“What do you expect when you target the President?” This is what an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent allegedly said to the head of a conservative organization that was being audited after calling for the impeachment of then-President Clinton. Recent revelations that IRS agents gave “special scrutiny” to organizations opposed to the current administration’s policies [...]
SCDP: Actions Speak Louder Than Words On Ethics Reform
Governor Haley will be holding a press conference this morning and attached is a document to help you decode the Governor’s real position on ethics since her actions tell a far different story than her words.
Without ethical leaders, we’ll never have ethical government. The Governor has failed to meet the standard of conduct that South Carolinians [...]
Incoming Wire: Vick, Sanford, Cursing, Etc.
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WTF Is Up With Angelina Jolie’s Breasts?
There’s been no shortage of disappointing headlines recently, but the one about Hollywood A-lister Angelina Jolie’s breasts is the one that gets to us the most …
“The truth is I carry a ‘faulty’ gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer,” Jolie wrote in today’s editions of The New [...]
Kid Channels Whitney Houston
Do you believe the children are our future?
Student Jeff Bliss at Duncanville (Texas) High School does … in fact he recently delivered a “children are our future” rant at his World History/ Asian Studies teacher, Julie Phung, after she told him to leave her class.
“If you would just get up and teach them instead of [...]
The Mark Sanford Trespassing Hearing Is Off
Less than forty-eight hours after winning election to the U.S. Congress – and less than 24 hours after assuming office – U.S. Rep.-elect Mark Sanford was scheduled to face a Charleston County family court judge on allegations that he has habitually trespassed on his ex-wife’s property in violation of their 2010 divorce decree.
Wait … what?
Welcome [...]
Kevin Bryant Blasts SC “RINOs”
One South Carolina State Senator is blasting his fiscally liberal “Republican” colleagues in a national news story previewing this weekend’s big speech to the S.C. Republican Party by U.S. Sen Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
State Senator Kevin Bryant (R-Anderson) – one of the handful of authentic fiscal conservatives in the S.C. General Assembly – had this to [...]
Programming Note
Posting will be light for the next three days as our founding editor Will Folks (a.k.a. Sic Willie) travels to Myrtle Beach, S.C. with his family for the 100th birthday celebration of his grandmother.
That’s right, 100 years …
How cool is that?
Anyway we’ll be back in the saddle again come Monday so try not to miss [...]
That Mark Sanford “Coitus” Sign
While S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford tours the Palmetto State’s first congressional district with a cutout of Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi, one James Island resident is using the governor’s homemade sign shtick against him.
Just off the James Island connector in Charleston County, S.C., a FITS reader snapped a picture of a white sign spray-painted with [...]
Second Boston Bombing Suspect In Custody
Hours after calling off one of the largest manhunts in American history and telling the people of Boston to “go about their business,” authorities located – and captured – the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings Friday evening.
Nineteen-year-old Dzhokar Tsarnaev was found hiding in the back of a boat in Watertown, Massachusetts – a suburb [...]
