LINDSAY LOHAN ARRESTED FOR RUN-IN WITH CURB FITSNews - May 27, 2007 - Our pappies once told us that "nothing good happens after midnight," but we always just assumed that sometime around 5:30 AM good things started happening again. Things like waking up. Or exercise. Or birds chirping. Or a cup of coffee
Read story »Archive for May, 2007
Talk About Stopping The Pork
ELEVEN YEAR OLD ALABAMA BOY DROPS THOUSAND POUND HOG FITSNews - May 26, 2007 - Politicians who like to talk about stopping the pork could take a lesson from an 11-year-old Jamison Stone, the Alabama boy who shot and killed a 1,051-pound hog earlier this month on a plantation in Delta, Ala. Dubbed "Hogzilla
Read story »“What We Must All Ask”
A QUARTER CENTURY LATER, REAGAN'S WORDS STILL REVERBERATE ON MEMORIAL DAY FITSNews - May 26, 2007 - The following remarks were delivered by President Ronald Reagan on Memorial Day, May 31, 1982, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers in Arlington National Cemetary: Mr. President, General, the distinguished
Read story »Al Gore Needs Some Happy Drugs
FORMER VEEP SAYS HE'S IMPATIENT, BAD AT POLITICS FITSNews - May 25, 2007 - We've always liked Al Gore. He invented the Internet, after all, which is pretty much the only thing we've got going for us these days. He even told us one time that if we'd be his bodyguards, he could be our long lost pal. Then
Read story »Governor’s “Happy Ending?”
SENATE DEMOCRATS' ATTACK ON SANFORD PUSHES BOUNDARIES OF APPROPRIATENESS, EVEN FOR US FITSNews - May 25, 2007 - It takes a lot for us to call something "inappropriate." In fact, some would argue we invented the concept. It's also no secret that we're less than enthused by the recent performance of S.C.
Read story »Republicans Are Going To Need Some Good Advertising
SOUTH CAROLINIANS ARE DUMB, BUT ... FITSNews - May 25, 2007 - South Carolina Republicans are always bragging about how they live in the "most Republican state in the nation." Of course they never tell you that they also live in the dumbest state in the nation, which means it's not that hard to trick
Read story »John McCain’s Conference Call Music Sucks
WE'RE PRETTY SURE IT WAS MELISSA MANCHESTER, PEOPLE FITSNews - May 24, 2007 - While it may not have been as untenable as his "money is not speech" position on campaign finance reform, the music we heard on John McCain's conference call for reporters yesterday made us ... let's see if there's a nice
Read story »Pay Attention, Britney
AMERICAN IDOL JUDGE HAS SAGE ADVICE FOR SPEARS' CAREER FITSNews - May 24, 2007 - American Idol judge Simon Cowell wasn't elected to the S.C. Supreme Court yesterday, but that didn't stop him from issuing a well-reasoned opinion on pop singer Britney Spears in an exclusive interview with ABC News. "Only
Read story »Ad Valorem, Ad Veritas
HIGH-END SNUFF PRODUCERS MANIPULATING CIGARETTE TAX BILL FOR CORPORATE MARKET GRAB FITSNews – May 24, 2007 – There’s just something we like about the terms “ad valorem†(by value) and “ad veritas†(by truth). Of course, we’re also partial to the term
Read story »Introducing Speaker Cobb-Hunter
WHO'S THE MAYOR OF IMPORTANTVILLE NOW? FITSNews - May 24, 2007 - We've got to hand it to our homegirl Gilda Cobb-Hunter. After the election of Democrat Donald W. Beatty to the S.C. Supreme Court yesterday, the former House Minority Leader (and driving force behind the suddenly omnipotent S.C. Legislative
Read story »Next Supreme Court Justice Blasts Sic Willie
FITSNews - May 23, 2007 - It's safe to say that Sic Willie won't be on the Christmas Card list of Judge Donald W. Beatty, who was elected on the third ballot today by a joint session of the South Carolina General Assembly to become the Palmetto State's next Supreme Court justice. "You've done more to
Read story »Dreams Of Gas Tax Increase Blocking S.C. DOT Reform
LEATHERMAN STALLING TRANSPORTATION REFORM BILL TO SECURE MORE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR TAX INCREASE FITSNews - May 23, 2007 - S.C. Sen. Hugh Leatherman's burning desire to see South Carolina's gas tax raised by ten cents a gallon is the latest roadblock to a Department of Transportation reform bill,
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