Archive for November, 2012

Odd Man Out, Again

Monday night 6 out of 7 of your council folks voted for a Clean Air resolution pledge, see SHJ story here. Roger Nutt was the dissenting vote. This pledge was another of the Upstate Forever / Ten at the Top / Let’s turn our decision making over to the “sustainability” police and trample on property [...]

November 29, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  9 Comments

The Cow and the Ice Cream

From a teacher in the Nashville area: “We are worried about ‘the cow’ when it is all about the ‘Ice Cream. ‘The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching 3rd grade. The last Presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest. I decided we would have an [...]

November 29, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Fiscal Cliff Is an Opportunity for GOP to Undo TARP Mistake

Joel B. Pollak has this take at Breitbart.com: The fiscal cliff debate is a reprise of the TARP debate of late 2008, with the Republicans under pressure to do “something” to stave off economic collapse. This time, the threat is about a crisis that may be about to happen, rather than one that has just [...]

November 29, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Meeting of the SCGOP’s Election Reform Task Force Dec 5, 3:30 PM

Following the candidate filing challenges this past spring and the Richland County Election Commission debacle this month, Chairman Chad Connelly has called a meeting of the SCGOP’s Election Reform Task Force. Task force members, Republican elected officials, former candidates, and interested persons are welcomed to attend. The meeting is closed press. The task force, appointed [...]

November 29, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint leaves door open to White House bid

Well these type of headlines sometimes seem to be a stretch … read for yourself, a story by James Rosen, reported in SHJ: DeMint was asked repeatedly by a reporter Wednesday whether, in the wake of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s defeat in the Nov. 6 election, he is weighing a White House run in [...]

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

Citizens for Efficient Govt Meeting Tuesday 12/4

The CFEG Will meet to eat at 6:00 P.M. Meeting begins at 7:00 P.M. Tuesday, December 4, 2012 At FATZ Located behind Fuddruckers on Hwy. 295 Our speaker will be Senator Lee Bright

November 28, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Letter to Lindsey

Here is something for you to do … today … now … before you close out. If you or anyone else you know would like to sign your name to the letter, please respond to Phil Kerpen at phil@americancommitment.org to let him know. so … send an email to Phil above, telling him to add [...]

November 28, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Richard Gosnell writes a Letter to the Editor

From today’s SHJ: The election and this year’s Supreme Court ruling for Obamacare tyranny will further the undermining of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and our republic form of government. The Democratic Party’s presidential win was built on the continued false promise of abundant life through government and the propaganda [...]

November 28, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Voting Rights Case

Julián Aguilar reports at the Texas Tribune: The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Friday to hear arguments on whether Congress overstepped its authority when it renewed the 1965 Voting Rights Act. A key provision of the act, Section 5, requires that the federal government — either a district court in Washington or the U.S. Department [...]

November 27, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

File this under “We’ll see”

CINDI ROSS SCOPPE reporting at The State on the determination of former Attorney General Travis Medlock and former Attorney General Henry McMaster to bring about ethics reform in SC. Both are convinced that more reporting — of income, of campaign donations, of campaign spending — must be central to any reform. Both realize that at [...]

November 27, 2012  Tags:   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments