The Daily Haymaker

Why social issues are important to GOP success

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The “conventional wisdom” out there is that Republican candidates need to run away from ANY discussion of social issues for fear of alienating the almighty moderates out

Announcement of tax dollars for brewery raises new set of questions

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It appears that Pinehurst Village government has jumped head-first into the venture capital game — picking winners and losers by investing tax dollars in certain enterprises seeking

Owner of The Pilot newspaper showed BarryO the money in 2011

Posted on March 7, 2012March 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Charlotte Observer has a pretty neat searchable database on its web site detailing 2011 contributions to presidential candidates by North Carolinians. One search of that database found “Frank Daniels,

Google, Bob Etheridge & name ID

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Judging from a routine Google search, Democrat gubernatorial frontrunner Bobby “Boom Boom” Etheridge’s PR team has its work cut out for it. Go to Google and input “bob

UNC athletics, Rush & the ghost of McCarthyism

Posted on March 7, 2012March 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The leftist lynch mob is STILL after El Rushbo even after he apologized for his choice of words. This proves it’s not about “civil discourse.” It’s all about shutting

BarryO and THAT dubious Elon / N&O poll

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The N&O newsroom is falling all over its collective self to trumpet a poll it co-sponsored with Elon University that appears to show BarryO’s approval on the upswing here in

NYC direct flights in the cards for Moore County Airport?

Posted on March 6, 2012March 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I had an interesting discussion the other day with a local business community mover-and-shaker who is also in-the-know on economic development. Our subject turned to Moore County’s Airport and the

Cops to focus on catching crooks, bakers to focus on making bread, and new schools chief to focus on literacy

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Apparently, The Fayetteville Observer thinks it is newsworthy that the new Moore County Schools superintendent is going to focus on ‘literacy.’ Um — what ELSE should he be

Pay no attention to THAT failing economy …

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

A lot of times, when there is something someone REALLY doesn’t want to talk about, they’ll try to turn your attention to ANOTHER UNRELATED subject. That’s the tactic

How Rush SHOULD have done it

Posted on March 5, 2012March 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The MSM is abuzz over El Rushbo’s apology to the Georgetown law student who wants us all to pay for her birth control pills. Some video (h/t