Tag: spending

South Carolina state government politics: a peek into NC’s future?

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Brant Clifton

A lot of GOP activists in North Carolina are talking about how great it will be to have a Republican governor AND legislature in Raleigh after 2012. Well,

GOP-controlled U.S. House: more debt in 15 months than in ALL of the first 97 Congresses COMBINED

Posted on June 4, 2012June 4, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It took nearly 200 years for previous Congresses to do what John Boehner, Eric Cantor and the rest of the Honorables have managed to do in 15

Pants on Fire: What are you cutting, Renee?

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson is talking to Renee Ellmers again. In today’s Raleigh News & Observer, congresswoman Ellmers speaks up in support of her boss John

STILL waiting on those federal spending cuts

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

You gotta love Congressman Allen West (R-FL). Love him because the mainstream media and the DC establishment HATE him. He says what needs to be said, and he backs up

The NCGA GOP spending machine keeps rolling on ….

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We’re being told that those mean ol’ legislative Republicans on Jones Street are trying to bleed public education dry. Au Contraire, mes amis. Check out this

Raise taxes on us? How about getting Bev to DO HER JOB FIRST????

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Our Nobel Prize-winning, Pulitzer prize-contending local paper here in Moore County is at it again — parroting the leftist views of its owners and making their

Strings Attached: How State Lawmakers Invite Federal Control

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The South Carolina Policy Council, a free-market oriented think tank based in The Palmetto State, does yeoman’s work in the thankless task of trying to keep

Senator DeMint: We are STILL not cutting.

Posted on November 8, 2011November 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

For those of us active in The Tea Party, who thought we really brought change to Washington in November 2010, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint’s (R-SC) article in National

Two great weapons for debating economics with lefties

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Brant Clifton

I’ve stumbled across two great resources — both available for free online — that provide great info, in layman’s terms, for defending capitalism and the free

If you talk the talk, you better walk the walk

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Brant Clifton

I hate to say it, but I am leaning toward the N&O on this one. During the 2010 campaign, U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-Dunn) attacked her opponent, then-incumbent