The Daily Haymaker

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

First it’s Kotter. Now it’s Bauer. (Welcome back, Andre?)

Posted on November 5, 2011November 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Former South Carolina lieutenant governor Andre Bauer appears to be trying for a political comeback by running for Congress in 2012: The race for who

D.C. Dems straddle fence on union vs. non-union labor at Charlotte 2012 convention

Posted on November 5, 2011November 5, 2011 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina is one of the least-unionized states in the country. The Democrat Party, which owes the unions BIG TIME, is holding its 2012 national

N&O, leftist teamwork in Wake school board race a travesty

Posted on November 4, 2011November 5, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The N&O teamed up with its former employees in Boss Bev’s press office to walk back her bizarre, baffling, stupid comments about ‘suspending elections.’ Now, the good,

Politico paints a bullseye on Boss Bev

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Politico, the DC-based political web site, says the 2012 race for governor is the SECOND most competitive in the nation: Two public polls found Republican

The Pilot parrots state Dem talking points …

Posted on November 4, 2011November 4, 2011 by Brant Clifton

It is ASTOUNDING how much the staff editorials in our thrice-weekly Pulitzer Prize-winning local paper mirror the rhetoric on MSNBC and the spin of the state

Pinehurst 2011: Some thoughts on Strickland’s road thoughts