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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Our sources in the lower chamber on Jones Street tell us that the vote on the gas tax hike / "revenue stabilization" nonsense that passed the GOP-dominated Senate with flying colors will face much more drama in the House.
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Our sources in the lower chamber on Jones Street tell us that the vote on the gas tax hike / "revenue stabilization" nonsense that passed the GOP-dominated Senate with flying colors will face much more drama in the House.
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The “conservative revolution” in Raleigh is telling us the state is so cash-poor that it can’t afford some vital road repairs and construction.
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The “conservative revolution” in Raleigh is telling us the state is so cash-poor that it can’t afford some vital road repairs and construction.
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It is really interesting to see and hear all of these people who have badmouthed our military through every operation - dating back to Vietnam - beating the drums to go to war against ISIS / ISIL.
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It is really interesting to see and hear all of these people who have badmouthed our military through every operation - dating back to Vietnam - beating the drums to go to war against ISIS / ISIL.
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Dana Cope has stepped on some powerful toes during his tenure as head of the state employees union here in North Carolina. Most of them have been on the starboard side of the political spectrum.
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Dana Cope has stepped on some powerful toes during his tenure as head of the state employees union here in North Carolina. Most of them have been on the starboard side of the political spectrum.
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It hit like a ton of bricks when I got the news alert on my phone this morning regarding the passing of Coach Dean Smith.
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It hit like a ton of bricks when I got the news alert on my phone this morning regarding the passing of Coach Dean Smith.
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The drive-bys are telling us that the medical school at East Carolina is in deep trouble.
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The drive-bys are telling us that the medical school at East Carolina is in deep trouble.
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Democrats have, for decades, made mincemeat out of GOP nominees simply because they disagreed with them.
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Democrats have, for decades, made mincemeat out of GOP nominees simply because they disagreed with them.
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President Obama's most recent budget makes it clear, the Wall Street Journal says, that while Republicans need his signature "to arrest America's coming fiscal crackup," they're "unlikely to get even the back of his hand."
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President Obama's most recent budget makes it clear, the Wall Street Journal says, that while Republicans need his signature "to arrest America's coming fiscal crackup," they're "unlikely to get even the back of his hand."
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Extraterritorial jurisdictions have been a source of controversy for years. Muncipal leaders and their advocates LOVE them. They gain influence over territory and residents who can't even vote for them.
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Extraterritorial jurisdictions have been a source of controversy for years. Muncipal leaders and their advocates LOVE them. They gain influence over territory and residents who can't even vote for them.
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We've provided extensive coverage of the political drama around the state Sea Level Rise (SLR) panel and its revision - mandated by the GOP majority in the legislature - of the projected sea level rise on the North Carolina coast.
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We've provided extensive coverage of the political drama around the state Sea Level Rise (SLR) panel and its revision - mandated by the GOP majority in the legislature - of the projected sea level rise on the North Carolina coast.
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Yep. One has been founded on Capitol Hill. The founding group includes NINE Republican House members - with Mark Meadows (NC) and Mick Mulvaney (SC) being the only members from The Carolinas.
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Yep. One has been founded on Capitol Hill. The founding group includes NINE Republican House members - with Mark Meadows (NC) and Mick Mulvaney (SC) being the only members from The Carolinas.
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BarryO has decided he wants to give everybody a free ride through community college. Heck. His radical overhaul of healthcare has worked *so well.* Why not meddle here?
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BarryO has decided he wants to give everybody a free ride through community college. Heck. His radical overhaul of healthcare has worked *so well.* Why not meddle here?
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Renee Ellmers (Ellmers for Congress)Salon's Joan Walsh leaped into the breach today to defend the honor of our very own Big GovtBarbie.
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Renee Ellmers (Ellmers for Congress)Salon's Joan Walsh leaped into the breach today to defend the honor of our very own Big GovtBarbie.
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Frustration with the rising cost of health care gave politicians the ammo they needed to hang this ObamaCare monstrosity around our necks.
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Frustration with the rising cost of health care gave politicians the ammo they needed to hang this ObamaCare monstrosity around our necks.
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I am sure many of you rushed home last night, cleared your schedule, and camped out in front of the TV awaiting breathlessly the latest pronouncements of our Dear Leader.
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I am sure many of you rushed home last night, cleared your schedule, and camped out in front of the TV awaiting breathlessly the latest pronouncements of our Dear Leader.
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Paul Tine is now unaffiliated. UN-A-FFIL-I-ATED. Rest easy. Sleep well. Go on about your business. He's courageously gone off all by himself (favoring ObamaCare, opposing school choice, but caucusing with the GOP).
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Paul Tine is now unaffiliated. UN-A-FFIL-I-ATED. Rest easy. Sleep well. Go on about your business. He's courageously gone off all by himself (favoring ObamaCare, opposing school choice, but caucusing with the GOP).
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Renee Ellmers is shedding those issue positions and campaign promises like a snake sheds its skin.
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Renee Ellmers is shedding those issue positions and campaign promises like a snake sheds its skin.
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There was a big hulaballoo about a Democrat legislator from Dare County leaving his party to register unaffiliated. On January 9, Paul Tine was admitted to the House GOP caucus.
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There was a big hulaballoo about a Democrat legislator from Dare County leaving his party to register unaffiliated. On January 9, Paul Tine was admitted to the House GOP caucus.
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the honorables - and, in some cases, we are using that term veeeeeeeerrrrrry loosely - are back in town ready to run your life and spend your money.
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the honorables - and, in some cases, we are using that term veeeeeeeerrrrrry loosely - are back in town ready to run your life and spend your money.
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A Democrat named Arthur Williams represented the Outer Banks-centered Sixth District in the North Carolina House from 2003-2011. During that time, he was a good Democrat — a good soldier for then Senate boss Marc Basnight and then-House speaker Jim Black.
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A Democrat named Arthur Williams represented the Outer Banks-centered Sixth District in the North Carolina House from 2003-2011. During that time, he was a good Democrat — a good soldier for then Senate boss Marc Basnight and then-House speaker Jim Black.
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Incoming House majority leader Mike Hager is trying to open up the decision making process in the General Assembly's lower chamber.
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Incoming House majority leader Mike Hager is trying to open up the decision making process in the General Assembly's lower chamber.
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I got a call yesterday from someone - very familiar with the inner workings of the state House Republican Caucus - who had just read my item on Democrat Paul Tine's departure from the Democrat Caucus.
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I got a call yesterday from someone - very familiar with the inner workings of the state House Republican Caucus - who had just read my item on Democrat Paul Tine's departure from the Democrat Caucus.
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Watch your wallets. The dawn of the new year signals the return of the leeches and other assorted parasites to Capitol Hill. Be on the lookout for brand new ways for "getting something done" with someone else's money.
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Watch your wallets. The dawn of the new year signals the return of the leeches and other assorted parasites to Capitol Hill. Be on the lookout for brand new ways for "getting something done" with someone else's money.
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In the wake of the CRomnibus travesty, we got hit with a lot of spin from go-along, get-along Republicans: illegal-aliens-vote-democratNo money has been approved for implementation of amnesty.
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In the wake of the CRomnibus travesty, we got hit with a lot of spin from go-along, get-along Republicans: illegal-aliens-vote-democratNo money has been approved for implementation of amnesty.
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Blinkin' Chris Fitzsimon and his partner-in-crime Scowlin' Rob Schofield recently lead a chorus of drive-bys in needling State senate president Phil Berger about alleged public school money woes in his home county of Rockingham.
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Blinkin' Chris Fitzsimon and his partner-in-crime Scowlin' Rob Schofield recently lead a chorus of drive-bys in needling State senate president Phil Berger about alleged public school money woes in his home county of Rockingham.
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It's created a huge economic boom in the Dakotas. Environmentalists want you to believe it will poison your children and kill your ability to have children. In any case, fracking is revolutionizing the energy industry. It's giving our economy a much needed boost.
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It's created a huge economic boom in the Dakotas. Environmentalists want you to believe it will poison your children and kill your ability to have children. In any case, fracking is revolutionizing the energy industry. It's giving our economy a much needed boost.
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Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and William “The Round Rev” Barber have all made a name for themselves by getting in the media and claiming that (1) whitey is keeping the brothers and sisters down, and (2) they, themselves, ARE down with “the struggle.”
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Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and William “The Round Rev” Barber have all made a name for themselves by getting in the media and claiming that (1) whitey is keeping the brothers and sisters down, and (2) they, themselves, ARE down with “the struggle.”
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No, we’re not talking about The Coal Miner’s Daughter. We’re talking about the low-key New York prosecutor nominated by BarryO to replace the godawful, horrific Eric Holder as US Attorney General.
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No, we’re not talking about The Coal Miner’s Daughter. We’re talking about the low-key New York prosecutor nominated by BarryO to replace the godawful, horrific Eric Holder as US Attorney General.
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Reagan biographer and Human Events editor John Hayward has summed up the recently completed CRomnibus fight in Congress nicely.
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Reagan biographer and Human Events editor John Hayward has summed up the recently completed CRomnibus fight in Congress nicely.
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Are you frustrated with the current state of the NCGOP? Start organizing your like-minded friends to take over — or at least build a sizeable contingent within — your precinct and your county party organization.
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Are you frustrated with the current state of the NCGOP? Start organizing your like-minded friends to take over — or at least build a sizeable contingent within — your precinct and your county party organization.
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News of the senseless, tragic ambush murders of two NYPD officers is reverberating across the country.
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News of the senseless, tragic ambush murders of two NYPD officers is reverberating across the country.
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The drive-by media across The Carolinas was ga-ga this morning about a story regarding "payouts download (7)from a lender" to Gov. Pat McCrory (R-NC) and congressman Mark Sanford (R-SC).
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The drive-by media across The Carolinas was ga-ga this morning about a story regarding "payouts download (7)from a lender" to Gov. Pat McCrory (R-NC) and congressman Mark Sanford (R-SC).
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US Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-5) is making use of the cromnibus talking points disseminated by Boehner & co.
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US Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-5) is making use of the cromnibus talking points disseminated by Boehner & co.
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It added to our already out-of-control federal debt. It’s fully funded ObamaCare and amnesty.
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It added to our already out-of-control federal debt. It’s fully funded ObamaCare and amnesty.
