South Carolina's elected representatives in Washington D.C. clearly weren't sold on the so-called "spending compromise" reached late Friday by the White House and congressional leaders. U.S. Reps. Jeff Duncan, Trey Gowdy, Mick Mulvaney, Tim Scott and Joe Wilson all voted against the deal cut by their
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South Carolina Republicans are at each others throats in the aftermath of a court ruling that blocked their right to hold closed primaries - including the "First in the South" 2012 presidential primary. What prompted this particular round of "Republican-on-Republican" sniping? Apparently, several
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South Carolina's lame duck U.S. Representatives doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses to their staff members during the fourth quarter of 2010, an analysis of congressional pay records shows. Former U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett (RINO-Westminster) who ran unsuccessfully for governor of
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Is somebody in the family of U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson handicapped? Physically, we mean? One of our readers recently spotted Wilson's BMW sport utility vehicle parked (legally) in a handicapped spot in the S.C. State House parking garage - where its driver was presumably paying a visit to S.C. Attorney
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A recent poll of South Carolina voters found that (surprise!) U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is extremely vulnerable in a GOP primary. According to the poll, only 42 percent of S.C. Republican primary voters approve of the job Graham is doing - compared to 77 percent who approve of the job U.S. Sen. Jim
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By an overwhelming majority, the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to repeal U.S. President Barack Obama's socialized medicine law - a party-line vote that marks the opening salvo in a protracted war against this costly, job-killing big government abomination. All 242 GOP lawmakers voted in
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Nikki Haley is South Carolina's new chief executive, people ... and having dominated headlines across the Palmetto state today, she now dominates our daily "post." Haley is our state's first female governor, first minority governor and, at 38, is the youngest governor in America. To read our coverage
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Welcome to Thursday's edition of the "post," our daily assemblage of links worth looking at ... We've still got reports to come on S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford's tax proposals and the 2011-12 S.C. House of Representatives agenda (both of which were released today), so stay tuned for those ... As usual,
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In September 2009, U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson (RINO-S.C.) was well on his way to becoming a Bob Inglis-style casualty of the Tea Party movement. That's when he took a few too many caffeine pills and yelled "You Lie" at U.S. President Barack Obama during a nationally-televised presidential address on socialized
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One of our loyal readers in the Holy City (a.k.a. Charleston, S.C.) was quite miffed upon receiving Monday's installment of the "post." Why? Apparently it wasn't "cleavage-y" enough for him. "You've already run out of cleavage shots for this?" he protested. Well, no ... we haven't run out of
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So here is this Monday's "post" - our first installment of the new year! Oh, and in an effort to make it abundantly clear that we're not just blasting out a random collection of sentence fragments, for today's "post" we've highlighted each article's headline (or rather our paraphrase of the headline)
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South Carolina is likely to gain a seat in the U.S. Congress when the Census Bureau releases its official 2010 state population totals on Tuesday .. a pick-up which would give the Palmetto state seven congressional districts for the first time since 1933. But where would the new district go? And how
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