Tag: politics

Governor, your Chapel Hill is showing.

Posted on September 15, 2026 by Brant Clifton

Many of us love Chapel Hill for the great college basketball and football memories. But beyond that, the town offers us little more than America-cursing dirty hippies and pompous Yankee

Campaign 2026 new polls: Davis up SEVEN, Cooper up SIX

Posted on September 14, 2026 by Brant Clifton

We’re here in campaign crunch time. Voting is about to start. Pollsters tend to shift their strategies about this time. Many pollsters tend to shape their surveys to benefit whomever

Harvey West: I TRIED to warn Whatley, NCGOP

Posted on September 12, 2026September 12, 2026 by Brant Clifton

The US Senate campaigns in North Carolina are busily running criminal background checks on everyone who appears (or who has appeared) within a radius of 20 feet of either of

ANOTHER sex offender ???

Posted on September 12, 2026 by Brant Clifton

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzz. This year’s US Senate race has sadly evolved into a morbid, disturbing game of ‘Sex Offender poker.’ The game got rolling with a whole lot of publicity about Mike

Audit: State lottery not meeting $$$ targets for schools (despite sales increases)

Posted on September 11, 2026 by Brant Clifton

The state lottery got sold to us – at its creation – as The Education Lottery. Advertising still hits us with that spin. Play the lottery and help the rugrats

STATE $$$$ for FED prosecutors ???

Posted on September 11, 2026September 11, 2026 by Brant Clifton

I’ve never heard of such a thing. How can the General Assembly possibly have jurisdiction here? Super sleuth Dan Kane is on the case: Since 2023, state lawmakers have been

Whatley speaks on TV. NEW polls show leads of EIGHT and ELEVEN for Cooper.

Posted on September 11, 2026September 11, 2026 by Brant Clifton

Yes, folks. Miss Sophie Cunningham (pictured) is pointing at all of you who told us *unwashed conservatives* to not waste our time on a primary. *Michael Whatley is the only

Socialism. Why so afraid? (Psst — it’s ALREADY here. It’s BEEN here.)

Posted on September 7, 2026September 7, 2026 by Brant Clifton

With kooks calling themselves “social democrats” winning elections in well-known kooky places across the country, the alarm is being sounded. The hammer-and-sickle is coming for us all. (*Buckle up.*) As

Roy Cooper: The next Bill Clinton? (or John Edwards ???)

Posted on September 6, 2026September 7, 2026 by Brant Clifton

The current state of our US Senate race has national figures in both party establishments swooning over Roy Cooper. He’s projecting a “moderate” image, we’re told. He’s a southerner, we’re

Hey, it could be worse. (Um, couldn’t it?)

Posted on September 1, 2026 by Brant Clifton

It all started with a Thom Tillis vendetta. Now it appears to be ending with some crying in the Harris-Teeter and a public shaming on the House floor. It all