Tag: North Carolina

#NCGA: Drive-by disagreement on GOP “chaos”

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Brant Clifton

In this morning’s dispatch from Low-T state HQ, the shih-tzu is lamenting this “never-ending session” of the North Carolina General Assembly. I am sure the fact that the session has

Is moving left politically REALLY “Kinder and Gentler?”

Posted on August 3, 2014August 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

My political life tracks back to the 1988 Bush-Quayle campaign. That’s where I cut my teeth in this game. I was attracted to Bush because of his ties to my

#NCGA: Drive-by Binky rankled by big govt? Seriously?

Posted on August 2, 2014August 2, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Rankled. If the drive-bys can use that word and play that card, then — by God — so can I. WRAL’s ace cub reporter (and lunch-fetcher for Miz Leslie) Binky is

#NCGA: GOP House member laments his party’s back-track, retreat on tax policy

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Every once in a while we’re blessed with a lone voice of common sense, out in the wilderness, trying to inject some common sense into the nonsense that is the

#NCSEN: ANOTHER poll (this time from conservatives) showing slim Hagan lead

Posted on August 1, 2014August 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Human Events, a longtime flagship publication of the American conservative movement, has partnered with Gravis Marketing to take the political temperature in The Tar Heel State. They conducted a poll of

#NCSEN: Tillis goes Hollywood, backs $40 million in additional state incentives for film industry

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Brant Clifton

During the recently-completed GOP primary for US Senate, speaker Thom Tillis told a fundraiser crowd in Wilmington he favored the retention of state incentives for studios shooting movies and TV

#NCSEN: Paying people to stay home with the kids?

Posted on July 31, 2014July 31, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Kay Hagan thinks businesses should be mandated to provide PAID leave to employees to deal with family concerns like childbirth or sick children. On the face of it, that

Feds dumping border-crossing kids in the Carolinas

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Department of Homeland Security is pretty much ignoring the flood of illegals pouring across our southern border. But they have PLENTY of time and manpower to go raid the

Heritage Action: Meadows top conservative for NC, Duncan on top for SC

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Heritage Action has updated their conservatism rankings for the current session of Congress. There HAS been some shakeup in the North Carolina delegation. For the current 113th Congress (2013-2014) ,

#NCSEN: The Longleaf Pine PAC (Kay’s slush fund?)