Moore County-based insurer First Carolina Care has announced that it's pulling its application to join the ObamaCare health insurance exchanges.
Published: Saturday, September 14th, 2013 @ 2:49 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We've got a unique situation here in Moore County. We are one of the most reliably Republican counties in the state. Yet, our only local paper is owned and operated by the same Democrat operatives who owned and operated The Raleigh News & Observer for years.
Published: Friday, September 13th, 2013 @ 3:13 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We here in Moore County were, um, “honored” with the presence of Bill Barber and his traveling circus of parasites and leftist loons this afternoon.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 12:59 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Due to North Carolina's rich resource of both mountains and beaches, tourists and vacationers, as well as medical patients have visited the state for vacation and for well-being.
Published: Sunday, September 1st, 2013 @ 11:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's a sad statement about the current state of public education when the person responsible for administering our local school system has such a poor grasp on reality.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 10:50 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Here in Moore County, the owners of our local thrice twice-weekly Peabody Award-winning, hallucination-inducing newspaper are the same bunch who perfected the concept of lefty media bias over decades at The Raleigh News & Observer.
Published: Sunday, June 23rd, 2013 @ 5:39 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Steve Bouser, editor of our world-class, multiple Nobel Prize and Lambda Award-winning twice-weekly local newspaper here in Moore County recently had a meltdown, which he documented in the pages of his money-bleeding publication.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2013 @ 6:38 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Facts can be inconvenient things. Especially when your own in-house records contradict the spin you are peddling to the public.
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2013 @ 5:39 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Most people who want an audience with The Pope on Easter weekend have to go to Rome. I got mine at the Moore County GOP convention this weekend.
Published: Thursday, April 4th, 2013 @ 10:04 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We've got an interesting dilemma here in Moore County. Our local paper is owned and operated by veteran Democrat Party fundraisers and strategists.
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2013 @ 2:31 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The editorial page of our multiple Hershel Walker Peace & Justice Award-winning local newspaper is apparently NOT a big fan of amendments to the North Carolina Constitution.
Published: Thursday, February 7th, 2013 @ 2:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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El Presidenté stirred up quite a grassroots ruckus with his "executive actions" many see as an infringement on The Second Amendment to The U.S. Constitution.
Published: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 11:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Back in March, we got word that Aberdeen's Railhouse Brewery wanted to move to Pinehurst and set up a microbrewery and restaurant in the resort's old steam plant facility in historic Old Town.
Published: Monday, December 3rd, 2012 @ 10:27 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The history of Pinehurst begins with Bostonian James Walker Tufts, who inherited a large fortune as head of several companies, most notably the American Soda Fountain Company.
Published: Sunday, November 18th, 2012 @ 9:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is something disturbing rumbling to the surface here in Moore County in the wake of the Nov 6 vote. The state GOP set up "NC Victory" offices all over the state.
Published: Sunday, November 18th, 2012 @ 2:50 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Some folks will accuse us of being blind followers of the GOP this election season. I am hoping this particular installment of our endorsement series will put that to rest.
Published: Friday, November 2nd, 2012 @ 1:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Second Congressional District's incumbent representative seems to be doing her best to ruin the gift horse delivered to her during redistricting.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 10:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Moore County is yellow-dog Republican. But we have plenty of folks who like to dictate what other people do with their property.
Published: Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 @ 3:59 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The edu-crats at Moore County Public Schools have outdone themselves again -- putting forth a rather questionable bit of innovation:
Published: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012 @ 8:22 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I've learned to be wary of ANYTHING containing the word "sustainable" or any organization whose name contains the word "sustainable." That word typically signals an intent to hamstring capitalists and capitalism.
Published: Wednesday, September 5th, 2012 @ 11:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Congresswoman Renee Ellmers is having quite a rocky relationship with folks in her new majority Republican district. A recent survey by Public Policy Polling found that she was leading her Democrat opponent Steve Wilkins by only 44-28 in this VERY Republican district.
Published: Thursday, August 30th, 2012 @ 3:31 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A Moore County man who was on probation for domestic violence charges is accused of killing his live-in girlfriend, whose body was found Wednesday near the entrance to the county landfill, authorities said.
Published: Saturday, August 25th, 2012 @ 4:10 am
By: Brant Clifton
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