Archive for December, 2007


SC Politics ’07: Year Of The Monkey (Business)

SCANDALS WERE EVERYWHERE YOU LOOKED IN PALMETTO POLITICS THIS YEAR FITSNews - December 31, 2007 - As we head off to shoot fireworks at people during tonight's New Year's Eve celebration, we figured the only annual awards anybody deserved in South Carolina politics this year were those commemorating

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Who’s Going To Beat Tom Brady & The Patriots?

PROBABLY NOBODY, BUT THE COLTS ARE THE ONLY TEAM WITH A REAL SHOT FITSNews - December 31, 2007 - If top NFL prognosticators are to be believed, the only hope of dashing the New England Patriots' relentless pursuit of perfection lies with Peyton Manning and the defending Super Bowl Champion Indianapolis

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Heidi Montag Not Engaged, But Still Dating Cake Boy

THESE TWO AREN'T FOOLING ANYBODY FITSNews - December 31, 2007 - We keep going back and forth on The Hills, um, "actress" Heidi Montag. We know she's hot, we're just not sure whether fake lips and fake tits are worth dying for or not. Currently, we're going with "yes," although purely for Sic Willie's

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You Scratch My Back …

ANOTHER COZY S.C. POLITICAL RELATIONSHIP FOILS REAL REFORM FITSNews - December 31, 2007 - We wrote the other day about a federal judge up in Anderson County, S.C. who issued a temporary injunction that prohibits the state's workers' compensation commissioners from following the law and using

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Sic Willie’s A Weiner!

ACTUALLY NO HE'S NOT, THAT'S KYLE ORTON OF DA BEARS FITSNews - December 30, 2007 - It looks like "Da Bears" aren't going to the playoffs this year, but don't blame Sic Willie, who was 10-5 as a starter in 2005 and has won two of three games this year since retaking the reins of the Chicago offense. Of

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Echo Chamber – Eight Years Later, The Truth

STARTLING ADMISSION FROM TOMPKINS' UNDERLING FINALLY COMES TO LIGHT FITSNews - December 30, 2007 - The inauguration of George W. Bush as our nation's 43rd President never would have happened were it not for a brutal, three-day blitzkrieg of negative campaigning that took place right here in South

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Charlie Wilson’s War

SORKIN'S LATEST SCRIPT ELEVATES UNCONVENTIONAL WAR DRAMA FITSNews - December 29, 2007 - If the abysmal box office failure of recent politically-themed war dramas tells us anything, it's that Americans don't appreciate Hollywood trying to shove its world view down our throats. The left coast liberal

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FITSNews Exclusive – Ambulance Chasers Make Their Move

FEDERAL JUDGE ISSUES INJUNCTION AGAINST GOVERNOR'S WORKERS' COMP ORDERS FITSNews - December 28, 2007 - One week after the State Supreme Court ruled in favor of providing workers' comp benefits to illegal aliens, a federal judge in Greenville, S.C., has issued an injunction that prohibits South

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Random S.C. Political Update

REP. HINSON ENDORSES EX-HUSBAND IN RACE TO REPLACE HER FITSNews - December 28, 2007 - Nothing surprises us much anymore, but the fact that S.C. Rep. Shirley Hinson has decided to endorse her ex-husband's bid to take her place in the S.C. General Assembly did cause us to do a double-take. Didn't

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Oh, Henry

SOUTH CAROLINA CONGRESSMAN IS CAMPAIGNING ON YOUR DIME FITSNews - December 28, 2007 - We've always thought that U.S. Rep. Henry Brown would be a lot more interesting if he changed his name ... and grew a personality. For example, maybe he could start referring to himself as Rep. Shama Lama Dingdong

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Jesus Isn’t Gonna Like This

NEITHER IS NAT KING COLE, FOR THAT MATTER FITSNews - December 27, 2007 - While we were listening to the soothing strains of Nat King Cole's timeless rendition of "O Holy Night," apparently a bunch of Armenian and Greek Orthodox priests were beating the sh*t out of each other at the Church of the Nativity

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Merry Christmas From The Hiltons

HEIRESS NOT GOING TO INHERIT MUCH FROM HOTEL MAGNATE FITSNews - December 27, 2007 - While you were pretending to be excited about elastic waistband pants and cursing the intricacies of toy assembly, the Hiltons were spending Christmas in Hawaii. You know, because why wouldn't they? Yet while Paris

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