The Daily Haymaker

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

Barry HOPEs he can get all of our big bills AND our spare CHANGE

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Record unemployment. Record home foreclosures. Record number of personal and business bankruptcies. People are hurting. Barry-O thinks it is a GREAT time to pile on some new taxes

The bridges are falling! The bridges are falling!

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Barry-O is flitting around the country spinning a yarn about how EXACTLY 153 bridges will fall if Congress doesn’t approve his “American Jobs Act” – which actually hits struggling

Barry-O and Little Joe invade Carolina …

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Brant Clifton

What’s next — plague, locusts? North Carolina has been hit with more of its fair share of misfortune lately. Not just a hurricane and an earthquake. This week

Pat McCrory and the polls

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The folks at the N&O’s Under The Dome column appear a bit giddy over the latest data on the 2012 NC governor race from Triangle-based Democrat consulting firm Public Policy

Cold hard truth re: social security

Posted on September 15, 2011September 15, 2011 by Brant Clifton

While most all of Barack Obama’s prospective Republican opponents are busy pandering to the media over social security, one columnist, Michael Walsh of The New York Post, is

Celebrating job creation — in Latin America …

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Brant Clifton

We in North Carolina are being blessed with the honor of a visit from the great Barry-O. He will be speaking to students at NC State University in Raleigh and

The Tea Party is living rent-free in Bev’s head

Posted on September 13, 2011September 13, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The alleged mainstream media (MSM) spends a lot of time and energy trying to tell us that the Tea Party is an extremist fringe who should not be taken seriously.

N&O tries to carry Bev across the finish line

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Rob Christensen and the boys in the N&O newsroom appear to be quite excited about a new poll from Colorado-based Magellan Strategies showing Pat McCrory only leading Madame Governor by

A Whole Lotta Sex-Talk in Raleigh

Posted on September 13, 2011September 13, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Well, the “honorables” in the North Carolina House have voted overwhelmingly to put the issue of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage on the May primary election ballot. Of course,