McCrory’s Own Campaign Announces that the HMS McCrory Keeps Sinking Lower…and Lower…and Lower and then the John Locke Foundation Reconfirms that Republican Voters are Abandoning the Sinking McCrory
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 10:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It sounds like something out of one of The Godfather movies, or the final days of Nixon. But the reports we're getting make that headline look like a real possibility.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 5:50 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The public-private partnership is not working. She was wanting to have a special session on all of these incentives and handouts that none of us were thrilled with.
Published: Friday, December 5th, 2014 @ 8:18 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Well, the testosterone-challenged crowd in the McClatchy newsrooms have claimed the scalp of a poor, defenseless woman who made the horrific "mistake" of allowing Gov, Pat to appoint her poet laureate.
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 7:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We've been hearing quite a bit of behind-the-scenes grumbling from GOP insiders and activists on both sides of the Raleigh beltline.
Published: Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 @ 12:50 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It's too bad that we have to turn to history books detailing events of generations long ago to appreciate principled American leaders.
Published: Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 @ 1:21 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Make no mistake - we are NOT exactly "fans" of the welfare state here. In our opinion, the NC Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) could collapse into a giant sinkhole - never to be seen again - and the world would be a better place.
Published: Sunday, September 15th, 2013 @ 8:23 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Usually, the media and the public look to the governor on state government policy questions.
Published: Thursday, June 6th, 2013 @ 10:36 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Recently, I've been subjected to some insinuations that my Christianity and my conservatism are in question because I dare to raise questions about the leadership of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 @ 5:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The average low-information voter -- perhaps one of the few remaining paying McClatchy subscribers -- would look at that headline and say something like: "Hmmm. It sure does look like THAT Pat McCrory is covering something up!"
Published: Monday, April 29th, 2013 @ 7:36 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It seems like WRAL has film of NAACP president William Barber every day. They give him face time if he's standing on the street BY HIMSELF.
Published: Sunday, April 7th, 2013 @ 4:38 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A requirement for voters to show ID at the polls, and special licensing for non-citizens would appear to be no-brainers for the state GOP after winning an overwhelming majority and mandate in 2012.
Published: Sunday, March 24th, 2013 @ 11:12 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Is he "the centrist mayor of North Carolina's largest city who campaigned as someone able to work across party lines?
Published: Friday, February 22nd, 2013 @ 7:01 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The leadership of the N.C. General Assembly, newly reinforced by a Republican governor, appeared to show its true colors this week. And they weren't pretty.
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2013 @ 4:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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There's nothing like the whitest white man on the planet Earth complaining that someone else doesn't get "the black experience."
Published: Sunday, October 7th, 2012 @ 2:42 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It would be nice to have someone with a (R) next to their name residing in that big pretty house on Blount Street. But what if that person with the (R) next to their name is not really all that big of a fan of limited government?
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2012 @ 4:45 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Things are really tightening up in the race for North Carolina governor. Pat McCrory, the former mayor of Charlotte and a renowned moderate, is the GOP standard bearer against incumbent Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton.
Published: Wednesday, August 8th, 2012 @ 1:32 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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