Tag: North Carolina

NC Campaign 2012: Don’t cry for the edu-crats

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

During the debate over the 2011 state budget, we heard a lot of screaming, crying, moaning and complaining from Democrats and their NCAE allies about alleged draconian budget cuts. The

NC Campaign 2012: things getting a little testy in the insurance commissioner race

Posted on August 9, 2012August 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I never imagined that we’d be dealing with mud-slinging and controversy in the race for NC Insurance Commissioner. Right out of the general election starting gate, incumbent Democrat Wayne Goodwin

You want ’em. We got ’em. POLLS !!!!!!!!!!

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Public Policy Polling has put out their latest numbers on the statewide races in North Carolina. In the governor’s race, their numbers are tracking pretty close to what Rasmussen Reports

Moore County-Robbins water deal looking more and more like a long-shot

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

My #1 mole in the Moore county bureaucracy tipped me off that commissioners Craig Kennedy and Nick Picerno recently connected with state Senator Jerry Tillman in Raleigh for a fact-finding

Obama’s (and the Democrats’) problem personified

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We’re getting hit by polls in the mainstream media suggesting that Obama is leading Romney, or that the race is too-close-to-call. I had an eye-opening chat

Did you eAt MoR ChiKin today?

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Today was the day Chik-fil-A was supposed to ‘pay the piper’ for angering the gay gods. Today was to be part of a great boycott featuring such pleasant sights as

City of Fayetteville continues with thuggish tactics against local businesswoman

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Jackie Pfendler is trying to prove the person wrong who said “You can’t fight city hall.” The City of Fayetteville has stomped all over her Fourth Amendment Rights, and

Campaign 2012: The great tax backfire in NC GOV race

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I swear I saw this coming. The Pat McCrory campaign, NCGOP and national GOP all jumped on a WECT TV interview where Democrat nominee Walter Dalton would

NC House district 92 GOPer Jeter: I’m no Thom Tillis puppet!

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Charles Jeter, the winner of the July 17 GOP runoff for NC House district 92, says he wants to clear the air about his

The Pilot ignores facts, accepts leftist spin on poverty

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Our thrice weekly local newspaper here in Moore County — which some say was first brought down the mountain on stone tablets by Moses — is no stranger