Tag: NCGOP

Ground Control to Major Thom …

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Country music’s John Rich got the ball rolling with songs mocking our senior US senator. Now, it seems that MAGA influencer – and meme and video genius — Brenden Dilley

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

The long knives are out. (It MUST be close to NCGOP convention time.)

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Such *great* timing, too. The name of our senior US senator is on the lips of the national conservative and MAGA movements. And those lips appear to be spitting a

Country star offers to perform at Tillis primary opponent’s rally

Posted on May 7, 2025May 7, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Country music performer John Rich has been a passionate, outspoken supporter of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. (Country fans may also remember him as the former co-lead singer of

Sen. Tom Mcinnis moves against local government overreach

Posted on April 27, 2025April 27, 2025 by Brant Clifton

This site is in an unfamiliar — and somewhat uncomfortable — position. We find ourselves on the same side of a debate as state senator Tom McInnis and the newsroom

Thom Tillis is a BIG part of THE PROBLEM. (* Um, SURPRISE ???*)

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Brant Clifton

On this site, we’ve made our lack of enthusiasm for North Carolina’s senior US senator quite clear. We’ve got an extensive archive of his anti-conservative shenanigans leading back to his

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

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

‘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

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