Tag: NCGOP

Could 2024 be the end of the road for congressman “Face-grabber”?

Posted on January 10, 2024January 10, 2024 by Brant Clifton

He’s been caught fabricating a company and making himself out to be some kind of entrepreneur — when he’s spent his whole adult life as a political hack. When

State Employees endorse Dale Folwell for governor

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Everyone seems ready to blow off the primaries and just let Mark Robinson and Josh Stein just GET TO IT. Apparently, somebody forgot to clue in North Carolina’s state employees

Report: Stroud -Dillon switchout on NC Court of Appeals part of NEW Newby “plan”

Posted on January 7, 2024January 7, 2024 by Brant Clifton

The state’s political universe has been buzzing about Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby‘s removal of fellow Republican judge Donna Stroud as chief judge of the state’s Court of Appeals. Lots

Harvard’s (now former) president, DEI, and the lessons needed to be learned

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Brant Clifton

I always thought it was settled — in the 1860s AND 1960s — that discrimination based on ethnicity was and is WRONG WRONG WRONG (and illegal). We’ve moved from that

2024 about inserting Phil Berger at top of Raleigh’s political “food chain”?

Posted on December 31, 2023 by Brant Clifton

There was a popular game making the rounds years ago called something along the lines of “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” The object was to take a person’s name and

Tim Moore: Unacceptable

Posted on December 30, 2023December 30, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It looks like another one of my bleak predictions is coming true. The last vestiges of conservatism are being stomped out of our state’s congressional delegation. Congressman Dan Bishop —

Corruption of the word “conservative”

Posted on December 22, 2023 by Brant Clifton

The political universe has done a masterful job of sucking all the meaning out of being a “Republican.” These days, you don’t have to actually believe in one iota of

Time for a Truth Bomb, eh?

Posted on December 19, 2023 by Brant Clifton

THIS has been floating around social media today. (*SNIFF*! I do believe someone is trying to blow smoke up my posterior!) Gee, where do I start? “Citizen Governor” ??? Mark

Jim Perry a YES, then a NO on filing for reelection

Posted on December 17, 2023 by Brant Clifton

We saw a 180-degree maneuver from congressman Patrick McHenry regarding reelection. Then, we get something similar from state senate majority whip Jim Perry. A Kinston news site reported on November

So, DJT thinks MKR >= MLK? (Seriously?)

Posted on December 13, 2023December 13, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Mark Robinson and Yolanda Hill have racked up three bankruptcies, an eviction, a business failure, and multiple bad check charges. Even though they now make a combined $350,000 per year,