Tag: The Pilot

Campaign 2012: Picerno REALLY gets to ‘Meet The Press’

Posted on March 22, 2012April 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

County Commissioner Nick Picerno, as a conservative Republican officeholder, knew coming into the job that he’d be engaging in combat with the mainstream media. I’m sure he

Our local newspaper, printed on dead trees, condemns Republicans for tree murder

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Our Nobel Prize-winning local paper — owned and operated by the same folks who, for over a century, owned and operated The N&O

GOP legislators seek business POV; Dems & Media cry FOUL

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Boy, it really turns my world upside down to see something published by The N&O staff complaining about not including both sides of a story. Until recently, I thought “fracking”

Regulating Mother Nature

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Nothing coming out of Washington surprises me anymore. Thanks to our thrice weekly Pulitzer Prize winning local paper here in Moore County, I learned that the EPA

The Pilot parrots state Dem talking points …

Posted on November 4, 2011November 4, 2011 by Brant Clifton

It is ASTOUNDING how much the staff editorials in our thrice-weekly Pulitzer Prize-winning local paper mirror the rhetoric on MSNBC and the spin of the state

Campaign 2011: Inside The Pilot’s endorsement deliberations

Posted on October 15, 2011October 15, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Yes, Moore County. Our thrice-weekly Pulitzer Prize winning local newspaper is in the midst of preparing its endorsements for the municipal elections in November. The paper’s editorial staff has

Auditing Mr. Bouser on Internet sales taxes

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The Pilot, our local newspaper, runs unsigned staff editorials in each edition — much like many other papers across the country. (Steve Bouser, The Pilot’s nearly-retired editor, writes most all

An economics lesson for Nick Picerno

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Brant Clifton

I read the item in today’s Pilot about County Commissioner Nick Picerno’s concern about gas prices in Moore County with one part amusement and one part dismay: Nick Picerno wants

When all else fails, blame “the rich”

Posted on September 27, 2011September 27, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Big government liberalism is failing spectacularly under the watch of BarryO, and leftists are apoplectic. How can this be? Government can fix ANYTHING! When numbers come out showing

Attacking others’ success to distract from Barry-O’s failures

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Has anyone else noticed the hard left turn of the Democrats’ rhetoric recently? They’re panicking. Their big government, redistributionist policies are pushing the country into a bigger, deeper economic