S.C. GOP chairmen: DeMint like a ‘Jew’ who is ‘watching pennies’
Region: South CarolinaTwo South Carolina GOP chairmen declared to a local newspaper that criticism of Senator Jim DeMint is unfair because he is like a "Jew" who is "watching our nation's pennies." James S. Ulmer Jr., who chairs the Orangeburg County GOP, and Edwin O. Merwin Jr., who chairs the Bamberg County GOP wrote a letter to South Carolina newspaper "The Times and Democrat" that said: "There is a saying that the Jews who are wealt... more
Views: 1275Fed Court Sends SC Gov’s Stimulus Case Back to State
Region: South Carolina
Try as he might to leave stimulus money on the table, it appears likely that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will be force-fed $700 million from the federal government. On Monday, Sanford lost in his attempt to have a federal court, as opposed to South Carolina’s Supreme Court, hear two lawsuits [1] that seek to force him to accept the stimulus money. South Carolina is facing a projected $871 million budget ... more
Views: 1046As Deadline Looms, SC Gov Takes Fight to Federal Court
Region: South Carolina
The urgent court battle over South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s desire to dictate the spending of, or refuse to accept, $700 million in stimulus money will have to wait until next week [1]. South Carolina’s Supreme Court was supposed to hear arguments today in a case [2] brought against the state by two students asking that the $700 million be spent on education, which is how the state legislature budgeted ... more
Views: 1043A History Teacher's Thoughts on the Inauguration
Region: South CarolinaToday I thought of an inauguration where a man who was very popular with the people took over as president from a man who was villified and harrassed. The American people could not wait until the old president could leave so the new president could come in a bring sweeping change that was needed to right the wrongs of the new administration. The American people who could not wait until the old president, who trampled o... more
Views: 1256Control Over Women's Uteruses Spurs Councilwomen's Protest Over Church Rezoning
Region: South CarolinaA Beaufort County Councilwomen spoke out against a rezoning proposal by a Bluffton Catholic Church because of Chuch policies against women. Council Women Laura von Harten said she could not support the rezoning because "I don’t want to support anything that will perpetuate that kind of ideology that would prevent me from being an active leader in an organization, and I don’t like the way they want to contro... more
Views: 1484How Conservatives Can Use Citizen Journalism in 2009
Region: South Carolina
Some final thoughts from the 2008 Election and the Video Your Vote Project: Good luck to President-Elect Obama, he is going to need it with the current situation of the country. The situation was not the same as when he or Senator McCain announced their candidacies for president. Citizen Journalism: If the Democrats achieve their goal of reinstating the Fairness Doctrine to silence conservative talk radio then Citize... more
Views: 1585Economic Woes Hit Bluffton, SC as Election Approaches
Region: South Carolina
Bluffton, South Carolina is unique among most towns it size in the United States. In the past, the town’s economy relied on either agriculture or from the shrimp and oysters in the nearby rivers and creeks that feed into the Atlantic Ocean. Because Bluffton is located between Beaufort and Hilton Head Island, the once small town has undergone many changes. Many of residents work in Hilton Head Island&rsqu... more
Views: 1866Stone Age People Used Paraphernalia
Region: South CarolinaEvidence has been found by the researches in South America which proves that the Stone Age tribes prepared mixtures of hallucinogenic herbs which were sniffed. An American archaeologist and a British researcher are credited with discovery on a Carribean island, Carriacou to be exact. They found things which included mixing bowls made up of ceramic and tubes which where used for inhaling powders or fumes. They are esti... more
Views: 1259Gay Ad Fans Flames in South Carolina
Region: South Carolina
Posted by Josh Katz to findingDulcinea South Carolina canceled its contract with an international advertising company because of promotional posters saying, “South Carolina is so gay.” The advertising firm attempted to demonstrate the appeal of a number of American cities to gay Londoners by placing such posters in reference to five U.S. locations. South Carolina was the only locale to complain about the ... more
Views: 1154Cops out of their Cars due to Hike in Oil Prices
Region: South Carolina
Looking to be silly, about what we heard upto now is the uneven rise in the crude oil prices and also the daily necessities of the normal human will affect the lifestyle of the people in the world. Now the Cops in South Carilona is not allowed to take the patrol cars to their homes to save the budget assigned to their department as the prices of oil and the gas are suddently going to increase in the last few months. Wi... more
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