Tag: North Carolina

#NCGA: A Common Core food fight?

Posted on June 18, 2014June 18, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Want to send blood pressure readings through the roof? Mention those two magical C-words among a crowd of people and stand back to watch the ensuing fireworks. Common Core is

#NCSEN: ObamaCare is BAD because — um, (WHA…????)

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Uncle Karl and American Crossroads GPS have gone to bat for Speaker Thom again. They’re plastering the state’s airwaves with an ad blasting Kay Hagan’s support of ObamaCare. The ad

#NCSEN: Pulling out the race card

Posted on June 17, 2014June 17, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve had that rotund, jheri-curled oaf Bill Barber out there for months hollering about the white Republicans on Jones Street. Kay Hagan took Cory Booker — the New Jersey Democrat

NC-06’s Berger: Being Effective = Backing Boehner?

Posted on June 16, 2014June 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

It’s really frustrating when Republican candidates say really dumb things that allow Democrats to come out sounding down-right sensible. Case in point: Rockingham County prosecutor Phil Berger, Jr., who is

NC-02: Ellmers THE ONLY NCGOPer to back welfare for illegal immigrants

Posted on June 13, 2014June 13, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Renee Ellmers is the luckiest broad in the Milky Way galaxy. She would be little more than a political footnote if not for this video. In 2012, redistricting lagged for so

Coming Soon To A Theater Near You: THE BIG ‘DOUBLE-CROSS’

Posted on June 12, 2014June 12, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Wilmington-area legislators and movie industry types are pretty mad. It looks like incentives for the film industry are not going to survive the state House. These folks REALLY thought they

BOHICA Alert: Cost projections show new toll roads to be LITERAL highway robbery

Posted on June 11, 2014June 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Thom Tillis, Skip Stam, and the McCrory administration have all been singing the praises of HOT lanes and tolls as THE BEST way to pay for future road construction and

#NCSEN: A Klingon tries to make it a Five-some

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been hearing about efforts to get former state legislator John Rhodes qualified as a write-in candidate. Now, it appears a Klingon-speaking former town councilman from Indian Trail is trying

#NCSEN: Conservative write-in effort kicks into gear

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Brant Clifton

If all goes as one group of activists hopes, North Carolinians will have a FOURTH choice for US Senate this November. Democrat Kay Hagan, Republican Thom Tillis, and Libertarian Sean

#NCSEN: Let’s play The Blame Game. The pizza man, the baby doc, or the web site?

Posted on June 8, 2014June 8, 2014 by Brant Clifton

During the recently completed primary, we were told that Thom Tillis is on cruise-control to Capitol Hill. Kay Hagan needs to start packing. Miss Susan can start measuring for drapes.