Tag: Raleigh

They came. They saw. They overrode.

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Low-level staffers in the governor’s office are likely scrambling today to ID the truck that ran over their boss lady — THREE TIMES — this week.

Southern Pines Pilot newspaper owner on invite list for Dalton fundraiser

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Democrat gubernatorial nominee Walter Dalton has a fundraiser scheduled in Raleigh on Tuesday that includes a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of the state’s Democrat establishment. (Speaking of the

Have we lost The John Locke Foundation?

Posted on June 14, 2012October 20, 2016 by Brant Clifton

The Raleigh-based John Locke Foundation has, for years, positioned itself as Ground Zero for conservative and libertarian thought in North Carolina. For years, we on The Right have

Waiting for Team Tillis to stand up and fight

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It is hard to understand the squeamishness on the part of Speaker Thom & the House leadership in today’s N&O re: voter id. Speaker Tillis and Rep. David Lewis say

As The Budget Busts: the expensive soap opera being rolled out by Jones Street studios

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We had a GOP takeover of the General Assembly which showed promise of introducing fiscal sanity to state government. The 2011 budget debate had leftists hollering about mean old

Carolina Journal: Room for improvement in NC House budget proposal

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Analysts with Raleigh’s John Locke Foundation say there are plenty of good things in the state budget proposal currently moving through state legislative chambers, but caution that conservatives

L’affaire LaRoque: C’est fini?

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Well, it appears embattled Republican legislator and state House Rules Committee chairman Stephen LaRoque is DONE. The recount in his apparent May 8th loss to challenger John Bell confirmed that

Civitas: What Belt Tightening?

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

It’s election time. The honorables on the right side of the aisle on Jones Street are running around telling us how conservative and careful they’ve been with the people’s money.

Fiddling while the state’s economy burns

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The honorables on Jones Street are in full campaign mode, engaging in some serious political theater. We’ve got a record number of people out of work, and an obscenely high

Ex-members of Team Thom hit jackpot on way out the door

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Hmmmm. Severance pay for resigning from your job. That’s a new one. But they’re always breaking new ground, or looking to do so, on Jones