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It Runs In The Family

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Courtesy of the lovely Mrs. Sic Willie, here's the incredibly cute (but frequently downright demonic) Johanna Elyse Folks doing her best imitation of "daddy work." To answer a few questions, yes ... that's her little "laptop" computer (which unlike other South Carolinians she has already learned to

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Letter: On Wingo Story

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RE: Source: Wingo Didn't Take His SAT Exam Dear Editor, Just to give you my two cents worth on your articles. The name is Daryl Gardner from Irmo just so you will know - retired firefighter from Camden S.C. I am a Gamecock fan but I still know things are not always what they seem. The problem

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Giving Them “FITS”

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Nothing (well ... other than fantasizing about women with freckles) gives our founding editor more pleasure than driving South Carolina elected officials bonkers. Particularly the dumb ones ... of which we can assure you there are plenty in this ass-backward banana republic of a state. Take the

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Our Sort Of Perp

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Meet Mary Elizabeth Holmes. She's twenty years old, and she lives in Duncan, S.C. Earlier this month, she was arrested for strong arm robbery after allegedly breaking into a couple's apartment and, well ... beating the crap out of them. "An incident report said that (the male resident), who was

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Sic: “I Am The Walrus”

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And then there was one ... In the latest testament to our obliteration of anything resembling "competition," FITSNews was the only South Carolina-based political website named to The Washington Post's 2011 list of best political blogs. That's a pretty powerful perch - particularly in light of the

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Back July 17 …

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FITSNews will be off the air until July 17. Don't worry ... we're not pulling a "News of the World" and shutting down completely (sorry to disappoint). Our founding editor Will Folks (a.k.a. Sic Willie) just needs a little time off to recharge his batteries - and capture his eleventy kabillionth consecutive

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So Long, Snitches!

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In case you haven't noticed the walls of water cresting all over our home page, something weird is happening on FITS this week. Our founding editor Will Folks (a.k.a. "Sic Willie") is gone, baby, gone ... He's Audi 5000, out like the fat kid in dodge ball, "see ya wouldn't wanna be ya," sayonara

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Gone Surfing …

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If you're a South Carolina politico looking to pull a fast one on the taxpayers, then you'd better strike while the iron (and the weather) is hot. That's because the Palmetto state's preeminent government watchdog - our founding editor, Sic Willie - will be vacationing in Myrtle Beach, S.C. (a.k.a.

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“Ride On …”

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For those of you who didn't know it, our founding editor is a world champion body surfer ... In fact, the art of body surfing has been passed down for generations in his family - with Sic Willie learning the finer points from his father, the legendary "El Kahuna Grande." Sic will be putting his skills

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Radio Free Sic Willie

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In the most extensive, intimate and detailed interview he's ever given (about anything), FITS founding editor Will Folks appeared Sunday on Alphonse FM - one of South Carolina's up-and-coming internet radio shows. And yes ... a wave of controversy will no doubt follow as a result of his appearance,

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Nobody Puts Sic Willie In A Corner

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Roughly a year ago, this website was on the verge of going down ... hard. Our founding editor Will Folks - arguably the most influential fiscal conservative agitator in the state - had just stepped forward and acknowledged an extramarital affair with a woman widely-presumed to be the most fiscally-conservative

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Give FITS Five

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Has FITS become one of your daily destinations for political news and commentary? We hope so ... and judging by the steady increases in traffic we've seen over the last few years, it has. What started five years ago as an insider political blog has morphed into a unique new media hybrid - one that

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