At first, legislative leaders — led by Rep. David Lewis — were cheerleading hard for moving North Carolina’s presidential primary from May to March.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:19 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Politicians never cease to amaze me. A few sessions back, I was treated to a barrage of b*tching from various Republican legislators about Skip Stam and Thom Tillis.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 5:16 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Conservatives just helped oust a speaker who was okay with the Wall Street bailout, debt ceiling increases, and amnesty for illegals.
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 4:14 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Heritage Action has updated (as of October 10 their Congressional score cards.
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 3:29 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It appears - according to some email that got sent out today - that Tim and Phil are concerned about how the search for a new UNC president is going.
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2015 @ 11:52 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In 2014, things at NCGOP HQ appeared to be all about Thom. This year, they appear to be all about Pat.
Published: Saturday, October 17th, 2015 @ 6:30 am
By: Brant Clifton
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House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)has dropped out of the race for the Speakership of the House moments before members were set to go behind closed doors to nominate a GOP candidate on the floor.
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 @ 2:13 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Thanks to a grassroots uproar, the whole solar subsidies scam got sideswiped and derailed.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2015 @ 12:11 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We hear a lot of lip service from Republicans in Raleigh about the beauty of the free market.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 4:27 am
By: Brant Clifton
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THAT is the spin being circulated by the establishment in the wake of John Boehner's resignation from Congress.
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 10:51 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Well, they did it. Thumbed their collective noses at those of us who voted to give them super-majorities in Raleigh.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 5:48 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It appears that The N&O's Colin Campbell is competing with Rob Christensen for this year's "Laziest PoS in the Newsroom" title. So far, the competition looks quite,um, heated.
Published: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 @ 4:38 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Well, this ad popped up during the most recent televised GOP presidential debate — making it clear that North Carolina’s Second Congressional District GOP primary will be just as much of a media circus.
Published: Sunday, September 20th, 2015 @ 9:53 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We've heard some tough talk. Everyone is beating their chest getting ready for the upcoming elections.
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 3:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Former judge Paul Wright, who has run unsuccessfully for governor and Congress, has announced he will be challenge incumbent Republican Richard Burr for renomination in 2016.
Published: Friday, September 18th, 2015 @ 5:00 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We expect that the official Conference Report will be ready on Sunday night. Please note that it has to be posted online for it to be read-in on Monday.
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2015 @ 3:12 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Speaker Tim Moore has made it clear that the House caucus will live or die at the hand of Cary's Nelson Dollar. Dollar has been pretty clear that he wants to spend MORE money and will not budge on anything.
Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2015 @ 8:54 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We're not big fans of The Politico around here. In fact, we affectionately refer to it in-house as The PoS-tico.
Published: Tuesday, September 8th, 2015 @ 8:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A guy named George Rouco is turning heads and being heralded as a “primary challenger” to incumbent Charlotte-area congressman Robert Pittenger (R).
Published: Sunday, September 6th, 2015 @ 1:52 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In June, a low-life nutcase loser took a loaded weapon into a church in Charleston, South Carolina and shot the place up. Instead of taking it at face-value as the horrible crime and tragedy it was, the left politicized the hell out of it.
Published: Saturday, September 5th, 2015 @ 10:39 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump have the drive-by media and the professional left in a tizzy over their proposals to end birthright citizenship — the policy that makes children of illegal aliens born in the US legal citizens of the United States.
Published: Monday, August 31st, 2015 @ 10:13 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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If you've ever watched any late-night TV, you've seen the ads for the Ashley Madison web site. It facilitates adultery. It's kind of a Match.com or JDate for married people.
Published: Sunday, August 30th, 2015 @ 5:26 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Just when I think the NC Chamber can't sink any lower, they DO.
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 1:56 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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When you think of community colleges, you tend to think of things like, Offshore-Re-education-Camp-Lesson-6oh, job training and continuing education.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 6:09 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Renee Ellmers is running to and fro trying to convince low-information voters across the Second District that she has been a valiant warrior princess against ObamaCare. Chamber of Commerce
Published: Tuesday, August 25th, 2015 @ 7:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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That noisy bunch of grassroots folks in Widen I-77 have been creating quite a fuss in recent months.
Published: Monday, August 24th, 2015 @ 12:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Walter Jones's primary foes are working hard to paint him as a liberal and a "Pelosi Republican."
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2015 @ 4:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was paid $1.35 million since last May for three speaking engagements for a network marketing company that has been accused of being nothing more than a pyramid scheme.
Published: Sunday, August 16th, 2015 @ 1:06 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We know it’s a major component of the left’s campaign strategy for 2016: demagogue the Confederate flag and make Southern Republicans PROVE they are not racists. It’s a move that would make Big Barry and Saul Alinsky’s rotting corpse proud.
Published: Sunday, August 16th, 2015 @ 12:24 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Todd Poole, who has been executive director of the state's Republican Party for 2 1/2 years, announced Monday he is leaving - regretfully but voluntarily.
Published: Thursday, August 13th, 2015 @ 8:53 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Well, all of you folks who held your nose in the 2014 US Senate race — look at what you got.
Published: Wednesday, August 12th, 2015 @ 4:45 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Folks on Jones Street, who talk to us, say that the Senate has been pitching offers to House leadership on the budget.
Published: Wednesday, August 12th, 2015 @ 2:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We are getting more than our fair share of business - and controversy - from Spain.
Published: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 4:54 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It's astounding. The Central Committee of the North Carolina GOP actually struggled with the idea of whether or not to hire someone as chief fundraiser who is IN BED with a whole lot of leftists and leftist groups.
Published: Friday, August 7th, 2015 @ 12:04 am
By: Brant Clifton
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