About That SC Legislative State Story …

… IT’S ACTUALLY WORTH READING
“Big and bold above our fold” today is a 1,000-word editorial from contributor Jimmy G. Wiles of Myrtle Beach, S.C. – the first of what we hope will be many guest submissions published on this website in 2013.
Missed it?  Click here …
Wiles’ longish piece explores the origins of South Carolina’s legislatively-dominated [...]

Soaring Medicaid Rolls: Nikki Haley’s “Priority”

GOVERNOR SPENDS $30 MILLION TO FURTHER INFLATE SOUTH CAROLINA’S MEDICAID POPULATION 
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) released a statement earlier this week that should make every South Carolina taxpayer sick to their stomach.
In its statement, SCDHHS boasted that it had “met its promise” to add 65,000 eligible” children to South [...]

Medicaid Records Thief Linked To Democratic Politicians

A 36-year-old Swansea, S.C. man arrested for stealing hundreds of thousands of Medicaid records has ties to several prominent Democratic politicians.
Chris Lykes, an employee of the S.C. Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) for the past ten years, also worked as an insurance salesman for Sunrise Family Health Benefits – a company owned by [...]

Stimulus? Not In South Carolina …

Remember earlier this year when we kept blasting the proposed trillion-dollar federal “stimulus” plan – calling it nothing but a “bureaucratic bailout” for state agencies that had (have) failed miserably to live within their means?
Yeah … “we told you so.”
According to statistics released Wednesday by S.C. Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom, the vast majority of so-called [...]