2017-04-09 18:20
We’ve written in recent months about a lack of law enforcement presence on South Carolina interstates – especially in Spartanburg County. That wasn’t the case this Sunday… Read More
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2017-04-08 20:34
MSM OUTLETS EXPOSE COZY “QUINNDOM” RELATIONSHIP … Two days ago, we noted both The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper and The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier we… Read More
2017-04-08 19:33
CHASING THE PAPER … A questionable loan received by S.C. attorney general Alan Wilson during his 2010 campaign is the latest paper trail being chased in #ProbeGate – the suddenl… Read More
2017-04-07 21:57
TWO $3,500 CONTRIBUTIONS SCRUBBED … S.C. governor Henry McMaster amended his initial 2018 gubernatorial campaign finance filing this week – removing $7,000 worth of campaig… Read More
2017-04-07 19:52
RED INK RISING … We write a lot about the national debt on this website. And with good reason. It’s obscene, people. Out of control. Currently, government’s debt sta… Read More
2017-04-07 18:35
MORE BLOODSHED IN PALMETTO PRISON SYSTEM … Four inmates at a maximum security prison in Columbia, S.C. have been found dead, the head of the S.C. Department of Corrections (SCDC) told… Read More
2017-04-07 18:18
SOME GOOD NEWS FOR DONALD TRUMP … U.S. president Donald Trump scored his first major victory in Washington, D.C. this week – the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch as the next associa… Read More
2017-04-07 17:00
WEAK JOB GROWTH … The American economy added an anemic 98,000 new jobs during the month of March, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). T… Read More
2017-04-07 16:09
WHERE’S THE “TRUMPHORIA?” While Obamacare lives, tax reform dies and America reverts to its failed interventionist foreign policy, there’s bad news on the econom… Read More
2017-04-07 15:46
LET THE SNITCHING BEGIN … Deals for immunity are reportedly being offered – and accepted – by multiple individuals intimately connected to #ProbeGate, an ongoing crim… Read More
2017-04-07 14:49
MASSIVE BORROWING MEASURE ON LIFE SUPPORT … A bill that would borrow hundreds of millions of dollars for South Carolina’s government-run institutions of higher learning appears… Read More
2017-04-07 14:04
Kris Wampler became the first Republican candidate for South Carolina’s Fifth Congressional District to condemn the American airstrike against Syria in retaliation for reports of war c… Read More
2017-04-07 13:56
DONALD TRUMP’S MISSILE STRIKES “VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW …” U.S. president Donald Trump has completed his 180-degree shift on American policy in Syria. Just da… Read More
2017-04-07 12:07
DONALD TRUMP COMPLETES DISAPPOINTING 180-DEGREE SHIFT … U.S. president Donald Trump – acting without congressional authorization and in direct contravention of his previously ar… Read More
2017-04-07 01:22
BUT SHOULD THEY BE? Details of a yet-to-be-completed investigation of the Coastal Carolina University cheerleading squad have been leaked to multiple media outlets … and they are… Read More
2017-04-06 20:06
NOW HE’S RUNNING FOR THE SENATE? Sensing (correctly) that the bloom may be off the rose for many supporters of Donald Trump, establishment Republicans are reintroducing the most promin… Read More
2017-04-06 19:36
BACKROOM DEAL NETS $1 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL SCHOLARSHIP MONEY … South Carolina’s fledgling school choice program might be expanding this year after all … but not by much… Read More
2017-04-06 18:46
BIG MONEY HAUL … Republican gubernatorial candidate Catherine Templeton got her 2018 candidacy off to a strong start this week. The labor attorney – who ran the largest agency i… Read More
2017-04-06 18:03
RED LINES … HERE WE GO AGAIN … We addressed this issue yesterday but it appears as though U.S. president Donald Trump’s pivot from non-interventionist to warmonger-in-chi… Read More
2017-04-06 17:14
REPUBLICANS FINALLY UNITE ON SOMETHING … Republicans in the United States Senate stuck together this week and invoked the so-called “nuclear option” in the battle to confi… Read More
2017-04-06 16:44
OBAMACARE REPEAL, TAX REFORM ARE DEAD IN THE WATER … Republicans in Congress have once again failed to reach an agreement on the repeal of former president Barack Obama’s social… Read More
2017-04-06 14:29
PURCHASING INFLUENCE? It’s been a slow news week so far when it comes to #ProbeGate – the ongoing criminal investigation into corruption at the S.C. General Assembly. That’… Read More
2017-04-06 12:34
MASSIVE $826 MILLION TAX HIKE LOOMS … South Carolina lawmakers have found a way to “fix” the state’s pension fund problem. The only problem? It amounts t… Read More
2017-04-05 21:07
CROSSING RED LINES … DROWNING IN RED INK … U.S. president Donald Trump made it abundantly clear during his 2016 presidential campaign that America was not going to be the… Read More
2017-04-05 19:56
IS NIKKI HALEY THE “LOVE CHILD OF ADLAI STEVENSON AND NIKITA KRUSHCHEV?” Staring down the Russian rep. at the UN, Amb. Haley asks, "How many more children have to die before Russ… Read More
2017-04-05 18:21
Heavy rain, strong winds, flash flooding, hail two inches in diameter and yes – tornados – ripped across South Carolina on Wednesday afternoon. The unusually strong spring s… Read More
2017-04-05 17:29
GREG HEMBREE UNVEILS “3-5-7” PLAN … Sensing that a proposed five-year, $1.8 billion gasoline tax hike – one with an annual recurring tax increase of $600-800 mi… Read More
2017-04-05 15:58
RUNOFF LIKELY IN UPSTATE SPECIAL ELECTION … A special election for South Carolina Senate District 3 (map) is hitting the homestretch – with primary voters set to cast their… Read More
2017-04-05 15:21
FREEZING OUT THE COMPETITION … So get this … there is such a thing as alcohol-infused ice cream. No really. You can buy ice cream with alcohol in it. And to think w… Read More
2017-04-05 14:19
SOLID START … The premiere of the fourth season of Bravo TV’s Southern Charm drew 1.25 million viewers in the 18 to 49-year-old demographic, according to TV By The Num… Read More
2017-04-05 13:24
MORE SPIES, MORE TARGETS … Former national security advisor Susan Rice wasn’t the only official in the administration of former U.S. president Barack Obama responsible… Read More
2017-04-05 00:52
BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES … Less than a month after absorbing the last blast of winter, the deep south is about to be rocked by a major spring thunderstorm system. Forecasters (to… Read More
2017-04-04 23:08
SCARY LABOR PARTICIPATION DATA … We’ve written a lot about the labor participation rate being the real employment indicator to watch. Why? Because labor participation is t… Read More
2017-04-04 20:50
SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN PALMETTO STATE’S LIQUOR LIMITATIONS … WHO BENEFITS? “Big Liquor” won a big victory in South Carolina last week … or so it seemed. … Read More
2017-04-04 19:20
LABOR LAWYER WILL CHALLENGE HENRY McMASTER … Turns out there was no “cold water” after all. Catherine Templeton – a labor lawyer who ran the largest agency in s… Read More
2017-04-04 17:53
GOVERNOR’S VIEW OF BORROWING BILL LEAVES A LOT TO BE DESIRED, THOUGH … After months of dancing around the issue, South Carolina governor Henry McMaster finally took a firm… Read More
2017-04-04 16:13
GOP TRIES AGAIN ON HEALTH CARE … Republicans in the U.S. Congress had one job. Seriously. One. Friggin’. Job. For the last six years, the party of “limited gov… Read More
2017-04-04 14:18
BARACK OBAMA’S ADMINISTRATION REALLY WAS SPYING ON DONALD TRUMP … So long as U.S. president Donald Trump is threatening pro-free market lawmakers on the health care issue… Read More
2017-04-04 13:32
Columbia, SC — The research is in: South Carolina is a great place to do business. In a report released today, Palmetto Promise Institute (PPI) unveils the most enterprise-friendl… Read More
2017-04-04 13:20
MORE “PORT POLITICS?” For the second time in as many weeks, the board of the scandal-scarred, results-challenged S.C. State Ports Authority (SCSPA) will gather for an “emer… Read More
2017-04-04 12:52
SUBWAY BLAST KILLS FOURTEEN … A suicide bomber killed at least fourteen people and injured dozens more when he detonated an explosive device on a subway train in St. Petersb… Read More
2017-04-04 11:42
SOUTH CAROLINA DISSED … In case you missed it, the University of North Carolina won the NCAA men’s college basketball championship this week – the school’s third tit… Read More
2017-04-03 18:01
THIS SHOULD SPAWN SOME REAL ROAD RAGE … For years, this website has said that South Carolina taxpayers were providing the scandal-scarred state Department of Transportation (SCDO… Read More
2017-04-03 17:20
SPECIAL INTEREST DOLLARS FLOWING … Several of the Palmetto State’s most influential trial lawyers – and left-leaning politicians – are raising big bucks on behalf of… Read More
2017-04-03 16:33
DID WE MISS APRIL FOOL’S DAY? U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley claims she was offered the job of secretary of state by Donald Trump – but turned him down. That&r&hell…Read More
2017-04-03 15:08
MORE INDICTMENTS COULD BE COMING … A statewide grand jury tasked with issuing subpoenas, receiving testimony and returning indictments in an ongoing investigation of public corru… Read More
2017-04-03 14:32
“GRASSROOTS MOM” OUTLINES AGENDA … Dear Editor, Thank you for the opportunity to write, explain why I’m running and hopefully put an end to the sniping I’ve re… Read More
2017-04-03 14:20
HENRY McMASTER “LIVID …” The director of the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW) may lose her job over a text message she allegedly sent making fun of her… Read More
2017-04-03 13:26
HENRY McMASTER NEEDS TO FILL THIS CABINET POST … One of S.C. governor Henry McMaster’s first moves in office earlier this year was to demand the resignation of embattled S.C. De… Read More
2017-04-03 12:24
“THANK GOD FOR MISSISSIPPI (STATE)” To be the best you’ve got to beat the best … Or, have Mississippi State do it. And then beat them … The latter path… Read More
2017-04-02 13:28
SOUTH CAROLINA GOES DOWN IN NATIONAL SEMI-FINAL … Its dancing days may be done for now, but the University of South Carolina men’s basketball team left no doubt this season… Read More
2017-04-01 19:59
BIGGER BATTLES LOOM, THOUGH … Efforts to ram a massive “infrastructure” tax hike through the South Carolina General Assembly sustained an early procedural defeat this week… Read More
2017-04-01 16:13
PROPERTY TO BE UNLOADED AT LONG LAST … Thirteen years after it was shuttered, a government-owned port property in the South Carolina Lowcountry is finally being sold – although… Read More
2017-04-01 15:36
GAMECOCKS, BULLDOGS BATTLE FOR TITLE … The Southeastern Conference has stormed to the pinnacle of women’s college basketball. In fact, this Sunday’s national champio… Read More
2017-04-01 01:38
“PROSECUTION TEAM” FORMED … Three Republican solicitors have joined Democratic special prosecutor David Pascoe in pursuing #ProbeGate – the ongoing, e… Read More
2017-03-31 20:16
EMBATTLED GOVERNOR ALLEGEDLY MISINFORMED BY KEY ADVISORS … S.C. governor Henry McMaster’s decision to stick with embattled political advisor Richard Quinn has been describe… Read More
2017-03-31 19:22
FINANCIAL RECORDS UNDER SCRUTINY … Two-and-a-half months ago we filed a report addressing some of the allegations against suspended S.C. Rep. Jimmy Merrill – a re… Read More
2017-03-31 16:50
BARACK OBAMA’S ECONOMY IS OFFICIALLY IN THE BOOKS … The book was officially closed on the economy of former U.S. president Barack Obama this week when the Bureau of Economi… Read More
2017-03-31 15:09
LAWMAKERS SAY POWERFUL LEADER “DIDN’T WANT THE DEBATE …” S.C. Speaker Jay Lucas personally lobbied members of the Democratic-controlled Medical, Military, Publi… Read More
2017-03-31 14:25
CORE FUNCTIONS … BURNING DOWN … A busy section of Interstate 85 in north-central Atlanta, Georgia collapsed in a fire late Thursday – creating commuter havoc in what is a… Read More
2017-03-31 01:05
MEET “REINHOLD NIEBUHR” It takes awhile to arrive at the point, but Gizmodo’s Ashley Feinberg has an interesting piece up this week detailing her successful quest to l… Read More
2017-03-30 21:21
TAX DOLLARS ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED … Our “Feel Free to Get Freaky” rule is pretty simple: We don’t care who elected/ appointed officials (or bureaucrats) bump uglie… Read More
2017-03-30 19:44
STATUS QUO WINS AGAIN … It frustrates us to no end, but the school choice issue appears to be stuck in neutral in South Carolina … once again. Crazy, right? Absolutely. &n&hell…Read More
2017-03-30 17:45
THAT IS THE QUESTION … Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has all but promised to block any continuing resolution due April 28 that includes funding for the southern border w… Read More
2017-03-30 17:16
CHRISTIAN SOURA RESIGNS … South Carolina’s top-ranking health care bureaucrat is leaving his post … Christian Soura, former S.C. governor Nikki Haley’s choice to le… Read More
2017-03-30 16:03
THIS IS NOT “DRAINING THE SWAMP …” U.S. president Donald Trump made a terrible decision earlier this year to support a partial repeal of Obamacare – a mistake which… Read More
2017-03-30 15:39
SENATOR NAMED “ELECTED OFFICIAL OF THE YEAR” BY ADVOCACY GROUP In case you missed it, the medical marijuana debate at the S.C. State House – which should be a simple, strai… Read More
2017-03-30 15:09
FRINGE CANDIDATE NO MORE? This website holds social conservative activist Sheri Few in low esteem – and we’ve said so on numerous occasions in the past. We think she’… Read More
2017-03-30 14:48
WEAPON FALLS FROM SUSPECT’S “BODY CAVITY” Need a reason to support “open carry?” Here you go … A .38 caliber handgun fell from the “body cavi… Read More
2017-03-30 12:08
POLITICAL APPOINTEES WILL NEVER PROVIDE REAL ACCOUNTABILITY … Much is being made of South Carolina’s so-called “new” ethics commission – a panel of political a… Read More
2017-03-29 23:53
PROBE-RELATED? S.C. attorney general Alan Wilson‘s spokesperson is leaving her job at the agency. Hayley Thrift Bledsoe – one of three young political operatives referred to with… Read More
2017-03-29 23:14
LECHEROUS MAYOR DEFENDS “GOD COPPING” The (Columbia, S.C.) Free Times has an interesting story up this week in which Steve Benjamin – the mayor of South Carolina&rsquo&hell…Read More
2017-03-29 21:35
AGENCY CITES SPECTER OF ONGOING INVESTIGATION … By a 5-3 vote, the S.C. State Ports Authority (SCSPA) voted this week to suspend consulting contracts paid out to embattled neo-Confede… Read More
2017-03-29 20:53
YES … Make no mistake: We believe Donald Trump made a major tactical error by throwing his lot in with those “Republicans” pushing a partial repeal of Obamacare. That effo… Read More
2017-03-29 18:22
“POWER” BATTLE LOOMS … Iconic American energy provider Westinghouse is bankrupt – a development which has dealt a major blow to the American nuclear power industry… Read More
2017-03-29 17:26
ARE PRO-POT LOBBYISTS “SPIKING THE BILL?” A medical marijuana bill that appeared poised to sail through a South Carolina House of Representatives committee did not receive a vote… Read More
2017-03-29 16:29
Columbia, SC – Treasurer Curtis Loftis and the Unclaimed Property Program returned the largest amount of money in the program’s history to one lucky South Carolinian. T… Read More
2017-03-29 16:04
CHAOS REIGNS … This website has argued for years that politicians and their appointees should have absolutely nothing to do with running a port – and all the evidence suppo… Read More
2017-03-29 14:18
IS THE GOP FIELD RE-OPENING? None of them will say so publicly, but four prominent Palmetto politicos are privately recalibrating their calculus when it comes to running for governor of… Read More
2017-03-29 01:00
JESUS AND TAXES … We have no idea who David Royce is … nor do we particularly care who wins this week’s special election to fill a seat on Berkeley County, S.C. scho… Read More
2017-03-28 21:10
UBER CLASSY? We quit frequenting downtown Columbia, S.C.’s Five Points district years ago. At least after dark. How come? It just got too dangerous … We’ll sti… Read More
2017-03-28 20:03
CANNABIS CONFLICT … The debate over legalizing medical marijuana is about to hit DEFCON 1 (a.k.a. “cocked pistol”). Proponents of medical marijuana legalization are a… Read More
2017-03-28 17:43
NON-PROFIT PADS POCKETS OF NEO-CONFEDERATE CONSULTANT … The hits, they keep-a-coming … A week ago this website did an exclusive report on yet another unfolding front assoc… Read More
2017-03-28 15:04
FEEL THE EMPOWERMENT, LIBERAL WOMEN … We believe in second chances. And third chances. And maybe even fourth chances. And far be it from us to tell somebody else how many… Read More
2017-03-28 11:59
WHAT SOUTH CAROLINA SHOULD LEARN FROM LATE PROGRESSIVE ICON … The life and times of Pug Ravenel went down long before we entered the world of Palmetto politics. In fact he… Read More
2017-03-27 21:26
SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN ADDRESSES LATE-TERM “DISMEMBERMENT” ABORTIONS … South Carolina’s largest social conservative organization, Palmetto Family, has launched a new… Read More
2017-03-27 20:44
CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE LAUNCHES TWO SPOTS … Former South Carolina state lawmaker Ralph Norman is on the air with not one but two television advertisements in this spring’s… Read More
2017-03-27 19:49
“GET OUT THE WAY!” File this one under the militarization of local law enforcement … Behold! The Bozena Riot, a “remotely operated, armored vehicle designed to handl… Read More
2017-03-27 19:17
ADMINISTRATION SWITCHES GEARS AFTER BITTER HEALTH CARE DEFEAT … Still smarting from a major setback on health reform, the administration of Donald Trump pivoted Monday to the iss… Read More
2017-03-27 18:03
THEY’RE SPYING ON ALL OF US! There was high drama last week when Rep. Devin Nunes announced at the White House that he had seen evidence that the communications of the Donald Trump cam… Read More
2017-03-27 17:21
FIFTH DISTRICT VOTERS HAVE A CLEAR CHOICE … Over all and parts of six decades I covered politics for newspapers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Washington, D.C. wrapping up my j… Read More
2017-03-27 15:45
WHAT GIVES? In 2006 I was a consultant on Thomas Ravenel’s victorious campaign for treasurer of South Carolina. In 2013 I filmed a scene with him for the premier episode of his r… Read More
2017-03-27 14:18
UNSOLVED MYSTERY NEARING RESOLUTION? Last August, this website posted an extended piece on what allegedly happened to Brittanee Drexel, a 17-year-old girl from Rochester, New York who d… Read More
2017-03-27 13:50
AMERICA MUST RETURN TO ITS FOUNDING PRINCIPLES … Because our founders held a deep appreciation for history, they were hostile to concentrations of power in the hands of a few. T… Read More
2017-03-27 12:47
LONDON CALLING … The problem with big government is it always always responds to big problems by growing itself … which is rarely effective. And invariably results i… Read More
2017-03-26 21:24
SINDARIUS THORNWELL LEADS SOUTH CAROLINA INTO UNCHARTED TERRITORY … South Carolina’s men’s basketball team made history with its first-round NCAA tournament win over… Read More
2017-03-26 19:29
HOW IT ALL STARTED … We did a lengthy post last week on the “past, present and future” of #ProbeGate – an ongoing investigation into corruption in South Carolina sta… Read More
2017-03-25 18:56
REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT RAISES BIG BUCKS … A black tie gala honoring S.C. governor Henry McMaster and his wife, first lady Peggy McMaster, raised $700,000 for the new chief execut… Read More
2017-03-25 13:35
DON’T SNOOZE ON SOUTH CAROLINA … “You snooze, you lose.” Except when it comes to March Madness, apparently. A well-rested Sindarius Thornwell scored twenty-fou… Read More
2017-03-24 20:32
HEALTH CARE BILL PULLED AFTER GOP LEADERS FAIL TO GET ENOUGH VOTES TO ENSURE PASSAGE … In a shocking defeat for Republicans – including U.S. president Donald Trump &n&hell…Read More
