Tag: North Carolina

Endorsements 2012: Mitt & Pat

Posted on November 1, 2012November 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The GOP nominees for the top two posts we’ll be voting for on November 6 can really vouch for the old theorem about “right place, right time.”

Moore County endorsements 2012: “No turn left un-stoned”

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We don’t have a whole lot of political drama here in Moore County this year. ( The race for District Court has been nasty, but I have addressed all that

Endorsements 2012: Here Come The Judges!

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Judicial elections are tough for most voters. If you tend to behave yourself, you have very little contact with these men (and women) in black. The media tends

Campaign 2012: The man behind the anti-Wilkins PAC shows himself

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

According to the official ballot, area voters will be choosing this year between incumbent Rob Wilkins and challenger Jane Redding for a District Court seat. But media accounts from Randolph

Dems & The N&O ignore the unemployment lines and give us “The Year of The Lady Parts”

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

While North Carolina’s economy continues to rot. and the unemployment lines get bigger, the Democrat Party only wants to talk about gynecology. First, the Obama campaign put up

Campaign 2012: What’s cooking in Deb Butler’s kitchen?

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

*I am sure that the voters of one New Hanover County-based state senate district were looking for a deep, detailed discussion of gynecological practices during this

Corruption, dishonesty are bi-partisan ailments

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I heard through the grapevine that John Hood thinks I don’t like him very much. (For the record, all I know of him is what I read in his

NC Dems and their muddled definition of ‘extremism’

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Things are so bad for The North Carolina Democratic Party that Linda Coleman, nominee for lieutenant governor, is their last best hope for something to celebrate on

The importance of those Council of State races

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Brant Clifton

During big election years, people get excited about the candidates for president, governor, and Congress. But when the conversation turns to races like Secretary of State, Secretary of Labor, and

Are Richard Hudson and the GOP Establishment selling us a bill of goods?

Posted on October 21, 2012October 21, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Richard Hudson, the GOP nominee for the 8th congressional district, has been spending a lot of time raising questions about incumbent Larry Kissell’s character. We’ve done some