Tag: North Carolina

Ellmers slams state’s I-95 toll proposal

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Can I get an Amen? My congresswoman and I are singing from the same sheet of music on this issue of tolls on I-95. I dealt with these

Ellmers sets her sights on ObamaCare

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers — an RN married to an MD — has got a true insiders perspective on American healthcare and government bureaucracy’s effect on

Oh, hell. Richard’s back. (AGAIN)

Posted on February 29, 2012March 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

SpeakerrrrrRichardMorgan™ is starting to remind me of Jason Voorhees, the deranged killer in all of those really bad Friday The 13th movies. The heroes in those movies are

NC’s I-95 tolls to hit MORE than just drivers

Posted on February 28, 2012February 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Legislators and bureaucrats in Raleigh are blowing through funds like a drunken sailor on an extended shore leave. Instead of tightening their belts and trying

NCGOP: Merely a new set of money-changers in the temple?

Posted on February 28, 2012February 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

GOP leaders took power on Jones Street in 2010 with promises of “no more business as usual.” They were propelled into power by an angry Tea Party and frustrated

Study: No connection between fracking and groundwater pollution

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina is looking at a potentially enormous economic boom with fracking. North Dakota is already booming. The energy industry believes that The Tar Heel State

Pinehurst: “ambience” & selective indignation

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

When you think of Pinehurst, North Carolina, you think of pristine, well-manicured championship golf courses, the quaint downtown area, and The Carolina Hotel. You certainly don’t think of locales like

NCDOT: Plenty of $$$$ for Moore County Airport, but not for I-95

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It’s recently hit the news that the “wise” persons in our state government are going to set up tolls on I-95 to pay for much-needed renovations. So, in

Senator Burr: Having it both ways with BarryO’s stimulus

Posted on February 26, 2012February 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) published a great piece the other day in The Charlotte Observer on the evils of BarryO’s stimulus: Three years ago, President Obama

Internal Dem Polling: BOOM BOOM still ‘Top Donkey’ for NC Dems in 2012 race for Governor

Posted on February 25, 2012February 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Former congressman Bobby “Boom Boom” Etheridge is STILL LEADING in Democrat polls on the NC Governor’s race — even though he has yet to file. The latest Dem internal