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Mitt Romney has drawn the ire of the Sons of Confederate Veterans for his “That’s not a flag that I recognize” rant at Wednesday’s CNN/YouTube GOP debate.
“This will kick off a concerted effort by the SCV to let scalawags and carpetbaggers know that the road to the White House hits a dead end when they [...]

TPS video of the day 11/30

It’s been about two months since we’ve had a video of the day. Why? I don’t know. Don’t ask such stupid questions.
And speaking of stupid questions, here’s a painful clip of former American Idol contestant and current country music star Kellie Pickler doing her best Miss Teen South Carolina impression… only it’s [...]

Clinton hostage crisis

From the Boston Globe:
A man walked into Hillary Clinton’s campaign office in Rochester, N.H., this afternoon with what looked like a bomb strapped to his body and is holding two volunteers hostage, according to police and a campaign official.
The man walked into the office on North Main Street at about 12:55 p.m., said Captain Anthony [...]

Hoover on governor’s race

I’m glad to see that Dan Hoover remembered that he has a blog and has decided to post something again after a two week hiatus. Upon his return, he’s been doing some speculating on the 2010 gubernatorial race.
Hoover first writes about the Wilkins brothers, who are both rumored to be eying the governor’s mansion.
Judge [...]

Mr. E.D.

If you care about GOP politics in South Carolina, and you are at all concerned with the inner-structure of the state’s Republican Party, then boy have I got news for you! Actually, it’s not really exciting enough to warrant the exclamation point, but it’s a shred of news on an otherwise slow Friday.
According to [...]

Governor’s grant scandal heating up

I wrote Tuesday that Sen. Jake Knotts and WCBD-TV submitted Freedom of Information requests for the Carolinians for Reform organization, a nonprofit group that received a very generous donation of $101,524 from Gov. Mark Sanford.  But that money came from a leftover coffer of public money raised for last year’s National Governors Association meeting in [...]

Witherspoon on CofCC: I’m a member

He’s been a U.S. Senate candidate — if you can even really call him that — for less than three weeks now in an election that’s more than six months away, but former RNC National Committeeman Buddy Witherspoon is already embroiled in a mess that threatens to sink his fledgling campaign. And rather than deal [...]

ACLU v. Tommy Bowden

It’s hard to say who I would root for in a matchup between the American Civil Liberties Union and Clemson University. On one hand, you have a group of over-the-top, malevolent communists who use taxpayer dollars to fund their radical anti-American agenda, and on the other hand you have the ACLU.
I’m kidding of [...]

Romney and ‘the flag’

I wasn’t going to write anything on the CNN/YouTube Republican presidential primary debate because it was in Florida and I don’t really care about Florida. That is until a question came up from a young man in Houston, Texas about the Confederate battle flag and whether it represented heritage or racism.
And poor Mitt Romney [...]

EFA Study Committee could help find solutions

When we have to rely on legislative committees to solve important problems, the result is usually quite disappointing. But when it comes to education in South Carolina, the only place we can go is up. So I’m hopeful that House Speaker Bobby Harrell’s newly-announced Education Finance Act Study Committee will be able to [...]

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