Gov. Mark Sanford will travel to Horry County, S.C. to visit areas affected by a fire that continues to burn and is forecast to intensify before firefighters are able to get it under control.
Fortunately, the fire is being pushed inland away from the Grand Strand’s most heavily-populated areas. Also, the Intracoastal Waterway has served as [...]
Sanford To Visit Horry County
We Want This Dude, His Shirt
Back when our founding editor attended his privileged Yankee prep school (in a tiny little hamlet in Eastern Pennsylvania), he earned a little dough on the side by selling University of South Carolina hats with one word on them.
COCKS.
That’s right. Those things sold like hot cakes, too, people. And Sic’s seventy-five percent markup wasn’t bad, [...]
Rumors Fly In Radio Host’s Dismissal
The abrupt dismissal of an immensely popular University of South Carolina radio host has many Gamecock fans fightin’ mad – and several athletic department insiders speculating about what really happened to Mike Morgan, who handled play-by-play duties for the school’s basketball and baseball programs.
Morgan – who was canned on Monday after more than a decade [...]
Live From The Grand Strand Fire
Jim and Susan Turner and their friends Seppo and Judy Hupponeret were paying their first visit to the Grand Strand – but it’s safe to say the Canadian couples had no idea that familiar visions of fluffy whiteness falling from the clouds would follow them all the way to South Carolina.
Scheduled to return to Canada [...]
Parental Choice: Knotts Ain’t Hearing It
Over two hundred S.C. supporters of parental choice showed up to testify at a Senate Education subcommittee meeting today, but at least one State Senator wasn’t interested in hearing what they had to say.
Perhaps Sen. Jake Knotts (RINO-Lexington) was trying to send a message – school choice supporters, after all, were part of the broad [...]
Grand Strand Fires Still Raging
Firefighters are continuing to battle a blaze in Horry County that has now consumed 100 homes and burned over 15,000 acres.
A thick haze has also blanketed the entire Grand Strand – casting an eery pall over this bustling tourist mecca.
Currently, the fire is spreading North, where it is being fought on the ground by firefighters [...]
Big Brother Did What?
We all know how Big Brother has used the economic crisis to assume an unprecedented degree of control over America’s private sector – at the expense of liberty, our nation’s founding principles and a scarcely-fathomable $13 trillion cost to taxpayers.
We know, it’s insane. And judging from today’s breaking news – far more corrupt than we [...]
Drudging Along, Quietly
Washington D.C. is currently buzzing over the increasingly reclusive nature of one Matt Drudge, the “Internetist” whose eponymous website has been driving political news coverage for the better part of the last decade.
Drudge hasn’t made a public appearance since he showed up at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s concession speech last July, a rare surfacing of [...]
More Pink Confetti
It’s still raining pink confetti in America, as initial jobless claims rose to 640,000 last week according to data released today by the U.S. Ministry of Unemployment … err, Department of Labor.
That brings total job losses for the current recession” (can we start calling it a depression now?) to 5.1 million.
Oh and there’s more good [...]
Clemson Memos Reveal “Top 20″ Obsession
Malcolm X’s “By Any Means Necessary” maxim apparently has nothing on Clemson University’s need for national respect.
Already under fire for exorbitant administrative raises, Tigertown was rocked again today by the release of several internal memos that lay bare the school’s naked obsession with becoming a U.S. News & World Report “Top 20″ University.
And while obsessing [...]
Myrtle Beach Is On Fire
South Carolina’s tourism industry was already facing a disastrous year, but the hits just keep-a-coming.
According to S.C. Forestry Officials, 15,000 acres and 70 homes have been destroyed in the heart the Grand Strand by a fire that began yesterday afternoon.
Nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated, and thankfully no injuries have been reported.
Also, no cause has [...]
USC Disputes Administrative Growth Story
Very politely and professionally, the University of South Carolina is disputing some elements of a story we published yesterday on growth within the administration of University President Harris Pastides.
Specifically, the school’s spokeswoman tells FITS that Pastides is actually saving money by consolidating several positions – a claim which our sources at the school are vigorously [...]
