Archive for July, 2012

Senate Candidate Kerry Wood Supports Chick-Fil-A

Petition candidate Kerry Wood, running for SC Senate against Glenn Reese invites YOU to come to the Chick-Fil-A in Boiling Springs, located at 3902 Highway 9, Boiling Springs, SC 29316 at noon. First 100 people who walk up, say “hi” and let Team Wood put a bumper sticker on their car will be treated to [...]

July 31, 2012  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Dept of Labor: Delay Layoffs Until After Election

Alana Goodman at CommentaryMagazine.com reports: The automatic cuts to the defense budget are set to go into effect on January 2, 2013, and federal law under the WARN Act required employers to give workers a minimum of 60 days notice before potential mass layoffs. That means layoff warning notices could go out to hundreds of [...]

July 31, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Thank You Andrew Breitbart

Tim Wells at FullFrontalNerdity.com encapsulates what Andrew Breitbart did for so many activists just starting out. I just can’t yet get enough of remembering what Andrew did for us; still miss him. So occasionally, when I find someone of like mind, I’ll share it with you. Have a read. Here’s my favorite sentence: Thank you [...]

July 30, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Deedee Vaughters talks about Senate cowardice re: Nikki Setzler

More evidence of SC legislative moral corruption and cowardice:

July 30, 2012  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Bill to require Federal employees to pay their taxes

File this under “Duh” Pete Kasperowicz @ The Hill.com reports: The House will vote on legislation as early as Tuesday that would require the federal government to terminate workers with “seriously delinquent” tax debts. The bill also would prohibit the government from hiring people who are late on their tax payments. The Federal Employee Tax [...]

July 30, 2012  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

ETV

You may know I’m a Commissioner for ETV, it’s a “board member” position. I go to Columbia for meetings, we review what the organization is doing, make suggestions, take votes, have discussions. I appreciated ETV’s services prior to becoming a Commissioner, their live stream of the SC House and Senate legislative sessions, and some cool [...]

July 30, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

Texas runoff Tuesday. Jim DeMint vs. the World

Okay not exactly, but on Tuesday Texas will choose a Senator to replace Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Jim DeMint got involved early for Ted Cruz. Since then Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and others have backed Cruz, as have many of the grassroots organizations such as FreedomWorks. David Catanese at Politico has a rundown, [...]

July 29, 2012  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

SC Ballot Fiasco. Focus on the real enemy.

I found myself yet again this weekend engaged in trying to focus people’s attention on fighting the real enemy in the SC ballot fiasco. There may be legitimate problems with some county GOP officials and some people may have some issues with decisions the state GOP made. But as I have contended from day one: [...]

July 29, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  6 Comments

Palmetto Payback – Read and Do.

Curtis Loftis has done a great job of getting the word out … there is a lot of unclaimed money that he wants to return to South Carolinians. I saw him talking about that online, and just to see if it was anything I could post here for Spartanburg Tea Party folks to take advantage [...]

July 29, 2012  Tags:   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

UN Fails to Reach Deal on Arms Treaty

From the FoxNews.com website: U.N. member states have failed to reach agreement on a new treaty to regulate the multibillion-dollar global arms trade. Some diplomats and treaty supporters blamed the United States for triggering the unraveling of the month-long negotiating conference. Hopes had been raised that agreement could be reached on a revised treaty text [...]

July 28, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments