SC: Long Lines To Vote

Yet another study is confirming yet another piss poor national ranking for South Carolina …
According to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study, voter wait times in the Palmetto State averaged 25 minutes in 2012 – fourth-worst in the nation. The study – which was first reported by The Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier – mirrored [...]

SC Voting Debacle: Quantified

Voting lines in South Carolina were among the longest in the nation in 2012, according to a nationwide survey conducted by The New York Times.
Obviously that’s no surprise in light of the “Richland County Robbery” – which we maintain was a deliberately rigged election designed to illegally suppress white turnout in one of the state’s [...]

Wilson: U.S. Constitution Under Attack

THE LEFT’S ASSAULT ON AMERICAN LIBERTY
By Bill Wilson || For much of its 236-year history, the federal government has accumulated new power by whittling away at the essential protections afforded to American citizens under the U.S. Constitution.
In recent years this wholesale abandonment of our founding principles has rapidly gained momentum — accompanied by a skyrocketing government [...]

Incentives: An Accounting

LIBERAL MSM GETS IT RIGHT, NIKKI HALEY AND HER BUREAUCRATS GET IT WRONG
We rarely link to stories in The New York Times because more often than not the paper is tripping over itself to apologize for big government – serving as the leftist edge of an increasingly leftward-moving mainstream media.
However as they say in South [...]

Curtis Loftis Featured In New York Times

(Columbia, SC) Sunday’s New York Times highlighted on the front page of its business section South Carolina State Treasurer Curtis Loftis’ calls for increased ethical standards, disclosure requirements and more meaningful oversight of the investments of our nation’s public pension funds.
The facts show that state employees, retirees and taxpayers across the country are not getting [...]

Obama’s Fall Girl

By Nancy Morgan || The New York Times is reporting that the mixed messages received from the White House on the Egyptian crisis were the fault of the State Department:
A president who himself is often torn between idealism and pragmatism was navigating the counsel of a traditional foreign policy establishment led by Mrs. Clinton, Mr. [...]

Vols’ Hostess Report Coming?

The NCAA could be close to releasing its report on the controversial Tennessee Volunteer hostess program, known as “Orange Pride.”
At least that’s what a pair of sources close to the UT program tell FITS.
It’s been over a year since The New York Times published a story that referenced questionable recruiting tactics employed by the UT [...]

Friedman Trashes “Tea Kettlers”

Thomas L. Friedman – whose writings have been fawned over ad nauseam by S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford – is criticizing what he calls the “Tea Kettle” movement, saying it lacks substantive ideas and is only interested in “letting off steam.”
Here’s an excerpt from Friedman’s latest opinion-editorial piece in The New York Times:
… affecting elections and [...]

Reading A Book Every Day Can Be Fun

Like many Americans, we were inspired by the tale of Westport, Connecticut retiree Nina Sankovitch, whose quest to read a book every single day for a whole year is rapidly drawing to a successful conclusion.
Except, no … not really.
Are you kidding us?  We could care less what some liberal Yankee biddy described by the New [...]

Obama Ripped Over Unemployment Crisis

U.S. President Barack Obama doesn’t “get” the unemployment crisis that has a record 15.1 million Americans currently out of work.  Nor does he seem to be spending much time worrying about it, either.
That’s according to a scorching critique of Obama’s performance on economic issues – from the left – by columnist Bob Herbert.
From Hebert’s most [...]

Bravo, WaPo

Finding conservative wisdom in the pages of the Washington Post is a lot like finding objective reporting in the pages of the New York Times … it’s a needle in a haystack experience, people.
But it happens every once in a blue moon … which is why we felt compelled to draw your attention to a [...]

SC Capital Becomes Face Of Recession

Greenville, S.C. has its bustling new city center and Charleston its historic charm, but Columbia’s Main Street has become the sad face of the American recession, at least according to a piece that ran in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.
It used to be that Columbia was – in the words of one of [...]