The numbers are in for the month of April and once again FITS News is the undisputed "King of New Media" in the Palmetto state. According to data from Compete.com, FITS received 76,768 unique visits during the month of April. That's an increase of nearly 8 percent from the previous month's traffic.
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Since our founding editor got hitched three years ago, he's been exposed to all sorts of new foods. That's a good thing, obviously ... as before the lovely Mrs. Sic arrived on the scene, Sic Willie's four major food groups were Bojangles, Domino's, Wendy's and Coca Cola. Anyway, while Mrs. Sic is
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While most Palmetto political observers (and more than a few politicos beyond our state's borders) are eagerly awaiting the salacious details of our founding editor's relationship with S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley, the truth is that his forthcoming tome will address much more than that. Prior to his May
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In her first-ever bid for political office last summer, Myrtle Beach newcomer Mande Wilkes came within 400 votes of knocking off an incumbent state lawmaker. Rather than challenging S.C. Rep. Nelson Hardwick again, however, she's setting her sights higher in 2012 ... on the U.S. Congress. On Wednesday,
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South Carolina's second-largest newspaper (and largest news website) crashed on Wednesday, sending its readers to a "502 Proxy Error" page. As of this writing, The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper - a center-left publication that our founding editor has lovingly christened "La Socialista" - remains
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Meet Jimmy McMillan - one of the potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates whose exploits we have been remiss in covering. A karate-chopping Vietnam veteran and former U.S. Postal Service employee, McMillan is famous for starting his own political party - the Brooklyn-based "Rent is too Damned
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Forget Atlas Shrugged. Or the "Austrian school" of economics. S.C. Rep. Thad Viers (R-Myrtle Beach) has boiled his ideology down much more succinctly. Here's a recent entry from Viers' Twitter page: Why am I a conservative dork? had lunch at Sam's club for a $1.67 tax included! That included a large
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This week's big (and controversial) announcement about Walmart's new investment in South Carolina has rekindled interest in a website that we first brought to our readers' attention nearly two years ago. The site is called "People of Walmart" - and it's a celebration of the local inbrededness that's
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Somebody call Tyrone Biggums, because there's some crackdacular behavior going down in the South Carolina Lowcountry ... and our guess is the fictional crackhead of Chappelle's Show fame could probably relate. From WCSC TV 5 (CBS - Charleston, S.C.): Police arrested a 41-year-old man last week after
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We've had our fun over the years with Wesley Donehue, the bow tie-wearing RINO hack who runs the website Process Story as one of several web-based services for his client roster. Wesley is a friendly, funny enough guy - once you realize you can't trust anything he says or writes (case in point - his
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The results are in from our first-ever "Fake News Friday" poll - and S.C. Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler is the winner. That's not surprising, though ... seeing as he was the only contestant. For those of you who haven't heard of this new series yet, on select Fridays we'll be publishing
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We won't do it every Friday (there's too much real news to cover), but today seemed like a fun day to start a new tradition here at FITS ... We're calling it "Fake News Friday," a game that invites readers to guess which news item posted in this section is real and which is made up. Our first item
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