Tag: North Carolina

A sensible move on teacher licensing

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Over on Jones Street, legislators are reforming teacher licensure so that the process and end-product play a less important role in staffing our schools. Of course, the educrats — the

Elon & DOGE set to target ‘strangely wealthy’ congress-critters

Posted on April 6, 2025April 7, 2025 by Brant Clifton

THAT should get the attention of North Carolina’s own David Rouzer. President Trump’s very own DOGE-meister Elon Musk has informed the world that his team is planning to look really

National leftist rent-a-mob targeting NC / Moore County on April 5

Posted on March 30, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It’s a tried-and-true formula for the professional left: organize protests all over the country, import some paid troublemakers, and sprinkle in a handful of local useful idiots. Voilà! There you

THIS Budd’s for — BERGER ?????

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Brant Clifton

That’s right. Our junior US senator is trying his hardest to bleed away every last bit of political capital he has. I’ve run into so many people who characterize Ted

Judge: Team Berger cannot have TIMMY’s judge pal handle their case. (Uncle Phil is NOT pleased.)

Posted on March 25, 2025March 25, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Occasionally, we encounter instances where the powerful DO NOT get their way. We’ve told you about a Rockingham County political candidate who filed a defamation complaint in Wake County against

Everybody may love RAYMOND. But, Thom Tillis? (Not so much.)

Posted on March 20, 2025March 20, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It appears Senate Republican leader John Thune is sick of him. President Donald Trump is fed up. Now it appears that nearly HALF of North Carolina’s Republicans in the US

How sausage gets made at The N&O

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Things have been a wee bit tough over in the sparsely-populated N&O newsroom. McClatchy paid waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much for this rag to the people who now own our local paper.

A Berger-spawned RINO roars, thumbs his nose at the base. (Uncle Phil is pleased.)

Posted on March 10, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Recent alums of Phil Berger’s legislative staff are now calling the shots in the state auditor’s office. We’ve all witnessed the havoc Berger’s Jones Street team has played with conservative

#NCSEN26: Tillis tangling w/ Vance, Trump political teams

Posted on March 7, 2025March 7, 2025 by Brant Clifton

He’s won two US Senate races by the hair of his chinny-chin-chin. He’s never seen 50 percent of the vote against a Democrat Senate candidate, but somehow — based on

The SCC Files: College defying Trump on DEI

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The shot-callers at Sandhils Community College have already made it pretty clear about the lack of respect they have for the people whose money keeps the doors open over there.