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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Why bother having elections? We have these unelected law school graduates in black robes regularly stomping all over the will of the people and their elected officials.
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Why bother having elections? We have these unelected law school graduates in black robes regularly stomping all over the will of the people and their elected officials.
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While Gov. Pat McCrory tucks tail and runs, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest is sticking to his guns and standing up FOR the folks he represents.
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While Gov. Pat McCrory tucks tail and runs, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest is sticking to his guns and standing up FOR the folks he represents.
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I liked the format of Thursday's debate much better than the previous two. It allowed for more of a give-and-take between the candidates.
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I liked the format of Thursday's debate much better than the previous two. It allowed for more of a give-and-take between the candidates.
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Renee Ellmers has spent nearly four years in Congress. For that entire period, the Dunn Republican has served in a Republican majority.
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Renee Ellmers has spent nearly four years in Congress. For that entire period, the Dunn Republican has served in a Republican majority.
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We've had judges try to tell us that Jefferson, Adams & co. all created a right to taxpayer-funded abortion when they drafted our Constitution.
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We've had judges try to tell us that Jefferson, Adams & co. all created a right to taxpayer-funded abortion when they drafted our Constitution.
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Several drive-by sources are already chalking up Tillis’s troubles to the “unpopular” Republican majority in the North Carolina General Assembly. Never mind that the average voter can’t name their state representative or state senator.
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Several drive-by sources are already chalking up Tillis’s troubles to the “unpopular” Republican majority in the North Carolina General Assembly. Never mind that the average voter can’t name their state representative or state senator.
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If you are like me, and don’t watch much TV — the senatorial debate last night gave you a great recap of all the “fun” you’ve missed.
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If you are like me, and don’t watch much TV — the senatorial debate last night gave you a great recap of all the “fun” you’ve missed.
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Unfortunately, we're not voting for the winner of a game show here. We're choosing someone to vote on our behalf amid the DC nonsense.
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Unfortunately, we're not voting for the winner of a game show here. We're choosing someone to vote on our behalf amid the DC nonsense.
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Okay. It’s become pretty clear that Kay Hagan’s upper middle-class family has benefited greatly from our bloated state and federal governments.
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Okay. It’s become pretty clear that Kay Hagan’s upper middle-class family has benefited greatly from our bloated state and federal governments.
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The on-going US Senate race in North Carolina is really roiling Tar Heel conservatives.
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The on-going US Senate race in North Carolina is really roiling Tar Heel conservatives.
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We heard this term bantered about when former state Rep. Richard Morgan and a handful of friends cut a deal with Jim Black and the Democrats to snatch a state House majority from the GOP.
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We heard this term bantered about when former state Rep. Richard Morgan and a handful of friends cut a deal with Jim Black and the Democrats to snatch a state House majority from the GOP.
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We've got a political debate that's sure to draw a lot of media attention here in town Monday night.
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We've got a political debate that's sure to draw a lot of media attention here in town Monday night.
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GOP leaders from Thom Tillis to Skip Stam to Pat McCrory have bent over backwards to tell us what a great idea privately-managed toll roads are.
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GOP leaders from Thom Tillis to Skip Stam to Pat McCrory have bent over backwards to tell us what a great idea privately-managed toll roads are.
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Kay Hagan's campaign and its trolls are all over social media trumpeting a report published in the Greensboro News & Record that says North Carolina "ranks as worst state for teachers."
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Kay Hagan's campaign and its trolls are all over social media trumpeting a report published in the Greensboro News & Record that says North Carolina "ranks as worst state for teachers."
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Renee Ellmers must have been itching for some more coverage on this site. It's been a while since she graced our home page.
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Renee Ellmers must have been itching for some more coverage on this site. It's been a while since she graced our home page.
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The 2009 so-called "stimulus" passed by the Congress was one of the biggest budget-busting, deficit-growing, big-government, cronyism-enabling scams to ever come out of our capital city.
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The 2009 so-called "stimulus" passed by the Congress was one of the biggest budget-busting, deficit-growing, big-government, cronyism-enabling scams to ever come out of our capital city.
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Why on God’s green earth would you have someone campaign for you who so fundamentally disagrees with you on the issues?
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Why on God’s green earth would you have someone campaign for you who so fundamentally disagrees with you on the issues?
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There are a lot of Republicans around who would LOVE to see a poll with a number next to Thom Tillis's name that is bigger than the number next to Kay Hagan's name.
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There are a lot of Republicans around who would LOVE to see a poll with a number next to Thom Tillis's name that is bigger than the number next to Kay Hagan's name.
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Those of you who were hoping for a more aggressive strategy out of the Tillis campaign are likely going to be disappointed.
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Those of you who were hoping for a more aggressive strategy out of the Tillis campaign are likely going to be disappointed.
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We reported about an "interesting" real estate deal involving Senate candidate Thom Tillis and some high-dollar donors to his campaign.
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We reported about an "interesting" real estate deal involving Senate candidate Thom Tillis and some high-dollar donors to his campaign.
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Now, it appears WCNC in Charlotte has found one more questionable scenario involving Tillis, some wealthy donors, their real estate deals, and the proposed I-77 toll lane project enthusiastically backed by Tillis.
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Now, it appears WCNC in Charlotte has found one more questionable scenario involving Tillis, some wealthy donors, their real estate deals, and the proposed I-77 toll lane project enthusiastically backed by Tillis.
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Some internal docs at NCDOT are shedding some light on what happens to all of that money we shell out at the pump. For 2013-14, NCDOT got $4.4 BILLION in funding.
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Some internal docs at NCDOT are shedding some light on what happens to all of that money we shell out at the pump. For 2013-14, NCDOT got $4.4 BILLION in funding.
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It made me sick to my stomach to read about and hear about the arrest of Michael Speciale, Jr. this morning.
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It made me sick to my stomach to read about and hear about the arrest of Michael Speciale, Jr. this morning.
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It appears that The Raleigh News & Observer has partnered with The Daily Kos in its political coverage.
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It appears that The Raleigh News & Observer has partnered with The Daily Kos in its political coverage.
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Political prognosticator, cable TV talking head, and UVa political scientist Larry Sabato is seeing things trending Kay Hagan’s way this year.
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Political prognosticator, cable TV talking head, and UVa political scientist Larry Sabato is seeing things trending Kay Hagan’s way this year.
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The Prius-driving, low-T, latte-sipping NPR-swooning lefty-snobs at The Charlotte Observer, one of McClatchy's many failing media holdings in The Carolinas, are aghast that this state might become more like — *GASP* — Alabama.
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The Prius-driving, low-T, latte-sipping NPR-swooning lefty-snobs at The Charlotte Observer, one of McClatchy's many failing media holdings in The Carolinas, are aghast that this state might become more like — *GASP* — Alabama.
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Well, that didn’t take long. Mother Jones, the vanguard of leftist journalism, has jumped into the fray with an insinuation that Thom Tillis is a racist.
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Well, that didn’t take long. Mother Jones, the vanguard of leftist journalism, has jumped into the fray with an insinuation that Thom Tillis is a racist.
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It sure didn't take long for The miserably-failing Raleigh branch of the McClatchy empire to return to form as propagandameister for all things left-of-center.
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It sure didn't take long for The miserably-failing Raleigh branch of the McClatchy empire to return to form as propagandameister for all things left-of-center.
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US wealth gap putting squeeze on state revenue.
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US wealth gap putting squeeze on state revenue.
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It's football season. One of the favorite stats of sports drive-bys is time of possession (a/k/a "time on offense.") The longer your team has the ball, the longer the other team is without the ball AND a chance to score points against you.
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It's football season. One of the favorite stats of sports drive-bys is time of possession (a/k/a "time on offense.") The longer your team has the ball, the longer the other team is without the ball AND a chance to score points against you.
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In DC, Barry Obama is preparing to go to war against the Islamic State. In Raleigh, Pat McCrory is barricaded inside his Blount Street residence preparing for battle against his fellow Republicans in the General Assembly.
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In DC, Barry Obama is preparing to go to war against the Islamic State. In Raleigh, Pat McCrory is barricaded inside his Blount Street residence preparing for battle against his fellow Republicans in the General Assembly.
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I believe South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson would like to have a word with the Hagan campaign, state and national Democrats, and their lackeys in the drive-by media.
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I believe South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson would like to have a word with the Hagan campaign, state and national Democrats, and their lackeys in the drive-by media.
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Tillis campaign pollster Glen Bolger, whose firm is known by the unfortunate acronym POS, has released a poll showing the 2014 US Senate race all knotted up at 44 percent apiece.
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Tillis campaign pollster Glen Bolger, whose firm is known by the unfortunate acronym POS, has released a poll showing the 2014 US Senate race all knotted up at 44 percent apiece.
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That unemployment rate the drive-bys regularly quote to you is actually a percentage of the "workforce." In economics, the "workforce" is defined as that portion of the population, of working age, who are employed in civilian or military jobs.
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That unemployment rate the drive-bys regularly quote to you is actually a percentage of the "workforce." In economics, the "workforce" is defined as that portion of the population, of working age, who are employed in civilian or military jobs.
