Tag: Roy Cooper

State of The State silliness

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

I know I’m a little late getting to this. (But here I am.) Our silly governor’s state of the state speech is important to folks living and working between Jones

BOHICA: Medicaid expansion zooming toward reality in Raleigh

Posted on February 14, 2023 by Brant Clifton

*So, THIS is what a Republican majority in The General Assembly gets you these days.* “Parental Rights” is getting slow-walked along Jones Street, but putting everybody under the wasteful, fraud-infested

Cooper, Truitt united by MARRIAGE

Posted on January 6, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It appears that our Democrat governor and our Republican DPI superintendent are getting their education policy advice from the SAME Triangle-area household. Commentators lament the existence in DC of “The

Gov. Doofus b****es at Duke Power about mess HE made

Posted on December 28, 2022 by Brant Clifton

It must be good to have the news media fawning over every word you speak, and to never be held accountable for the words — no matter how nonsensical or

Roy’s Wacky WOKE world

Posted on November 27, 2022 by Brant Clifton

You would tend to expect bizarre wacky leftist things from Roy’s World, aka The Executive Branch in Raleigh. But take a gander at what the state government’s HR office is

The Emperor’s — um, GOVERNOR’S New Clothes

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Just like that monarch in the Hans Christian Anderson story, Roy Cooper’s ego is in high gear. His admirers won’t admit that he’s an unaccomplished blowhard attempting to cruise

Libertarians LOVE Roy.

Posted on October 18, 2022 by Brant Clifton

The Cato Institute has long been the intellectual face of the libertarian political movement. I, like many conservatives, have had some sympathies for them — given their many limited government

Roy WHO ???

Posted on October 9, 2022 by Brant Clifton

I remember back in 2013 or so when ABC11 in Durham did a *cute* little man-on-the-street piece on how people could not recognize Dan Forest when they saw him.

The Original do-nuthin’ AG rushes to the defense of the current one

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Brant Clifton

In Raleigh, and in politics itself, lies are all over the place — like pieces of pine straw in Pinehurst. (Countless in number.) Think about how unlucky (or pathetic

No shame. NONE.

Posted on July 16, 2022July 16, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Our soon-to-be senior senator is taking governor Roy Cooper to task for being, um, *soft*, on illegal immigration. (Seriously? Seriously.): North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis criticized Gov. Roy