The Daily Haymaker

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

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