The Daily Haymaker Guest Editorial
Our GUY IN CHARGE - editor and publisher Brant Clifton - has marched to the beat of a different drum from very early in life. The grandson of a Democrat party machine boss, Mr. Clifton registered Republican at 18 and campaigned for Ronald Reagan and George Bush. He worked for the late U.S. Senator Jesse Helms in Washington during and right after college.
Mr. Clifton took on the liberal media as an analyst with The Media Research Center, then jumped into a lengthy career with the "drive-by media". His work has appeared in local newspapers in The Carolinas. He has done on-camera work for ABC's Good Morning America, and print work for national publications such as US News & World Report and People magazine. Mr. Clifton has also worked as a correspondent for AP, UPI, Reuters and Agence France Presse.
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American Hustle is not just lighting up the movie screens. It's playing out on Capitol Hill as well.
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American Hustle is not just lighting up the movie screens. It's playing out on Capitol Hill as well.
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Thom Tillis and Harold Brubaker have quite a special political bond. They are the only two Republican speakers of the North Carolina House since Reconstruction.
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Thom Tillis and Harold Brubaker have quite a special political bond. They are the only two Republican speakers of the North Carolina House since Reconstruction.
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Republican leaders in Raleigh are hoping to make political gains by getting behind Gov. Pat McCrory's call for a teacher pay raise:
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Republican leaders in Raleigh are hoping to make political gains by getting behind Gov. Pat McCrory's call for a teacher pay raise:
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Why release hypothetical November matchup results when filing hasn't started and we still have a May primary election?
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Why release hypothetical November matchup results when filing hasn't started and we still have a May primary election?
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State House speaker and US Senate candidate Thom Tillis has been catching some flak from GOP activists — and finally from the mainstream media — for skipping out on candidate debates in the GOP primary race.
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State House speaker and US Senate candidate Thom Tillis has been catching some flak from GOP activists — and finally from the mainstream media — for skipping out on candidate debates in the GOP primary race.
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Seriously. That's how the BarryO fan club is defending their pet monster against accusations, and a CBO report, suggesting that it will kill jobs by the millions.
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Seriously. That's how the BarryO fan club is defending their pet monster against accusations, and a CBO report, suggesting that it will kill jobs by the millions.
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Renee Ellmers has been proud of her ties to House leadership. She once slipped up - I think - in a conversation with me, referring to House Speaker John Boehner as her "boss."
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Renee Ellmers has been proud of her ties to House leadership. She once slipped up - I think - in a conversation with me, referring to House Speaker John Boehner as her "boss."
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The Congressional Budget Office - long the target of much love and affection by liberals and mainstream media types - is now feeling their wrath.
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The Congressional Budget Office - long the target of much love and affection by liberals and mainstream media types - is now feeling their wrath.
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Women in this country put in 100% of the work that men do - but get paid only 77 cents for every dollar a man receives.
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Women in this country put in 100% of the work that men do - but get paid only 77 cents for every dollar a man receives.
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A leading Republican state senator issued an apology Tuesday for his remarks skewering Gov. Pat McCrory, first lady Ann McCrory and lawmakers in a private meeting about legislation to regulate puppy mills.
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A leading Republican state senator issued an apology Tuesday for his remarks skewering Gov. Pat McCrory, first lady Ann McCrory and lawmakers in a private meeting about legislation to regulate puppy mills.
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Former Charlotte TV news anchor and radio talk show host Vince Coakley announced Tuesday that he plans to run as a Republican for the 12th congressional district seat vacated by quasi-Marxist race pimp Mel Watt.
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Former Charlotte TV news anchor and radio talk show host Vince Coakley announced Tuesday that he plans to run as a Republican for the 12th congressional district seat vacated by quasi-Marxist race pimp Mel Watt.
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The media and The Moral Monday crowd like to paint the GOP majority in Raleigh as a juggernaut working in sync to ram through a conservative agenda.
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The media and The Moral Monday crowd like to paint the GOP majority in Raleigh as a juggernaut working in sync to ram through a conservative agenda.
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State GOP vice-chairman Joyce Krawiec's appointment to an unexpired state Senate seat from Forsythe County has created a job vacancy within the party hierarchy.
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State GOP vice-chairman Joyce Krawiec's appointment to an unexpired state Senate seat from Forsythe County has created a job vacancy within the party hierarchy.
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Establishment folks are browbeating those of us in the grassroots to toe the party line. Send Kay Hagan home. That's what's important. Even if you have to hold your nose to do it.
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Establishment folks are browbeating those of us in the grassroots to toe the party line. Send Kay Hagan home. That's what's important. Even if you have to hold your nose to do it.
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Apparently, our esteemed state attorney general learned NOTHING from the Duke lacrosse case.
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Apparently, our esteemed state attorney general learned NOTHING from the Duke lacrosse case.
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We get a lot of lip service from lefties about the importance of respecting minorities and the minority opinion.
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We get a lot of lip service from lefties about the importance of respecting minorities and the minority opinion.
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The mainstream media and the political establishment are trying to tell us that state House speaker Thom Tillis is all but nominated to take on Kay Hagan in November. Public Policy Polling has been tracking the race.
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The mainstream media and the political establishment are trying to tell us that state House speaker Thom Tillis is all but nominated to take on Kay Hagan in November. Public Policy Polling has been tracking the race.
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A reader forwarded to us an email conversation they had with NCGOP chairman Claude Pope. (Of course, we came up.)
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A reader forwarded to us an email conversation they had with NCGOP chairman Claude Pope. (Of course, we came up.)
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We've already raised questions about Speaker Thom, his movie contributions, the beer distributor bucks, and his ties to a certain well-connected Massachusetts law firm.
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We've already raised questions about Speaker Thom, his movie contributions, the beer distributor bucks, and his ties to a certain well-connected Massachusetts law firm.
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Well, being the southern gentlemen we are here, we thought we'd take a moment to help out our state's junior US senator in this area.
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Well, being the southern gentlemen we are here, we thought we'd take a moment to help out our state's junior US senator in this area.
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Yep. *The civil rights movement sure has come a long way.* Tim Scott, a black South Carolinian whose life epitomizes what MLK was talking about in his famous 1963 speech, is being attacked by one of the alleged heirs of King's legacy.
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Yep. *The civil rights movement sure has come a long way.* Tim Scott, a black South Carolinian whose life epitomizes what MLK was talking about in his famous 1963 speech, is being attacked by one of the alleged heirs of King's legacy.
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Teacher pay and other education spending are supposed to dominate the upcoming short session at the General Assembly.
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Teacher pay and other education spending are supposed to dominate the upcoming short session at the General Assembly.
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Open up your wallets, folks. It's official. The North Carolina Department of Revenue will start getting a cut of your purchases from Amazon.com starting February 1.
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Open up your wallets, folks. It's official. The North Carolina Department of Revenue will start getting a cut of your purchases from Amazon.com starting February 1.
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Carter Wrenn - Richard Morgan's pre-weight loss doppelganger - has surfaced like Captain Ahab's white whale to do a wee bit of the GOP establishment's dirty work in a post on his low-traffic, lightly-read web site
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Carter Wrenn - Richard Morgan's pre-weight loss doppelganger - has surfaced like Captain Ahab's white whale to do a wee bit of the GOP establishment's dirty work in a post on his low-traffic, lightly-read web site
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I went back in the Google time machine and found some comments from GOP leaders shortly after the Tea Party put them back in charge of the US House of Representatives.
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I went back in the Google time machine and found some comments from GOP leaders shortly after the Tea Party put them back in charge of the US House of Representatives.
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Every day I come across more evidence that we have too frickin' many lawyers gracing the surface of our beautiful planet and using up valuable oxygen.
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Every day I come across more evidence that we have too frickin' many lawyers gracing the surface of our beautiful planet and using up valuable oxygen.
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We told you the other day about the outrageous behavior of the Rocky Mount City Council.
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We told you the other day about the outrageous behavior of the Rocky Mount City Council.
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McCrory previewed his legislative agenda in a speech at the Hunt Institute's Holshouserhmc Legislators Retreat on Monday night, though he did not provide specific policy plans.
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McCrory previewed his legislative agenda in a speech at the Hunt Institute's Holshouserhmc Legislators Retreat on Monday night, though he did not provide specific policy plans.
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When I first heard about what happened Monday night in Rocky Mount, I couldn't believe it. A reader from the Rocky Mount area tipped me off to an incident at that night's city council meeting. He directed me to this video, which details it in all its, um, glory.
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When I first heard about what happened Monday night in Rocky Mount, I couldn't believe it. A reader from the Rocky Mount area tipped me off to an incident at that night's city council meeting. He directed me to this video, which details it in all its, um, glory.
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We posted here about an NCGOP establishment vs. grassroots spat in Haywood County. There have been previous issues in Beaufort, Craven, Davidson and Gates counties.
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We posted here about an NCGOP establishment vs. grassroots spat in Haywood County. There have been previous issues in Beaufort, Craven, Davidson and Gates counties.
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We're in the middle of the primary election season. These times are all about internal debates / discussions between party members as they chart the direction of and craft an agenda for their parties.
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We're in the middle of the primary election season. These times are all about internal debates / discussions between party members as they chart the direction of and craft an agenda for their parties.
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I am sure there is quite a bit of giggling in faculty lounges about the latest reports on UNC athletics. A former academic advisor to Carolina athletes is alleging that there are many players who read at a 4th to 8th grade level, and that at least one former basketball player could not even read.
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I am sure there is quite a bit of giggling in faculty lounges about the latest reports on UNC athletics. A former academic advisor to Carolina athletes is alleging that there are many players who read at a 4th to 8th grade level, and that at least one former basketball player could not even read.
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Tea Partiers and other grassroots limited government types have been disappointed time and again by the Republican leaders on Capitol Hill they elected and elevated in 2010 and 2012.
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Tea Partiers and other grassroots limited government types have been disappointed time and again by the Republican leaders on Capitol Hill they elected and elevated in 2010 and 2012.
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The liars in the remnants of our state's mainstream media would have you believe state government was working like a charm prior to the January 2013 inauguration of Republican governor Pat McCrory.
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The liars in the remnants of our state's mainstream media would have you believe state government was working like a charm prior to the January 2013 inauguration of Republican governor Pat McCrory.
