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Is Jake Knotts working at the NSA now?
Tweet Slate brings our attention to this: NSA, FBI Spied on Muslim Public Figures’ Email, Used “Raghead” Slur in Internal Document I haven’t seen Jake Knotts lately. Could he be working at the NSA?
View ArticleAn old column elaborating on the ‘politicians (like Soylent Green) are...
TweetFollowing up on this post earlier today, here’s a column I wrote on a similar subject, back in 2007. The point, then as now, was that politicians are generally neither devils nor angels, which can...
View ArticleToby Ziegler didn’t get it, but Jed Bartlet did
Tweet Here’s my third post on my “people (even politicians) are people” theme… Two nights ago, as I was still thinking about my arguments on Cynthia Hardy’s radio show in opposition to the cynical...
View ArticleThe pettiest thing I’ve ever heard Nikki Haley say
TweetI refer, of course, to this quote regarding the unaccompanied Central American children, part of the flood that has precipitated a crisis on our southern border, who have been placed with...
View ArticleBenjamin to take a position on issue of refugee children
TweetI received a text this morning at 9:52 from Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin, responding to my earlier post about the children from Central America: Brad, Thank you for speaking up for the...
View ArticleOur governor’s mature, calm, professional op-ed piece
TweetDuring my vacation last week, I saw Nikki Haley’s op-ed piece taking issue with an editorial that took issue with her, shall we say, lack of precision with facts and figures. An excerpt from the...
View ArticleNikki Haley’s progression from backbench bomb-thrower to Establishment figure
TweetKristin Sosanie over at the state Democratic Party resurrects this from the archives today: Well, this could be awkward. Today Nikki Haley is holding campaign events with the SC Chamber of...
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Catching up with Chris Verenes, now a bank CEO
TweetChris Verenes at lunch today. Some of you — the ones involved in state politics or media at the time — may remember Chris Verenes, the young executive director of the SC Democratic Party back in...
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Some impressions from last night’s Ferguson forum at Eau Claire
TweetMayor Steve Benjamin addresses the assembly. First, a disclaimer: The community meeting to talk about issues related to events in Ferguson, MO, held last night at Eau Claire High School, was...
View ArticleA small reminder of why I like Lamar Alexander
TweetAs if I needed further evidence of the fact that Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee is the kind of guy we need a LOT more of in Washington, there’s this from a story today about how President Obama...
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Wow. NOW Mia McLeod is attacking Carolyn Click
TweetHere’s the latest escalation from Rep. Mia McLeod, who really seems to be going around the bend on this thing: Okay, Ms. Click, so you write front-page fabrications about race in Richland Two on...
View ArticleDems seem desperate, clutching at Graham’s out-of-bounds joke about himself,...
Tweet I initially learned of the incident from the Brad Hutto campaign, which has skewed my reaction: Hutto Blasts Graham for ‘white male only’ Comments “When behind the closed doors of a private club,...
View ArticleYet another reminder politicians are people
TweetTwo quick contact reports: Yesterday afternoon, I grabbed a cup of coffee with Mike Cakora, who recently returned to the blog as a regular commenter after a five-year absence. It was great to have...
View ArticleLe Pape n’est pas Charlie, soit.
Tweet As you know, Je ne suis pas Charlie. Well, as it turns out, if Google Translate is right, Le Pape n’est pas Charlie, soit. And not only that, but watch what you say about his Mama. I learned all...
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What happened to Mike Huckabee when I wasn’t looking?
TweetHuckabee in 2007. When I interviewed Mike Huckabee in 2007, I was fairly impressed. He stood out among self-styled conservatives of the day by speaking of the obligation to govern when in office,...
View ArticleAbout Giuliani calling Obama ‘anticolonial’
TweetTout le monde is distancing itself from Rudy Giuliani’s recent comments about POTUS at the 21 Club, including fellow Republicans. And let me display my right-thinking bona fides by saying, Bad...
View ArticlePetition to have GOP Senators jailed now has over 241,000 signatures
TweetAs of now, over 241,000 people have signed a petition on the White House website to have 47 GOP Senators put in jail. Here’s the entire petition. On March 9th, 2015, forty-seven United States...
View ArticleShowering Regularly Is Important
TweetIt’s almost as important as being polite. “Because I know many of you are going to the State House, which I love, just make sure you take a good shower when you leave,” Haley told the S.C....
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The governor has really crossed a line when she’s managed to provoke Lucas to...
Tweet When I saw the above headline this morning, I immediately assumed that the quote came from a Democrat. Not that most Republicans in the Legislature wouldn’t have been peeved at the governor over...
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The unraveling of Todd Kincannon
TweetI’ve never known quite what to think, much less say, about local attorney, former state GOP director and social media provocateur Todd Kincannon. Some of his detractors on the Web have less...
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