Tag: campaign 2024

Some, um, “nutritious” Qs for Mark & Yolanda

Posted on July 12, 2023 by Brant Clifton

The drive-by media — the alleged “mainstream media” — is falling down on its job as our supposed eyes-and-ears and defenders of The First Amendment. They didn’t want to tell

Virginia Foxx’s critique hits CLOSE to home for The Robinsons

Posted on July 8, 2023July 8, 2023 by Brant Clifton

We’ve had an up-and-down relationship with congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC). She was a great conservative legislator in Raleigh, but fell off the wagon BIG TIME when she crossed into The

Arguing with inanimate objects: Mark Robinson tussles with a timer during DC speech

Posted on July 1, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Most people tend to look askance at those who engage in arguments with inanimate objects. But what do you do when it’s your lieutenant governor doing the arguing? Lieutenant Governor

Robinson Family Matters: STILL stonewalling

Posted on June 26, 2023 by Brant Clifton

We’ve reported in-depth on some serious problems with the financial reporting on Mark Robinson and Yolanda Hill-Robinson’s family business, Balanced Nutrition. It’s only fair that a man who so badly

A really bad trade in the works

Posted on June 24, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It’s no secret in state politics that congressman Dan Bishop is seriously looking at giving up his safe seat in DC for the attorney general’s office in Raleigh. In DC,

Robinson Family Matters: “Mom, is that YOU?”

Posted on June 21, 2023June 21, 2023 by Brant Clifton

We’ve previously reported on some, um, “concerns” about Greensboro-based Balanced Nutrition, the government contracting business being run by Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s wife Yolanda Hill. Our latest report found that

The Charge of the Troxler Brigade

Posted on June 20, 2023June 20, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Pope, Inc. put out a poll on the governor’s race not long ago featuring the name of Agriculture commissioner Steve Troxler. Troxler? Where did that come from? There hasn’t been

Robinson Family Matters: False Statements to the IRS?

Posted on June 20, 2023June 20, 2023 by Brant Clifton

(The Internal Revenue Service ranks right up there with mom and dad and GOD on the list of people you don’t intentionally mislead.) Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is seeking to

Should we stay or should we go?

Posted on June 18, 2023 by Brant Clifton

One of the great rock bands of all time asked a similar question several decades ago. Sometimes, it can be tough to choose a path forward when you’ve been

Clapping like trained seals while the country crumbles

Posted on June 17, 2023June 17, 2023 by Brant Clifton

I recently had the, um, “pleasure” of watching some US House committee hold a field hearing in Pinehurst about last December’s blackout. Two things really stuck out to me: DC