media (MSM) can be when they

Stam goes into the belly of the beast, gets gnawed on

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Seriously, Mr. Leader. What good did you think could come from going to Chapel Hill to defend the gay marriage ban constitutional amendment? Going over there was akin to a

Hi Mom! Look at Me! I’m President!

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Brant Clifton

OK. This screams “photoshop.” MSNBC — the chief stenographers for BarryO — posted this photo without commenting on its bizarre nature. (Some of the commenters on their web

Campaign 2011: PAC to influence Pinehurst elections?

Posted on September 22, 2011October 1, 2011 by Brant Clifton

I was trolling around recently on the Moore County Board of Elections web site. (I know — I lead a very exciting life.) One entry among the campaign report listings that caught

If you talk the talk, you better walk the walk

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Brant Clifton

I hate to say it, but I am leaning toward the N&O on this one. During the 2010 campaign, U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-Dunn) attacked her opponent, then-incumbent

Attacking others’ success to distract from Barry-O’s failures

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Has anyone else noticed the hard left turn of the Democrats’ rhetoric recently? They’re panicking. Their big government, redistributionist policies are pushing the country into a bigger, deeper economic

More taxes for thee, but not for me

Posted on September 20, 2011September 20, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Superstar, super-rich investor Warren Buffett is all over the alleged Mainstream Media (MSM) for allowing his name to be attached to Barry-O’s latest scheme to jack up taxes in

Huh? What? A listening tour?

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The campaign silly season is upon us. Politicians are running all over the countryside kissing babies and telling us how bad the other guys are. Thanks to the Tea Party