Days after releasing a poll showing South Carolinians evenly split on the question of Medicaid expansion, a conservative-leaning think tank has released a new report urging policymakers to reject this “free money.”
“This allegedly good deal will only bring turmoil to the state’s budget in the future,” former U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint writes in a foreword [...]
DeMint Group: Just Say No To Medicaid Expansion
Jim DeMint Disappoints Again
We’ve already expressed our disappointment in former U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint for leaving his elected post four years early. However we trusted DeMint when he said he could do more for the pro-taxpayer, pro-free market, pro-liberty cause in his new role as head of The Heritage Foundation, a “conservative” think tank in Washington, D.C.
So far [...]
SC Academic Standing Plummets
In 1998 South Carolina elected an “Education Governor,” Democrat Jim Hodges. In 2000, it approved an “Education Lottery” (ostensibly “for the children”). And over the course of the last decade its “Republican-controlled” S.C. General Assembly has pumped billions of dollars in new money in government schools – all the while fighting tooth and nail against [...]
SC Farmers’ Market: The Saga Continues
It’s been awhile since we last updated our readers on the Ralph Norman for Lieutenant Governor campaign – a.k.a. Norman’s anti-Semitic blitzkrieg against a proposed property sale at the South Carolina Farmers’ Market.
For those of you who haven’t been following this fight, Norman is attempting to queer a deal between the S.C. Department of Agriculture [...]
Heritage Foundation: Still Neocon Whoring
We had hoped Jim DeMint’s decision to leave the U.S. Senate and take the reins of the Heritage Foundation would result in a shift in that organization’s support for the mindless (and unnecessary) expansion of the American military industrial complex.
Apparently not … or at least not yet.
This week the “conservative” think tank offered up a [...]
Gowdy To Address Charleston Meeting
U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) will address an invitation only gathering of Republican donors and activists in Charleston, S.C. next month.
Gowdy, who represents the state’s fourth congressional district, will speak on March 11 to The Charleston Meeting – a gathering of GOP donors and activists organized by Republican politico Mallory Factor.
We rarely attend these get [...]
Teddy Turner Is Not “Mister Black People”
“I’m MISTER black people,” an exasperated Jerry Maguire screamed into the phone in a frenetic scene from the hit 1996 movie of the same name.
Maguire was attempting to affirm his “oneness with the brothers,” something we failed miserably to do in the first half of this sentence when we used the phrase “oneness with the [...]
SC Crazy Council Veers Left
Remember the S.C. Policy Council? Yeah … you’re not alone if you answered that question with a not-so-resounding “huh?” or “who?”
The S.C. Policy Council is a think tank which decided several years ago to stop thinking … and to try competing against us in the new media marketplace. How’d that work out for the group? [...]
Catherine Templeton Makes GOP Watch List
S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) director Catherine Templeton was included on a national list of GOP officials to watch in 2013.
The list – published by Governing magazine – included thirteen other prominent GOP officials from across the country.
“She’s ruffled some feathers with personnel housecleaning at her new agency, but those moves have [...]
Jim DeMint Announces Formation Of New SC Think Tank
Columbia, SC – Today, former U.S. Senator and Heritage Foundation President-elect Jim DeMint announced the launch of the Palmetto Policy Forum, an independent, South Carolina-based think tank.
DeMint, who is investing a portion of his remaining campaign funds to help establish the group, will also serve as its Founding Chairman.
Joining him on the Founding Board is [...]
New Think Tank Forming In SC
South Carolina’s marketplace of ideas is about to welcome a new conservative think tank, sources familiar with the entity’s launch tell FITS.
The new organization is called the Palmetto Policy Forum – and it will debut this week with the support of former U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, who resigned his seat earlier this year to take [...]
Can South Carolina’s Legislative State Ever Be Fixed?
IT’S NOT AS SIMPLE AS SOME WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE
By Jimmy G. Wiles || A month ago Cindi Ross Scoppe, associate editor of The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper, devoted her Sunday column to an expose of South Carolina’s “Legislative State.” Every South Carolina voter should have read her column.
Unfortunately, because of U.S. Senator Jim DeMint’s [...]
