Tag: media

WHAT(ley) ???

Posted on July 24, 2025July 24, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Given what we found on X last night, we were expecting much different news than what we got hit with. THAT is congressman Pat Harrigan and his wife visiting The

The Senate race name game

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Brant Clifton

I’m mainly glad the name Tillis will be gone SOON. From our vantage point here at Haymaker HQ, we see and hear a lot of things. Some are funny and

If you thought $$$-mgmt at Sandhills CC was bad, get a load of Lenoir County, NC.

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Brant Clifton

We’ve written extensively about the really bad and horrible state audit of Sandhills Community College. We’re talking about a $6.2 million screwup and an audit report scolding the college for

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

Where are the federal judges, prosecutors?

Posted on July 16, 2025 by Brant Clifton

One of the many spoils that go to the victors in presidential races is the privilege of nominating and appointing federal judges and prosecutors. There are three federal judicial districts

Thommy Boy’s nausea-inducing “Tha-Tha” Thour

Posted on July 15, 2025July 15, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Boy, those bridges are burning. Thom Tillis — after all those years of thumbing his nose at us and generally behaving like an anus — is doing his damnedest to

As The Weed Burns: another NC politics-tied drama lawyers up

Posted on July 12, 2025July 12, 2025 by Brant Clifton

There was speaker-turned-congressman Timmy Moore and all that turmoil over Biscuitville and a divorce. There’s an on-going courtroom drama involving the Senate president pro tem’s son and several of his

TWO North Carolinians plead guilty to aiding attempted Trump assassination

Posted on July 12, 2025July 12, 2025 by Brant Clifton

You might remember the guy authorities caught hiding in the wooded areas around the Trump golf course down in Palm Beach. He was reportedly equipped and ready to go with

Thommy Boy’s Themper Thantrum and the Medicaid Scam

Posted on July 2, 2025July 2, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Our senior US senator is all over the national news boo-hooing about the sick state of politics, how he’s tired of it all, and how he wants to spend more

Tillis (apparently) not running for reelection

Posted on June 29, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Donald Trump got mad at our senior senator for voting against his Big Beautiful Bill. Trump posted on Truth Social that he would be meeting with potential primary challengers for