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Trump Mentally Can’t Do It As South Carolina Speech Is A Disaster
Trump tried to campaign in South Carolina and said that he was going to beat Joe Biden in five months, but the election is next year.
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South Carolina’s All Male Supreme Court Upholds Six Week Abortion Ban
The only all-male court in the United States has just voted to uphold a 6-week ban on abortion after managing to replace the lone woman judge.
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The Bipartisan South Carolina ‘Sister Senators’ Unite Again to Fight Restrictive Abortion Bill
They’re at it again. South Carolina State Senator Sandy Senn is a Republican woman fighting yet another legislative attempt to “shackle women” along side with her “Sister Senators.”
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Trump Goes On Delusional Rant About Windmills As 2024 Campaign Loses Power
Trump seems to have found his issue for 2024, and it is the scourge of wind power in the United States.
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DNC Makes South Carolina the State with First Democratic Primary
Finally, the all-important first primary looks like the Democratic Party.
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Biden Blasts Republicans For Blocking Bills And Demands Congress Pass Voting Rights
President Biden called out Republicans for blocking voting rights bills and demanded that Congress pass the legislation.
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South Carolina GOP Leader Who Pushed Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories Dies of Covid-19
Pressley Stutts, who served as an executive committee member of the Greenville County Republican Party and the leader of the Greenville Tea Party, died in South Carolina after a battle with Covid-19. Stutts had pushed back against vaccination efforts in his state and regularly shared Covid-19 conspiracy theories. In June, he insisted that vaccination efforts…
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Lindsey Graham: I Accept the Results of 2020 Election and I’m Moving on to 2022
Lindsey Graham has rarely shown any kind of backbone since Donald Trump took over the Republican party. He was fiercely opposed to Trump during the 2016 primary but is now one of his biggest enablers. And the former president is still obsessed with the claim that he was cheated out of the 2020 election. And…
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WATCH: Former General Michael Flynn Can’t Remember the Words of the Pledge of Allegiance
In many schools, children recite the Pledge of Allegiance. They know the words, of course. They recite the pledge each and every day. Michael Flynn, prior to joining Donald Trump’s administration, spent his entire adult life in the military. But during an event last night in South Carolina on Saturday night, the long-time military man…
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WATCH: Fox Host Lou Dobbs Tells Viewers not to Vote for Lindsey Graham
Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection bid is not going well. With less than two weeks to go, he is trailing Joe Biden by nearly 10 percentage points. And rather than trying to reach voters closer to the political middle, he has begun to lash out as people within his own party. A huge surrogate for Trump,…
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Jaime Harrison Mocks “Sad” Lindsey Graham for Ducking Latest Debate
There are a lot of things going wrong for Lindsey Graham right now. The South Carolina senator has been getting crushed fundraising wise and has taken to regularly begging for donations on Fox News. Graham is also up against a really tough challenger in Jaime Harrison. And Harrison has been getting under the senator’s skin…
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Jaime Harrison Rips Lindsey Graham Over his “Good Old Days of Segregation” Comments
Lindsey Graham has typically had an easy road to reelection since joining the United States senate in 2002. But his toadyism towards Donald Trump has made him one of the most unpopular lawmakers in America. Graham’s race against Jaime Harrison is now being watched by people all over the country. Incredible amounts of money are…
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Lindsey Graham Opponent Jaime Harrison Raises Another $1 Million in 24-Hour Period
Jaime Harrison has repeated his blockbuster fundraising success from Thursday by raising the same amount over the past 24 hours. He’s currently tied with Lindsey Graham in the South Carolina Senate race. Harrison, a Democrat, announced the initial numbers yesterday but had to provide an update on Friday because he’d pulled off the same fundraising…
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Jaime Harrison Raises Over $1 Million in 24 Hours in Race Against Lindsey Graham
Jaime Harrison has raised more than $1 million over the past 24 hours in his bid to unseat Lindsey Graham. The Democrat’s fundraising will add to fears that Graham can be defeated. Harrison announced the number on Twitter on Thursday. He was once seen as a long-shot to beat the Republican senator but his fundraising…
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Petitions Call for Chadwick Boseman Memorial to Replace Confederate Statue
Two petitions are calling for a memorial to Chadwick Boseman to replace a Confederate statue in the late actor’s hometown. The effort has garnered thousands of signatures. One petition calls for a Confederate statue in Anderson, South Carolina to be replaced with a memorial to the Black Panther star and has garnered more than 6,000 signatures. “Mr….
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3 Things We Learned From Joe Biden’s South Carolina Blowout Win
Former Vice President Joe Biden blew out Bernie Sanders in South Carolina and his win provided some insight into where the primary could be going.
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Obama Asks TV Stations To Drop Anti-Biden Ads Using His Voice
Former President Obama has asked South Carolina TV stations to stop running anti-Biden ads from a pro-Trump super PAC that use his voice.
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Trump Just Realized That Water Moves
Trump had another one of his “moments,” when announced that the flood water in North Carolina will be moving to South Carolina.
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Hillary Clinton Send Shock Waves Through The GOP As Poll Shows Tie In South Carolina
A new poll shows that Hillary Clinton has a chance to turn deep red South Carolina blue in November, and in the process turn the presidential election into a blowout.
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Bernie Sanders Congratulates Clinton But Vows To Fight On After South Carolina Defeat
Bernie Sanders congratulated Hillary Clinton, thanked his supporters, and vowed to fight on after losing the South Carolina Democratic primary.
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Iowa’s Steve Deace Threatens to ‘Eunuch Himself’ Over Cruz Campaign
Iowa radio host Steve Deace has decided on a manly solution to Cruz’s unmanly campaign performance by threatening to castrate himself
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Sanders First Jew to Win a Presidential Primary
Bernie Sanders not only upstaged Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, but Republican ideologies that would deny high office to non-Christians
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Trump Kicks Muslim Woman Out of Event Because She Stood Up
A Muslim woman stood up in silent protest of Trump’s attacks on Syrian refugees, and found herself escorted out to boos and catcalls
The GOP is Our Self-Made Punishment for Tolerating the Intolerable
The Republican Party has taken America for a nightmare ride, but this did not just happen overnight. We – Americans – let it happen
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Lindsey Graham Voted Against Sandy Aid, But Demands Hurricane Money For South Carolina
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has become a convert, who now believes in federal aid for natural disaster victims.
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South Carolina Not Feeling The Bern As Hillary Clinton Leads Bernie Sanders 66% to 12%
South Carolina isn’t feeling the Bern. Instead, the state appears poised to serve as a firewall for Hillary Clinton.
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Liberals Rise In The South As Bernie Sanders Draws Nearly 10,000 In South Carolina Visit
Bernie Sanders showed the power of a liberal message in a red state by drawing 9,200 supporters during a two-day campaign swing through South Carolina.
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Bernie Sanders’ Red State Revolution Causes 2 SC Rallies To Move To Bigger Venues
In a statement, the Sanders campaign announced that two upcoming rallies in South Carolina had to be moved to larger venues after crowd projections outgrew the original locations.
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South Carolina House Votes Overwhelmingly To Take Down The Confederate Flag
The final vote was 94-20 for removal and it came at 1:11 a.m. on Thursday morning.
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Graham Is Right; Confederate Flag Represents Racist and Treasonous Republicans
Nearly a week after a true and loyal Confederate racist brutally murdered nine innocent African Americans worshipping in a building they assumed was a safe sanctuary from Confederates, and after several days of negative publicity and pressure, both Governor Haley and Senator Graham suddenly think that maybe a symbol of treason and racism is not playing well with decent Americans.
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Bryan Fischer Claims Confederate Flag is a Democratic Problem
Fischer ignores 150 years of history since Lincoln, including the GOP’s Southern Strategy to attract all the racists over to their party
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John Oliver: The Confederate Flag Helps Us Identify the Worst People in the World
John Oliver said that the Confederate flag is one of those symbols that should only be used to help us identify the worst people in the world.
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The Cockroaches Scatter: Ted Cruz Can’t Give Back Conservative Group’s Money Fast Enough
The Council of Conservative Citizens says blacks are “the laziest, stupidest and most criminally-inclined race in the history of the world”
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Ted Cruz Whines as Republicans Get Called Out for Their Symbol of Racial Hate
Cruz says the flag is “a question for South Carolina” to decide but as I recall, that issue was settled in 1865 and SCs flag then was white
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South Carolina Killer’s Apparent Manifesto Surfaces Revealing His Ugly Racist Views
Assuming that Roof wrote the manifesto, there can be no question that the mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church was motivated by racism.
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Texas and South Carolina Take Two Very Different Views of the Confederate Flag
The State of Texas won’t allow the Confederate flag on its license plates, while South Carolina won’t even lower their’s to half-mast
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Lindsey Graham Says Rand Paul Nomination Would Put Him Into a Coma
With an almost comedic and absolute lack of self-awareness, Lindsey Graham claims Rand Paul is the GOP’s looming disaster
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Carly Fiorina’s Stunt To Taunt Hillary Clinton Outside South Carolina Hotel Backfires
After Fiorina testily fielded eleven minutes of questions, a campaign aide abruptly ended the press conference on her behalf.
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Lindsey Graham Blames President Obama For The Mess That He Helped Cause In Iraq
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham insisted on Monday that the Iraq War was not a mistake.
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Big Win For South Carolina Teachers As Stephen Colbert Funds $800K Worth Of Grant Requests
Stephen Colbert announced that he plans to fulfill every existing grant request made by SC public school teachers on DonorsChoose.org.
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This Is A Republican Elected Official’s Version Of Welcoming Refugees To America
Take heart my Hispanic and Latino brothers and sisters. You’re not the only ones whose presence in the U.S. makes Republican’s skin crawl. At least if the parsed bigotry of South Carolina Republican Representative Trey Gowdy and some of his colleagues and constituents is any indication.
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Republican Presidential Hopefuls Put Their Buffoonery on Display in South Carolina
Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham, and Ted Cruz, got together and agreed to collectively sound like Elisabeth Hasselbeck
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Fox & Friends: Priest Says Don’t Trust President Who Doesn’t Fear Eternal Damnation
Father Jonathan Morris took to Fox & Friends to push fear of eternal damnation while ignoring the Constitution’s No Religious Test Clause
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The Revolution is Not Over, My Friends
Conservatives have for a long time controlled the discourse on freedom and liberty, but these are liberal ideals, and we must take them back
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S.C. Says Constitution Allows Discrimination Against Women So Gay Discrimination Is Okay
The crux of South Carolina’s argument in support of discriminating against gays is that if it constitutionally permissible to discriminate against women, then it is perfectly legal to discriminate against gays.
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Allen West Says Justice System Worked So Stop All The Fuss About Walter Scott Killing
West wonders “how long the media and black activists will try and milk this one in a case where the justice system clearly worked”.
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A Bridge Too Far: Crowdfunding For Killer Cop Michael Slager Falls Flat
As of Thursday afternoon, Officer Michael Slager hadn’t even reached his first 1000 dollars from crowdfunding sites.
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The Newest “Joe the Plumber” Washes Up On The Shore
I could be wrong, but I suspect Louis Jordan will be sailing into murky political waters very soon.
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A Song Of Hate On An SAE Party Bus
I’m ashamed of America. Not because I hate America, but because I love America. By now you’ve probably seen the YouTube video by some members of the Unversity of Oklahoma chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon singing hateful, racist lyrics on a party bus that would embarrass the KKK.
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President Obama Obliterates Any Republican Hopes That Keystone XL Will Be Approved
President Obama appeared to crush all Republican hope that Keystone XL will ever be approved while he is president during a town hall in South Carolina.
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A Look Inside a Weekend Of Organization For South Carolina Democrats
I attended the South Carolina State Democratic Party-sponsored John Spratt Issues Conference in Myrtle Beach late last week. The conference featured a number of prominent Democrats.
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The Koch Agenda Brings Pain And Woe To People In Republican Controlled Red States
Because they own most of the Republican state’s governors and legislatures, it is there that the Kochs’ ideology is doing the most damage that their GOP surrogates are unrepentant about.
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GOP Lawmaker Shows Us Some Valentines Love by Declaring Women “A Lesser Cut of Meat”
How do we handle all the love that Republicans show women?
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A Murder Here, A Suicide There, Ask Republicans If They Care!
In yet another senseless gun episode, a highly respected, accomplished and beloved professor, Raja Fayad, was shot to death on campus on the afternoon of Thursday, February 5, 2015.
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Anti-Tax Republican Governors Are Raising Taxes On The Poor and Middle Class
Even though most Republican governors are wary of going all-in on tax cuts for the rich and corporations like trickle-down failure Kansas governor Sam Brownback, they are going all in to raise taxes on their poor and middle class residents to avoid putting any “financial strain” on their wealthiest donors and their corporations.
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Please Pass (On) The Popcorn: Democrats Need To Take 2016 General Election Seriously
It is time that the left started taking this election seriously, along with Romney and Jeb Bush and the rest, even those we view as stupid, misogynist, and out of touch wing nuts
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South Carolina Continues Its Quest To Be The Reddest State In The Nation
Some view South Carolina as the reddest state in the nation. After November 4th, it just might be.
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Cheaters Never Win – Winners Never Cheat? A Close Look At November 4th
This will be my last mid-term general election contribution. At least in my state of South Carolina, it ain’t pretty.
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Lindsey Graham ‘Jokes’ That White Men In Male-Only Clubs Will “Do Great” If He’s President
CNN received an audio recording of comments Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made to an all-male Irish-Catholic organization in South Carolina earlier in the month. While speaking to the group at a private meeting, Graham stated that “white men who are in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency.”
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The Ervin South Carolina Bombshell. Could It Affect Nikki Haley’s Chances?
For the first time in this mid-term election cycle, South Carolina politics suddenly got interesting. The state’s just been politically “Ervinized.”
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Prominent Tea Partier Says Michael Brown’s Parents Received ‘Taxpayer-Funded Abortion’
Former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party Todd Kincannon sent out a tweet Wednesday evening saying Michael Brown’s parents shouldn’t be upset because they are pro-choice Democrats and “they got a taxpayer-funded abortion.”
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South Carolina Congressional Races. You’ll Recognize The Winners.
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I recently assessed the governor’s race and the statewide races, all squarely in the Republican column unless all that voter fraud we’ve heard so much about comes rising to the fore. I’d like to limit my next observations to the seven races for the Congressional House Seats.
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A Great Time For Gay Marriage? Not So Fast!
There are two issues guaranteed to get the wing-nuts to the polls even if they have to crawl on their bellies over barbed wire in a typhoon. The first is anything to do with not being able to let their kids under ten play with howitzers; the second voting magnet is anything to do with the possibility that Bob and Bruce might marry.
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The Latest And Not Greatest Candidate News From South Carolina
South Carolina has the lowest percentage of women in its legislature of any state in the union. The supreme irony is that the only elected woman whose voice remotely counts in the state is arguably the worst governor in the nation, and that’s saying something.
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White Cop Charged With Assault For Unprovoked Shooting Of Black Driver During Traffic Stop
A white highway patrolman was charged with aggravated assault and battery after an unprovoked shooting of a black driver. The shooting was captured on the trooper’s dash cam.
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The Heritage Foundation Hits Up The Little Guy
The Heritage Foundation is located right in the middle of the DC power corridor and well it should be, as arguably the most powerful right-wing think tank of them all.
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Voters Needed. Poll Workers Even More So
Have you ever been curious about the inner workings of a polling place? That’s where you go to vote for local state and national candidates, ballot issues and advisory questions.
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What the Media Calls Agendaless Is Really the Republican Plan To Destroy America
Political pundits are wont to claim Republicans obstruct governance and oppose policies and agendas that benefit the entire nation because they are clueless and lack issues, policies, and agendas, but that is not the case.
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Gun Sense Prevails in Dixie as Open Carry Bill Shot Down in South Carolina Senate
An open carry bill that would have allowed citizens to openly carry firearms in public without a permit, was resoundingly rejected in SC.
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Give Those With Mental Health Issues and Addiction Problems a Break; Elect Democrats!
Let our Democratic candidates run on a platform of both mercy and pocketbook practicality. The issue is out there for the taking
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President’s State of the Union Speech Strikes Most of the Chords Dems Were Waiting For
I watched President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night. I was one of the 15% who did in my area of South Carolina.
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The Real World Story of Human Lives Sacrificed at the Altar of Deregulation
I went to one of those “poisoned citizens” meetings the other night. It was a community meeting called by a couple of outside law firms that have just sued a number of corporate polluters for freely releasing their deadly environmental cargo upon unsuspecting and vulnerable neighbors. The community gathering was held in a Spartanburg,…
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A Venture Into Real Democracy On Red State Capitol Grounds
Dennis S. attended Truthful Tuesday, a demonstration in Columbia, SC on Tuesday and provided a detailed breakdown of the event.
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South Carolina Violates the Constitution With Plan For Mandatory Prayer In Public Schools
As the new year is getting underway, there is a renewed push to force prayer into South Carolina public schools.
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South Carolina Ethics Commission Gives Mischievous Lawmaker a Pass
A South Carolina legislator illegally charges taxpayers for Walter Williams flights. Ethics committee says ignorance of law is excuse.
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Gun-Loving Republican Governor Proudly Tweets Picture Of Christmas Present–A Pistol
On Thursday morning, the day after Christmas, Republican Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina tweeted out a picture of one of her Christmas presents.
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South Carolina’s Lee Bright Wants to Replace Lindsey Graham – and the United States
Bright says, “If the Tenth Amendment won’t protect the Second, we might have to use the Second to protect the Tenth.”
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Republicans Set The Constitution Ablaze While Killing One Million American Jobs
Since 2009, Republicans have broken their oath of office repeatedly by deliberately undermining the government’s ability to function and creating as much economic damage by killing Americans’ jobs.
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A New Low: How the Tea Party Trolled Tim Scott Into Selling Himself Out
South Carolina senator Tim Scott declined an invitation to the March on Washington. Knowing his constituency, you can understand why.
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Meet Roan Garcia-Quintana, South Carolina’s non-Native Tea Party Nativist
Havana-born Roan Garcia-Quintana doesn’t want America to be for others what it has been for him
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The Republican Remains a Total Joke With The Election of Mark Sanford
The people who elected Sanford typify the segment of America that prevents the nation from ever moving out of the 19th century, and they are not confined to South Carolina.
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South Carolina Voters Confused Because Elizabeth Colbert Busch Is On The Ballot Twice
One last dirty trick? Voters in South Carolina’s District 1 are expressing confusion because they are only allowed to vote for Elizabeth Colbert Busch once, but her name is on the ballot twice.
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A Look Inside A State Democratic Convention A.K.A. Vote for Colbert Busch Tomorrow
There’s a lot of listening, clapping and jumping up and down at a Democratic state convention. Other than that, very little for delegates to except try to mobilize voters for Elizabeth Colbert Busch.
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Proving They Have No Values, South Carolina Republicans Are Ready to Elect Mark Sanford
Republican trespasser, court order violator, Appalachian Trail hiker, ethics violator, and post-abandoner Mark Sanford is proving that Republicans are bereft of any values at all.
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What You Need To Know For the Elizabeth Colbert Busch/ Mark Sanford Debate
This evening at the Citadel, the two candidates for the SC District 1 Congressional seat, will debate for an hour and fifteen minutes. Here is what you need to know.
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Mark Sanford Sinks His Own House Campaign. Can Elizabeth Colbert-Busch Take Advantage?
More troubles for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District candidate, Mark Sanford. He’ll face a judge after his special election. This presents an opportunity for Elizabeth Colbert-Busch
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It Is Time For Democratic Women to Usurp the Power of Male Republicans
By any measure, America is in decline. The fault lies almost completely with male Republicans. Democratic women must usurp the power.
An Old Foe Is Returning in 2014, and He Could Defeat Nikki Haley
In all likelihood the 2014 South Carolina Governor’s race is going to be a replay of the 2010 race, not good news for incumbent Nikki Haley
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Republicanism as Mental Illness: House GOPer Warns of Genocide from Background Checks
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC), who compared immigrants to animals, believes that background checks will lead to a Rwanda-esque genocide.
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15 Republican Governors Would Rather Kill Their Own Citizens Than Expand Medicaid
15 states with Republican governors are refusing to expand Medicaid even though the first 3 years are free and never more than 10% in state costs.
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There Must be a Better Way to Compromise Than By Bringing Fiscal Harm to Seniors
POTUS Obama has revived a plan that will cost those who can least afford it, money. Elderly seniors could lose up to $1,000 monthly by 85.
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Mark Sanford’s Very Republican God Redeems His Career: He Is Forgiven So You Must Forget
Former Congressman and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is about as immoral and unethical as they get, but God is reviving his career.
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Powerful Democratic Operatives in D.C. Help South Carolina Republicans Retain Control
South Carolina Democrat Jaime Harrison is a powerful lobbyist for the Podesta Group. He’s about to become the Chairman of the state party.
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What the DINOs In The Senate Have Really Cost Us
The five Democrats who killed the assault weapons ban will further embolden the million caliber wackjobs to make this the most dangerous county on the planet, wars notwithstanding.
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ALEC Education Bill Hides Privatization Behind a Reading Skills Disguise
An increasing number of states have passed a bill whose main component is increasing reading skills. It’s really another privatizing effort
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Sit on Your Ass and Watch Democracy Pass: People Need to Act Not Just Talk
The legislation being proposed by the GOP House is pathetic. Yet, little is heard from Democratic constituents. Activism is the answer.
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The Bill to Fund the Government Is the Latest Bit of Stand-up Comedy From House Republicans
The primary purpose of House Bill 933 is to perpetuate the bloat of the defense budget and decimate domestic programs.
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Millions of America’s Gun Nuts Aren’t Hiding Their Yearning for Civil War
After years of manipulation and buying off elected officials, a large percentage of radical right-wingers are planning a civil war.
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No Harm, No Foul as Rich Folks Have No Reason To Fear Sequestration
On March 1st a decision will be made that could impact millions for at least 9 years. Jobs will be lost and people will go hungry, but not the rich.
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Republicans Love to Regulate When it Benefits Their Wealthy Friends
A long-time and oft-repeated Republican criticism of Democrats is the tendency to regulation. But, so do Republicans, especially for friends.