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US: South Carolina (News/Activism)

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  • Flashback: Lindsey Graham: GOP Should Work With Obama

    06/07/2014 8:07:41 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 6 replies
    newsmax.com ^ | 10/27/10
    As Republicans prepare for their likely takeover of the House and possibly the Senate after next Tuesday’s elections, at least one prominent GOP legislator thinks the party should prepare to work with President Barack Obama. That’s Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, The Hill reports. Lindsey Graham, ObamaHe says Republicans should engage the president on issues such as an energy bill that doesn’t include cap and trade, Social Security, and job creation. "My belief is that, if we get back power in the House, and get close in the Senate, that we ought to really clamp down on spending and...
  • Lindsey Graham: Save fight for debt ceiling (remember the fight that never came??)

    06/06/2014 1:57:14 PM PDT · by cotton1706 · 6 replies
    politico.com ^ | 1/1/13 | Bobby Cervantes
    Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday urged House Republicans to “save their powder” for the debt ceiling fight in a few months, instead of getting blamed for holding out on the Senate-backed fiscal cliff deal and then “fold like a cheap suit.” “Do the best you can, make it (the cliff deal) better if you can, but here’s reality: Right now all tax rates have gone up on all Americans,” the South Carolina Republican said. “You need to understand this: If we don’t get this tax rate problem fixed for all Americans, the economy is going to collapse, the stock market...
  • WOMEN’S CENTER SHUTDOWN

    06/06/2014 9:49:20 AM PDT · by Academiadotorg · 8 replies
    Campus Report ^ | June 3, 2014 | Deborah Lambert
    The recently announced closing of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina Upstate, effective July 1, 2014, has sparked outrage and disappointment in some quarters, particularly among those who say they viewed the Center as a place that welcomed those with alternative lifestyles. Eric Owens of The Daily Caller may have illuminated the backstory, saying that while school officials blamed efforts to cut spending for the decision, in a statement obtained by Inside Higher Ed, Chancellor Tom Moore said the center’s closure was “particularly hard, given the importance of their programming and the unfortunate...
  • Lindsey Finally Figures out Harry Reid is Crazy

    06/04/2014 1:07:40 PM PDT · by neal1960 · 33 replies
    Lee Bright for Senate ^ | 06/04/2014 | Lee Bright
    As Gomer Pyle Would Say: SHAZAM! In an astonishing admission of naiveté and ignorance, Lindsey Graham confessed that he didn’t know until yesterday how “disconnected from reality” Harry Reid is. For years, Graham has been lecturing Tea Party voters and other conservatives that only he, Lindsey Graham, knew his way around Washington and how to deal with Democrats. Not so much it turns out. “This really shows how disconnected from reality Lindsey Graham is,” said Lee Bright, the leading challenger to Graham in the June 10 Senate Primary. “He and John McCain just can’t wait to call people like Ted...
  • Jindal: Obama Told Governors He Doesn’t Trust the States

    05/31/2014 10:31:08 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 17 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | May 31, 2014 | Leah Barkoukis
    Fox News’ Sean Hannity sat down with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Thursday at the Republican Leadership Conference to talk about the accomplishments conservative governors have made across the U.S. “All of you inherited deficits you turned into surpluses, high unemployment now low unemployment,” Hannity said of Jindal and Govs. Rick Scott (FL), Rick Perry (TX), John Kasich (OH), Scott Walker (WI), and Nikki Haley (SC). “What can the Republicans in Washington learn?” Washington can actually learn a lot from states if they want to—it’s just common sense, Jindal replied. Lawmakers inside the beltway always talk about the things...
  • Trey Gowdy brings 'zeal for the truth' as head of House's Benghazi panel

    05/30/2014 4:05:42 AM PDT · by afraidfortherepublic · 55 replies
    The Washington Examiner ^ | 5-30-14 | Sean Lengell
    Rep. Trey Gowdy's rise from obscure South Carolina backbencher to chairman of the House's new special Benghazi committee took a quantum leap last October, when he stole the show at an otherwise mundane Republican news conference about the terrorist attacks. While only in his second term, the conservative Gowdy rushed to the podium and — with the conviction of a preacher and the erudition of a prosecutor — launched into a passionate yet disciplined plea for "justice" that mesmerized those watching, including his GOP colleagues on the dais. "No one has been arrested, no one has been prosecuted, no one...
  • Bladen County students in class on Memorial Day ( North Carolina )

    05/26/2014 10:29:51 AM PDT · by george76 · 6 replies
    WECT ^ | May 26, 2014
    BLADEN COUNTY, NC - Not every school district in southeastern North Carolina is out for the Memorial Day holiday. Bladen County is open for students and staff today. ... [Separate report from WBTV ... Students and staff at Cleveland County School reported for school Monday morning . School leaders also told WBTV that Memorial Day that the calendar committee decided to preserve spring break and designate Memorial Day as a snow make-up day. Students and staff in the Clover School District, in South Carolina, were also in class on Memorial Day. ]
  • Editorial: SC, US needs Lindsey Graham in the Senate

    05/25/2014 11:05:36 AM PDT · by Resettozero · 109 replies
    The State ^ | May 24, 2014 | Editorial
    COLUMBIA, SC — THE GREATEST danger to our nation is not that the Republicans will take over the Senate this fall — or that they won’t. It’s not that Hillary Clinton will be elected president in two years. Or Ted Cruz. It’s not even a nuclear Iran or an expansionist Vladimir Putin — though we ought to be a lot more concerned about those possibilities than the others. No, our biggest danger is that the political center will disintegrate. That we will cease to be able to find — indeed, that we will stop even trying to find — areas...
  • Three dead, two injured during shootings on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach

    05/25/2014 8:40:14 AM PDT · by neal1960 · 22 replies
    Myrtle Beach Online ^ | 5/25/2014 | Maya T. Prabhu
    Three people were killed and two were injured during multiple shootings on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach late Saturday. Parts of Ocean Boulevard were shut down while police investigated the shootings. The first occurred about 9:30 p.m. at Sixth Avenue South and Ocean Boulevard, Myrtle Beach police spokesman Capt. David Knipes said. One man was shot and taken to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center. Officers still were investigating the first shooting at about 11 p.m. when another shooting occurred at Bermuda Sands Resort, about seven blocks away at First Avenue North. Two people died immediately on the scene, and two...
  • South Carolina Legislature Approves Common Core Replacement Bill

    05/24/2014 3:31:46 PM PDT · by kingattax · 1 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 24 May 2014 | by DR. SUSAN BERRY
    South Carolina lawmakers have passed a bill that would review and replace the Common Core standards, but not immediately repeal them. H3893 passed the state Senate 42-0 and the House 80-26. It now heads to Gov. Nikki Haley (R), who is expected to sign the bill. As reported by the Heartland’s School Reform News, the bill would create a committee to review and replace the Common Core standards prior to the 2015-2016 academic year. It also would prohibit South Carolina from using the federally funded national Common Core-aligned tests. The bill launched a debate earlier in the year when the...
  • 45 senators, including vulnerable Dems, are asking the EPA to delay incoming emissions regulations

    05/23/2014 6:48:36 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Hotair ^ | 05/23/2014 | Erika Johnsen
    It’s only a small matter of time until the Obama administration finally, rapturously releases what its hopes will be the crown jewel of its rise-of-the-oceans-slowing climate-change agenda: Regulations capping the emissions from existing power plants, a.k.a., stamping out coal plants across the country. This set of regs is going to be even more complicated and controversial than the regulations for only new power plants the administration released last year, and as the AP obliquely explains, we’re likely to start seeing those “necessarily skyrocketing” energy prices Obama once mentioned pretty quickly here: Electricity prices are probably on their way up...
  • Tea party vs. establishment as primary season opens - The Washington Post

    05/05/2014 3:52:41 PM PDT · by FreeAtlanta · 11 replies
    WASHINGTONPOST.COM ^ | Monday, May 5, 12:19 PM | Dan Balz
    Between now and the end of June, more than two dozen states will hold primary elections. A major subplot of this year’s midterm elections is the competition between the Republican establishment and the tea party wing of the party. The establishment is fighting back, but has the tea party already won? The general election is still six months off. But Tuesday opens the summer preseason of intraparty contests, which starts with an important primary in North Carolina. Between now and the end of June, more than two dozen states will hold primary elections. After a July break, the preseason will...
  • SC Woman Can’t Get Medicine Because ObamaCare Says She’s a Dude (Video)

    05/22/2014 11:35:48 AM PDT · by servo1969 · 20 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | 5-22-2014 | Jim Hoft
    A South Carolina woman cannot get her medicine because Obamacare says she’s a man. The woman has been denied her meds for weeks. Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, May 22, 2014, 12:55 PM A South Carolina woman cannot get her medicine because Obamacare says she’s a man. The woman has been denied her meds for weeks. WLOS reported: The Washington Free Beacon reported: A family who was forced to buy healthcare is distraught after their daughter was denied medication because of an Obamacare error. Shelby Higdon needs her medication, but has been repeatedly denied it because the information in...
  • Ending Human Trafficking, Care For Our Veterans, Select Committee on Benghazi

    05/22/2014 8:22:58 AM PDT · by Resettozero · 3 replies
    Congressman Gowdy email ^ | May 22, 2014 | Trey Gowdy
    Human trafficking is the most common form of modern-day slavery, and it is a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States. Worldwide, human trafficking is the fastest-growing business of organized crime, according to the FBI. One of the chief responsibilities of government is to enforce the rule of law and protect human dignity through a functioning and fair justice system. This week, the House passed several bills to hold perpetrators accountable, protect exploited children, and provide victims the necessary services to recover and rebuild, including: H.R. 3530, the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act: boosts support and protection for domestic...
  • Will Lindsey Graham Get 50 Percent?

    05/21/2014 11:10:25 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 23 replies
    fitsnews.com ^ | 5/19/14
    REPUBLICAN” VOTERS COULD NOMINATE A LIBERAL ON THE FIRST BALLOT Liberal U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (RINO-S.C.) has done everything within his power to alienate Republican primary voters in “conservative” South Carolina – supporting far left Supreme Court justices, backing multiple tax hikes and shamelessly shilling for the Obama administration’s domestic spying apparatus. Among other things … He should be toast in a GOP primary, in other words … and yet he’s not. In fact Graham may win the GOP nomination outright on June 10 after failing to draw a “big name” challenger in his most vulnerable of primary seasons. You...
  • USC Upstate students plan to protest closing of center; Chancellor Moore responds

    As USC Upstate students prepare to protest last week’s closing of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies Center on campus, Chancellor Tom Moore announced that administrators are exploring ways to create a new center. The announcement that the center would close resulted in outcry from students and alumni, who said the center was a safe place to discuss feminism, race and LGBTQ issues. Some questioned whether the center was closed because of political pressure. Last month, state Sens. Lee Bright, R-Roebuck, and Mike Fair, R-Greenville, questioned the programming at the center, which for the past several years has planned...
  • CCSO: Surveillance video shows students throwing rocks, food from school bus

    05/19/2014 6:56:41 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 18 replies
    http://www.live5news.com ^ | may 16, 2014 | philip weiss
    Charleston County deputies say eight students have been arrested after they were caught on surveillance video throwing rocks and food at passing cars while on their school bus. According to an incident report, Durham Bus Services notified Septima Clark Academy that several students on bus 529 threw items at a passing vehicles on May 8, causing damage to a truck. Officers arrived on the scene to find a dent on victim's passenger side roof/window area and "food splashed across the grill, hood, and windshield." Deputies say none of the students on the bus admitted to throwing things at the truck....
  • Gowdy Names Capitol Hill Veteran to Benghazi Probe (Free Republic mentioned)

    05/19/2014 4:55:23 PM PDT · by kristinn · 36 replies
    Fox News ^ | Friday, May 16, 2014 | James Rosen
    SNIP To lead the Republican majority staff, Gowdy selected Philip Kiko, a key aide to Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., when the latter served as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and more recently a registered lobbyist for the Smith-Free Group, a K Street lobbying firm with a diverse roster of clients. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, swiftly welcomed Gowdy’s choice, calling Kiko “a man of unquestioned integrity with a record of distinguished service” in and out of Congress... SNIP However, emails obtained by Fox News show that some conservatives are unhappy with Kiko’s appointment, chiefly because of his recent lobbying...
  • Rand Paul tops 2014 campaigns’ wish list

    05/19/2014 2:59:16 PM PDT · by Resettozero · 8 replies
    Politico ^ | May 18, 2014 | Elizabeth Titus
    Challengers see themselves in the Texas senator, even in races where their odds of an upset are considered steeper than Cruz’s surprise victory over a GOP establishment figure two years ago. He’s made endorsements in the Oklahoma and Nebraska Senate races, plus the Nebraska gubernatorial race, and sent almost $26,000 to federal candidates through his leadership PAC. “Ted Cruz would be extremely helpful as an endorser and a fundraiser,” said C. Edmund Wright, a consultant to longshot South Carolina Senate hopeful Lee Bright, in an email. “Rand Paul and Mike Lee would be great also.” But, he said, “the reason...
  • Reminder: When Trey Gowdy threw down the gauntlet to the mainstream media on Benghazi questions

    05/18/2014 4:00:32 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 34 replies
    Hotair ^ | 05/18/2014 | Ed Morrissey
    This video comes from a press conference given by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) earlier this week [see update - from late last year], but Real Clear Politics picked it up today, and it’s definitely worth a fresh look. As the newly-appointed chair of the select committee investigating Benghazi, Gowdy has bristled at criticisms that all of the questions have already been answered — especially when those criticisms come from national media outlets who have shown remarkably little curiosity about the collapse of American policy in Libya. In his presser, Gowdy challenged the critics to answer the questions his committee...