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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I had to convince myself repeatedly that this was NOT a Saturday Night Live skit. The drive-bys subjected us AND the candidates with some moronic, leftist questions.
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I had to convince myself repeatedly that this was NOT a Saturday Night Live skit. The drive-bys subjected us AND the candidates with some moronic, leftist questions.
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he drive-bys are working hard to gin up some interest in tonight's US Senate debate. They are trying to sell us on the possibility that this televised event tonight could change the course of the race.
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he drive-bys are working hard to gin up some interest in tonight's US Senate debate. They are trying to sell us on the possibility that this televised event tonight could change the course of the race.
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A new study has found that new arrivals to North Carolina and the United States have been enjoying the most success in landing jobs in The Tar Heel State.
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A new study has found that new arrivals to North Carolina and the United States have been enjoying the most success in landing jobs in The Tar Heel State.
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I got a private message over the weekend from a drive-by media personality who works for one of the better-known media outlets in the eastern part of North Carolina.
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I got a private message over the weekend from a drive-by media personality who works for one of the better-known media outlets in the eastern part of North Carolina.
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I am still shaking my head in disbelief at Judge Hobgood's ruling judge that school vouchers are "unconstitutional."
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I am still shaking my head in disbelief at Judge Hobgood's ruling judge that school vouchers are "unconstitutional."
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House speaker Thom Tillis and his team, Gov. Pat McCrory, and scores of big names in the state's business establishment have been harping on the alleged importance of customized, special incentives to lure new business - from TV and movie productions to industry - to North Carolina.
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House speaker Thom Tillis and his team, Gov. Pat McCrory, and scores of big names in the state's business establishment have been harping on the alleged importance of customized, special incentives to lure new business - from TV and movie productions to industry - to North Carolina.
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Well, the effort to bring party disloyalty into the debate on HB 1224 blew up rather unceremoniously. Apparently, some "pain-in-the-ass-teabagger web site" spilled the beans before the plan could get underway.
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Well, the effort to bring party disloyalty into the debate on HB 1224 blew up rather unceremoniously. Apparently, some "pain-in-the-ass-teabagger web site" spilled the beans before the plan could get underway.
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I'm sure the very thought of that sends shockwaves of trauma across The People's Republic of Chapel Hill. Emergency drum circle sessions are being organized.
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I'm sure the very thought of that sends shockwaves of trauma across The People's Republic of Chapel Hill. Emergency drum circle sessions are being organized.
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Sources are telling us that emissaries from the DC Republican establishment had a sit-down with NC Tea Party activists in The Queen City Tuesday evening.
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Sources are telling us that emissaries from the DC Republican establishment had a sit-down with NC Tea Party activists in The Queen City Tuesday evening.
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We posted earlier about the secretive effort by the feds to dump all of those border-crashing kids from South America in various US states – without bothering to inform the governors or other leaders.
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We posted earlier about the secretive effort by the feds to dump all of those border-crashing kids from South America in various US states – without bothering to inform the governors or other leaders.
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On the surface, it's heart-warming to hear statists celebrating the concept of patriotism.
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On the surface, it's heart-warming to hear statists celebrating the concept of patriotism.
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Veteran election observer Larry Sabato has a thought-provoking piece out in the latest edition of Politico Magazine.
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Veteran election observer Larry Sabato has a thought-provoking piece out in the latest edition of Politico Magazine.
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Most preachers are pretty busy with church stuff on Sundays. Not the most-holy-of-holies, reverend Bill Barber, though. The Round Rev was busy preening in front of the slobbering sycophants and their cameras
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Most preachers are pretty busy with church stuff on Sundays. Not the most-holy-of-holies, reverend Bill Barber, though. The Round Rev was busy preening in front of the slobbering sycophants and their cameras
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The US Export-Import Bank is seeking Congress's help to extend its life a little longer.
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The US Export-Import Bank is seeking Congress's help to extend its life a little longer.
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"I didn't go looking for this opportunity," said John Rhodes, the best-known of the three qualified write-in candidates for US Senate in North Carolina. "It found me.
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"I didn't go looking for this opportunity," said John Rhodes, the best-known of the three qualified write-in candidates for US Senate in North Carolina. "It found me.
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If you listen to the drive-by media or the zombies and trolls following Bill Barber around, you’d think North Carolina state government was now a shoe-string operation.
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If you listen to the drive-by media or the zombies and trolls following Bill Barber around, you’d think North Carolina state government was now a shoe-string operation.
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We posted earlier about how new regulations on the use of unmanned drone aircraft in North Carolina *magically* appeared amid an appropriations bill that passed the state Senate.
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We posted earlier about how new regulations on the use of unmanned drone aircraft in North Carolina *magically* appeared amid an appropriations bill that passed the state Senate.
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We usually try to keep our focus on events related to The Carolinas, but the circus in Ferguson, Missouri has us stepping out from those parameters.
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We usually try to keep our focus on events related to The Carolinas, but the circus in Ferguson, Missouri has us stepping out from those parameters.
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Former GOP legislator John Rhodes — now a conservative independent is taking the fight directly to major party candidates Kay Hagan and Thom Tillis.
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Former GOP legislator John Rhodes — now a conservative independent is taking the fight directly to major party candidates Kay Hagan and Thom Tillis.
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The Speaker of The House tried to ram through a bill containing a smorgasbord of odds-and-ends spending desired by the governor and various special interests.
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The Speaker of The House tried to ram through a bill containing a smorgasbord of odds-and-ends spending desired by the governor and various special interests.
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If the powers-that-be in the North Carolina House have their way, that will be absolutely true.
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If the powers-that-be in the North Carolina House have their way, that will be absolutely true.
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We’ve all seen this movie before. Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman in Florida.
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We’ve all seen this movie before. Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman in Florida.
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Kay Hagan and her comrades in the drive-by media want to talk about education in terms of "cuts", how much is and is not being spent on various government programs, and how evil Republicans are toward the "lil' chil'ren."
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Kay Hagan and her comrades in the drive-by media want to talk about education in terms of "cuts", how much is and is not being spent on various government programs, and how evil Republicans are toward the "lil' chil'ren."
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Chests are being thumped defiantly at Low-T headquarters on Raleigh's Jones Street. The McClatchy drive-bys are convinced that they have found Gov. Pat McCrory's Watergate.
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Chests are being thumped defiantly at Low-T headquarters on Raleigh's Jones Street. The McClatchy drive-bys are convinced that they have found Gov. Pat McCrory's Watergate.
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The details have been scrubbed from The Internet, but — thanks to resources like The Wayback Machine — nothing is ever truly GONE from cyberspace.
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The details have been scrubbed from The Internet, but — thanks to resources like The Wayback Machine — nothing is ever truly GONE from cyberspace.
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The N&O chronicles the movie industry crybabies as they pack up to leave North Carolina in the wake of a state decision to trim and streamline benefits for filming in the state
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The N&O chronicles the movie industry crybabies as they pack up to leave North Carolina in the wake of a state decision to trim and streamline benefits for filming in the state
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Supposedly, the Republican Party is about free markets, individual liberty, and reaping the rewards of hard work.
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Supposedly, the Republican Party is about free markets, individual liberty, and reaping the rewards of hard work.
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The Post says Republicans will take the US Senate, but we - in North Carolina - can likely expect SIX MORE YEARS of Kay Hagan.
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The Post says Republicans will take the US Senate, but we - in North Carolina - can likely expect SIX MORE YEARS of Kay Hagan.
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They're dancing in the streets in Carrboro. The Great Satan — Art Pope — is stepping away from his state government role. There is a new feeling of hope and optimism around the drum circles these days.
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They're dancing in the streets in Carrboro. The Great Satan — Art Pope — is stepping away from his state government role. There is a new feeling of hope and optimism around the drum circles these days.
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Yep. That's the way veteran political analyst Dan Balz characterizes the 2014 tussle between incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan, Republican Thom Tillis, and Libertarian Sean Haugh.
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Yep. That's the way veteran political analyst Dan Balz characterizes the 2014 tussle between incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan, Republican Thom Tillis, and Libertarian Sean Haugh.
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North Carolina attorney general Roy Cooper is starting to remind me of Peter Gibbons, the main character in the cult hit movie "Office Space."
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North Carolina attorney general Roy Cooper is starting to remind me of Peter Gibbons, the main character in the cult hit movie "Office Space."
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Every once in a while we’re blessed with a lone voice of common sense, out in the wilderness, trying to inject some common sense into the nonsense that is the Raleigh political circus.
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Every once in a while we’re blessed with a lone voice of common sense, out in the wilderness, trying to inject some common sense into the nonsense that is the Raleigh political circus.
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Alabama senator Jeff Sessions is putting in a yeoman's effort trying to derail the GOP cave-in on amnesty for illegal aliens.
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Alabama senator Jeff Sessions is putting in a yeoman's effort trying to derail the GOP cave-in on amnesty for illegal aliens.
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During the recently-completed GOP primary for US Senate, speaker Thom Tillis told a fundraiser crowd in Wilmington he favored the retention of state incentives for studios shooting movies and TV shows in North Carolina.
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During the recently-completed GOP primary for US Senate, speaker Thom Tillis told a fundraiser crowd in Wilmington he favored the retention of state incentives for studios shooting movies and TV shows in North Carolina.
