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Flowers are blooming. Temperatures rising. Berger Team? (*Back in Court.*)

Posted on April 21, 2025April 21, 2025 by Brant Clifton

A lawsuit that had its origins in Rockingham County may now have seismic consequences for state Republican politics.  A former Rockingham County commissioner — and critic of casinos and other

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campaign 2024, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Phil Berger, Politics
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A sensible move on teacher licensing

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Over on Jones Street, legislators are reforming teacher licensure so that the process and end-product play a less important role in staffing our schools.  Of course, the educrats — the

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Education, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics

Chickens coming home to roost re: betting on college sports

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Brant Clifton

I’m old enough to remember when the gambling industry was kept at arms-length from college sports.  It was a noble attempt to try and preserve some integrity for extracurricular activities

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Law & Order, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Phil Berger, Politics
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‘He has to shrink away from greatness’ : The NY Times on Thom Tillis’s ‘poignant surrender’

Posted on April 17, 2025April 17, 2025 by Brant Clifton

‘Greatness,’ eh? The New York Times slobbering lovingly over a Republican sets off my alarm bells and should do the same for every other conservative out there. Apparently, to The

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campaign 2026, Congress, Donald Trump, Law & Order, Media, NCGOP, NCSEN26, Politics, Thom Tillis
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A wee bit of truth to water down the tariff hysteria

Posted on April 14, 2025April 14, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Never mind the damage that Biden and Obama and the Bushes did to our national economy. What Trump is doing with these tariffs is — we’re told by our marxist

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Donald Trump, Economy, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis, Thom Tillis

Study: NC a national leader in refusing to cooperate with ICE

Posted on April 13, 2025 by Brant Clifton

While Raleigh Republicans are swooning over our radical left-wing governor-by-default, a bigger problem is brewing at the state level.  A new study from The Center for Immigration Studies indicates that

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Josh Stein, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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Raleigh’s *conservative revolution* talking out of both sides of their mouths re: DEI

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Yet another outbreak of ‘mealy-mouth’ disease in Raleigh shouldn’t surprise much of anyone.  On Jones Street, the lies come pouring out so fast and furious that it’s often hard to

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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How to view the budget debate in DC

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Elon Musk and his team at DOGE have been doing yeoman’s work at the federal level. It’s absolutely refreshing to see and hear this kind of discussion emanating from our

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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The SCC Files: going off the deep end (AGAIN)

Posted on April 8, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It’s a universally-accepted fact around Moore County that Sandhills Community College (SCC) president emeritus John Dempsey is a nice person who can be a lot of fun at cocktail parties.

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Education, Media, Moore County, Politics
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Elon & DOGE set to target ‘strangely wealthy’ congress-critters

Posted on April 6, 2025April 7, 2025 by Brant Clifton

THAT should get the attention of North Carolina’s own David Rouzer. President Trump’s very own DOGE-meister Elon Musk has informed the world that his team is planning to look really

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Congress, David Rouzer, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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