The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to uphold a lower court ruling voiding Proposition 8 - the 2008 California ballot amendment that outlawed gay marriage in the Golden State. "Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays
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For the second time in five years, South Carolina's "Republican-controlled" state government is proposing to "reform" the S.C. Department of Transportation (SCDOT). But is that really what's going to happen? Not if things stay as they are ... While we credit GOP lawmakers - and S.C. Gov. Nikki
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As last week's political hatchet job against S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis continues to unravel, the Columbia insiders who orchestrated the plot are beginning to turn on one another - revealing specific details of their botched intrigue. One of those details? A spoil of "victory" that one of the conspirators
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Three states will go to the polls on Tuesday to voice their presidential preference - Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri. But do any of these contests matter? No. Not a single one of the three states voting on Tuesday will award delegates. In fact Missouri is only holding its primary because the
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The Charleston Place - a luxury hotel in downtown Charleston, S.C. which is currently embroiled in a quarter-million dollar dispute with a group of South Carolina GOP heavyweights - owes U.S. taxpayers more than a hundred times that amount. This outstanding balance stems from a $10 million government
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Sources close to S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson and S.C. State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) chief Mark Keel tell FITS that State Treasurer Curtis Loftis is in the clear regarding "pay-to-play" allegations leveled against him by his political enemies. "There may be evidence of the other guy talking
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A Russian expedition attempting the first-ever winter summit of K2 abandoned its quest this week after one of its climbers died on the "Savage Mountain." "The expedition is over," an update from the team's official website reads. The decision to pack it in was reached by team leaders after climber
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When it isn't drawing crowds that barely crack four figures, the University of South Carolina is busy turning its cavernous Colonial Life Arena into a the equivalent of a home court for ranked opponents. You know ... programs which enjoy (imagine this) a national fan base. Wait ... you've been
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We've made our thoughts perfectly clear on S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley's choice (err, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control board's choice) ... of Catherine Templeton as the nominee to lead this agency. "Catherine Templeton is an unqualified candidate selected by a bunch of mindless stooges
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As lifelong Indianapolis Colts fans, it's in our DNA to hate Tom Brady. He's a pretty boy ... and we have long reveled in mocking him and his supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen (referring to him derisively as "Poopie"). So ... naturally we savored the defeat of Brady's New England Patriots in Super Bowl
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They own the local politicians ... that much we already knew. Now the sprawling educrat establishment in Spartanburg, S.C. is getting some love from the city's "conservative" mainstream media. Once among the state's most forward-thinking editorial boards, the opinion-makers at The Spartanburg Herald-Journal
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The Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SRLC) responded harshly this week to a lawsuit filed against the organization by The Charleston Place hotel. The Charleston Place lawsuit - news of which broke exclusively on FITS last week - alleged that the SRLC stiffed the downtown Charleston, S.C.
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