Tag: NC Legislature

The Racial Justice Act & Bev’s ‘Pet Monster’

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Every day I am more convinced that lawyers are leading the decline and fall of western civilization. They are in front of Congress claiming James Madison and Thomas Jefferson

WAY too many ‘free passes’ for 2012 @ NCGA

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

As election filing ended yesterday, we learned that 39 of the 17o North Carolina General Assembly seats will have ONE and ONLY ONE choice for voters in May and November.

Our local newspaper, printed on dead trees, condemns Republicans for tree murder

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Our Nobel Prize-winning local paper — owned and operated by the same folks who, for over a century, owned and operated The N&O

‘McCarthyism’ rears its ugly head in Racial Justice Act political drama

Posted on February 8, 2012February 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Leftists are utilizing tactics they have long despised — loudly and publicly — in an effort to intimidate people who believe that violent criminals deserve the harshest

Feds, state attempt to stick it to NC drivers ONE MORE TIME

Posted on February 8, 2012February 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Federal and state bureaucrats are attempting to add 15 to 20 cents PER MILE of cost to drivers on I-95 in North Carolina. Tar Heel state drivers are already

L’affaire Laroque offers unique glimpse into secretive world of legislative ethics

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Brant Clifton

State Rep. Stephen Laroque — a close friend and political ally of House Speaker Thom Tillis — is taking a lot of heat over his management

NCGOP’s lack of action on tax relief disturbing

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The next time you’re filling up your gas tank at your local convenience store and cursing FILL IN THE BLANK (the store owner, the oil companies, George Bush …), think

North Carolina’s unemployment insurance mess

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Tar Heel State’s unemployment rate exceeds the national average. Ol’ Bev keeps extending unemployment benefits for the state’s long-term unemployed. All of this is going on in

L’affaire LaRoque gets some federal attention

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Sarah Ovaska, at NCPolicyWatch, has been on top of the scandal swirling around state Rep. Stephen Laroque (R-Kinston) since the beginning. Now, she’s confirmed

And the spending goes on and on and on …

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina is broke — or so we were told during the fight over the state budget during this last session. Stuff got cut out left and