The Daily Haymaker

Lay off Small Business

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The title of this post is the same as the title for an excellent, thought-provoking op-ed a Moore County small business owner penned in a recent

BarryO invades North Carolina AGAIN (Where’s Bev?)

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

We didn’t ask for it, but we got it ANYWAY. BarryO is rolling across the western end of our lovely state with his gas-guzzling, carbon-footprint-expanding bus

Ellmers looking weak in congressional money chase

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The most recent round of campaign finance reports indicate a weak showing for North Carolina’s freshman U.S. Rep Renee Ellmers (R-Dunn). Ellmers, representing the state’s Second District (which should include

Oh look, dear. A head on a stick …

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Brant Clifton

(Yes, that is a severed head on a pike at the Occupy Wall Street ‘event’ in NYC. More specifically, it is an effigy of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s

Pinehurst 2011: Mayoral ‘qualifications’

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Don’t you just love the empty buzzwords and catchphrases political candidates use in their ads? As an example, let’s look at the campaign of Pinehurst mayoral wannabe Joan Thurman. Her

Media lets Leftist mouthpieces attack Cain’s 9-9-9 plan

Posted on October 16, 2011October 16, 2011 by Brant Clifton

You can tell who the Left fears the most by looking at who the media attacks the hardest. McClatchy Newspapers — which owns The N&O and The Charlotte Observer

Pinehurst 2011: The Police Department

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Brant Clifton

I’ve always been a huge booster of law enforcement. I have a lot of friends who put on badges and strap on their holsters to go to work every

Exposing the expensive ‘green jobs’ myth

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Environmentalist rhetoric about the wonder of ‘green’ environmentally-friendly jobs is not matching up to reality. The Washington Post, not exactly a conservative propaganda rag, has pointed out that, just

Campaign 2011: Inside The Pilot’s endorsement deliberations

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

Yes, Moore County. Our thrice-weekly Pulitzer Prize winning local newspaper is in the midst of preparing its endorsements for the municipal elections in November. The paper’s editorial staff has

Alleged MSM trying to take Tillis to the woodshed