The “Recovery” In One Chart
Remember when U.S. President Barack Obama said he wanted to “spread the wealth around?” And everybody went nuts because they assumed he was planning to steal...
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September Jobs Report Disappoints
The American economy created 148,000 jobs in September – well below the 180,000 experts were predicting. Meanwhile the nation’s labor participation rate – or the...
On This Day: Kennedy’s Cuba Speech
Below is the text of the address delivered by U.S. President John F. Kennedy to the American people on the evening of October 22, 1962...
Democrats To Hold #SCHacked Vigils
South Carolina Democrats will hold a series of vigils around the state this week to commemorate the one-year anniversary of #SCHacked – the largest state-level...
Experian Got Scammed
Experian – the credit bureau which received a controversial no-bid contract from S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley during last year’s #SCHacked scandal – has acknowledged being...
Godspeed, Lee Bandy
Legendary South Carolina political reporter Lee Bandy – whose thousands of columns shaped the Palmetto political landscape and whose legacy lives on in the many...
More SC Bureaucratic Bonuses
Last month this website broke the news of massive bureaucratic bonuses at South Carolina’s corrupt, underperforming pension fund. All told, fourteen staffers at the S.C....
Obama Addresses Health Care Fiasco
U.S. President Barack Obama urged Americans to “bypass” a health care website his administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build – acknowledging the...
Letter: Another Audit Of SC First Steps
Dear Editor, A financial audit of S.C. First Steps conducted by Greene, Finney & Horton, LLP of Mauldin, S.C. was released earlier this month. It...
Bomb Explodes On Russian Bus
A female “black widow” suicide bomber detonated an explosive device on a Russian bus in the city of Volgograd early Monday – killing at least...