Tag: politics

The rise of Speaker Pee Wee

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Brant Clifton

I swear. You can hear the last gasps of life coming from MAGA and the remnants of the Tea Party. Our leaders are abandoning ship and surrendering to the swamp

New maps have Moore, Cotham looking good for congressional runs

Posted on October 18, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Told ya. Told ya. Told ya. The drive-bys have noticed how, um, friendly the new congressional district maps released today by the legislature look for state Rep. Tricia Cotham and

Salisbury’s Graham to join the rapidly-expanding GOP field for governor

Posted on October 18, 2023October 18, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Soem deep pockets out of Rowan County are diving into the GOP primary for governor that Mark Robinson supposedly already has in-the-bag: The Republican candidate field for governor in 2024

Report: UNC Health “LIED” about child sex change clinics

Posted on October 17, 2023 by Brant Clifton

NC’s Education First Alliance has been all over the story about state-funded universities and their hospitals providing sex-change services to minor children. Their reporting helped get some important legislation passed

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more exasperating, here comes THOM.

Posted on October 17, 2023 by Brant Clifton

He’s always turning up, like a bad penny. The drive-bys can ALWAYS count on our senior US senator to offer up something negative about conservative politicians or policies. Thom Tillis

REAL hate speech.

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Many of us on the right have become accustomed to slanderous “hate” accusations. Red MAGA hats? White supremacy. Votes for Donald Trump? White supremacy. Believe genders are neither assigned nor

ACTING GUV, and NOT antisemite. (Told ya this would be ‘special.’)

Posted on October 12, 2023 by Brant Clifton

The ACTING governor asks that you PAY NO ATTENTION to his extensive social media history. (Or, for that matter, his family business.) Finally, we all got a peek at this

Republicans. For. Ukraine.

Posted on October 12, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Apparently, there are a lot of Republican folks who think we need to throw even more of that Monopoly money-that-we-don’t-have into that black hole called The Ukraine. If you weren’t

Home Alone: ‘Big Mark’ to mind the house while The Guv flies THE ‘COOP’

Posted on October 11, 2023October 11, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Hopefully, nothing math-related will come up while ‘Big Mark’ is in charge: L.t Gov. Mark Robinson announced a mystery event, to be held Thursday, where he’ll serve as acting governor

The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Too Sleazy for DC but Okey-dokey for Pinehurst? (Also, has Barb been ‘Heintzed’?)

Posted on October 10, 2023October 11, 2023 by Brant Clifton

As Election Day creeps closer, ‘Parachute Pat’ Pizzella is EVERYWHERE. He showed up in town about eight months prior to the 2021 election, and got installed in village government by