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Royals Wed

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Not since the wedding of Prince Akeem of Zamunda and his American bride, Princess Lisa, has the world seen a wedding quite like this one ... Prince William - the eldest son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana - and his bride Kate Middleton were married at Westminster Abbey in London on Friday

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Sic: “Why I’m A Writer”

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By Will Folks || Why am I a writer? That's easy ... it's the only thing I've ever been good at (or the only legal, non-perverted thing I've ever been good at). Beyond that, I write because I've got things to say (a.k.a. "look-at-me" syndrome). I write because I genuinely enjoy it. I write

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“High-pocrisy”

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Rhode Island's Republican majority leader was recently busted on suspicion of driving under the influence of marijuana. Big deal, right? In this case ... yes. That's because only a few weeks ago Rep. Robert Watson accused the Rhode Island legislature of having its priorities in line only "if you

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Bridget Keeney, Back Again

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"Bridget Keeney" is back, people ... Former S.C. Board of Education Chairwoman Kristin Maguire - who resigned her post in 2009 after our website busted her writing incest-themed internet porn under the pen name "Bridget Keeney" - made a memorable appearance at the Pickens County GOP convention on

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New Video Slams Tea Partiers

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From the same creative team that lampooned S.C. Lt. Gov. Ken Ard and called the SCGOP a "Gangsta's Paradise," here's a hilarious new video taken from interviews conducted at this week's sparsely-attended Tea Party rally on the steps of the S.C. State House. Produced by the YouTube assassins known

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S.C. Frat-tastic

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We're not sure whether this ass-clown is being serious ... but if so then he's managed to condense the life of a South Carolina fraternity boy into two-and-a-half agonizingly atonal minutes on YouTube. His song is called "Life of a South Carolina Fratter," and when we find out where he lives we'll

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FITS Still Spanking The Competition

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The numbers are in for March 2011 and FITSNews is ... surprise, surprise ... still the undisputed king of the S.C. political blogosphere. According to the latest data from Compete.com, FITS recorded nearly 71,500 unique visits during the month of March. That’s one of our best months ever – and

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Haley Barbour Insults New Hampshire

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Mississippi Gov. (and 2012 presidential wanna be) Haley Barbour made big news by insulting New Hampshire during his first visit to the early-voting Granite state on Thursday. What did he say that was so awful? From The Washington Post: "I feel very at home here," Barbour said in response to a

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Meet Darth Pearson

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Back when we knew him (i.e. last spring), S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley's chief of staff Tim Pearson was a decent guy. Not only did we work closely with him for weeks in an effort to keep our founding editor's 2007 love affair with then-Rep. Haley from becoming public knowledge, but Pearson was the only member

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The Woods

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To the chagrin of the South Carolina political establishment our founding editor has yet to shuffle off this mortal coil ... He did, however, briefly shuffle away from his urban existence last weekend - happily exchanging status quo politics in Columbia and the government shutdown drama in D.C. for

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Meet Gizem Memic

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We would sooner impale ourselves on a flaming stake than eat a "Turkey Burger," but God bless Hardee's (a.k.a. Carl's Jr.) for hiring last year's Miss Turkey in an effort to convince us otherwise. In what has to be the best commercial we've seen in some time (above), the lovely Gizem Memic strides

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Better To Be Feared

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Is it better to be feared or loved? That depends ... what kind of "love" are we talking about (kidding, kidding)? While we prefer to be feared AND loved, we're happy with New York Magazine's designation of our founding editor as South Carolina's "blogger to fear." This pronouncement appears in

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