Today, October 31st, marks our tenth favorite holiday of the year, Halloween; since you’re wondering, Independence Day is our first through fourth favorite, followed by Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Independence Day again, in that order.
The great thing about Halloween is that it’s perfect for everyone, young and old, rich and poor, pumpkin [...]
Last time he went hunting, Vice President Dick Cheney shot a man. This time he was caught, gasp, near a Confederate battle flag! Oh… my… GOSH!
And because it was in New York and they have nothing better to harp on, the MSM is trying to make a big deal of it.
It [...]
From the worst graduation rates in the country to pitiful SAT scores to the “Corridor of Shame” to Miss Teen S.C. Lauren Caitlin Upton, it’s difficult to find an adjective to adequately describe the stagnant state of public education in South Carolina. So it shouldn’t come as to much of a surprise that the [...]
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STEPHEN COLBERT’S FAVORITE BLOG, S.C. (TPS) – We’re big fans of The State’s Brad Warthen, but we were a little upset that we didn’t get an invitation to Sunday’s “Stephen Colbert Brunch” following the “Key to the City” event on the USC campus. Actually, we’re not that mad because it turned out to be [...]
As South Carolina mourns the tragic loss of seven college students after a fire early Sunday morning in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., state and local leaders offered words of support.
Governor Mark Sanford released a statement Monday, saying, “the deaths of these students are an incredible loss, made all the more tragic by the fact that [...]
Sen. Lindsey Graham has joined a number of senators voicing concern over President Bush’s nominee for U.S. Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, and his position on the harsh interrogation technique known as “waterboarding.” Graham, who sits on the judiciary committee, is hesitant to approve a candidate that condones the practice – seen by many as [...]
We’re not sure what a “Key to the City” does, if anything, but Columbia residents better watch out because comedian/America’s next president Stephen Colbert now has one. Mayor Bob Coble declared Sunday to be “Stephen Colbert Day” at a morning press conference on the University of South Carolina campus where he delivered Colbert, a [...]
WHO THE HELL INVITED CYNTHIA McKINNEY TO SOUTH CAROLINA?!?!?!
CONSPIRACY, S.C. (TPS) – We received an e-mail message Friday morning with the headline “Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney to visit South Carolina.” At we first we thought, “that should be ‘former Congresswoman’ because…” And then, before actually finishing that thought, it hit us that — if [...]
Last week, Horry County Council Vice Chairman Marion Dargan Foxworth III was arrested after supposedly offering a prostitute $20 for sex.
And now, former candidate Van Jenerette, who ran against U.S. Rep. Henry Brown in a 2000 Congressional primary race, has been arrested on charges stemming from an alleged 1972 sexual assault of a minor.
Jenerette, whose [...]
COMEDIAN TO RECEIVE ‘KEY TO COLUMBIA’
COLUMBIA, S.C. (TPS) – What started out as a joke — the prospect of late night talk show comedian Stephen Colbert running a quasi-faux presidential campaign — appears to be gaining some steam and causing more than just a buzz throughout cyberspace. A group that aimed to enlist one [...]