Tag: DOGE

While DC balks at cutting spending, the numbers just keep getting worse

Posted on July 19, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Yes, I know we have a GOP majority in DC. But it is exasperating to keep having to call JD Vance in to break ties on votes to cut ANY

Big salaries. Big staffs. Big government. (Big part of the problem)

Posted on May 18, 2025May 18, 2025 by Brant Clifton

John Torbett and a few other legislators are making some noise about recreating Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts right here in good ol’ North Carolina. If he and his crew are

WI senator: Despite DOGE talk + GOP majorities, DC still has us headed over the cliff

Posted on May 13, 2025May 13, 2025 by Brant Clifton

In the late 90s we had TWO senators — Faircloth and Helms — who talked honestly like this. Now, we have to rely on senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) to tell

Are elected folks as committed to smaller, cheaper government as we are?

Posted on May 12, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The evidence out there suggests a big, fat NO. In Raleigh, legislative Republicans are rolling out a North Carolina version of Elon Musk‘s DOGE effort to root out and eliminate

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

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

Tom Sawyer’s fence-painting scam alive and well in Raleigh, DC

Posted on April 5, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Mark Twain did a great job capturing American life during his time. In fact, he did such a good job that modern-day leftists have banned and censored the bejeezus out

Debt has ALWAYS been the ruin of great powers. Is the U.S. next?

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Brant Clifton

THAT is the question posed by preeminent historian Niall Ferguson in a recent thought-provoking Wall Street Journal column: […] What I call Ferguson’s Law states that any great power that

Non-violent uprisings and other anti-DOGE nonsense

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Do you ever wonder why we struggle to find quality people to run for and hold office? Perhaps it’s because they don’t want to bother with the mayhem inflicted against

Surprisingly supportive words for Elon from an equally surprising source

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Richard Hudson‘s job title up in DC is “representative.” That means he is supposed to be our voice up on The Hill. Since 2013, he’s paid attention almost exclusively to