[...] WASHINGTON – Democratic leaders secured the last two votes to move ahead on historic health care legislation, clearing the way for a Saturday night showdown on President Barack Obama's top domestic initiative.
In long-awaited speeches, centrist Sens. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana said they would stand [...]
Fair play to Cafe Press, which announced it is taking down all the Christianist Psalm 109:8 merchandise it was offering.
In Noblesville, Indiana Mrs. Palin gave her fans a taste of her governing style: she left with several hundred teabaggers holding unsigned books. Video and disgruntled fan comments here. [...] Earlier today, a reader sent me an interesting video clip of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-Hell) talking about national health care legislation in 1973. Unfortunately I can't embed the video here, but you can see it for yourself on a USC library website.
My reader said the clip had Thurmond [...]
Gov. Mark Sanford’s getting his neck stretched over the tree stump as legislators will be meeting next week in what’s called an ad-hoc committee to consider impeachment. Local Rep. Jim Harrison will be chairing it, according to Rep. Alan Clemmons and the [...]
Slagging the Bowl Championship Series these days is like being a fan of Nirvana in 1992. Rarely has trying to be a rebel looked so mainstream. Yeah, kid, you want a playoff. Woo. But, really, the bowl system and the BCS is pretty, pretty, pretty [...]
In a shrewd move to preserve market share, the ex-gay organization Exodus is opposed to the Ugandan legislation to make being gay a death penalty crime. Their reasoning is that if all the gays are killed, there'll be nobody to convert.' [...] 
We’ve been leery of U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio, because he seems like, oh, a competent version of Gov. Mark Sanford, but you can put the nail in the coffin of Fla. Gov. Charlie Crist, Rubio’s opponent in the Republican primary. Why might [...]
A goodly number of college football teams have live mascots. But the line of Ugas take the cake. We’re especially in thrall of the late Uga V, otherwise known as “Magillicuddy II.” He not only appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1997, [...]
Look for a slow Tweet week for Congressman Joe Wilson: his Twitter advisor, David All, is at a blogging conference in France also frequented by homosexualists. American ones. [...] 
According to Fox News, here's the crowd at Sarah Palin's first book signing event:
An 800-pound Greenwood County man has died after spending eight months in his recliner.
Damn, it seems like everyone and their mom is running for Columbia mayor. The latest entrant is local attorney and Nelson Mullins partner Steve Morrison. It was assumed that he would be battling with front-runner Steve Benjamin for the same votes. That’s now a [...]
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mullins McLeod has released his plan for creating jobs through a combination of tax cuts, small business assistance, renewed focus on recruiting and creating green jobs - and removing the Confederate flag from the State House grounds.
“The Confederate flag debate continues to hold our state [...]
We’re not going to say former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is an idiot, but she is the most ignorant dumbass with a serious shot at national elective office since then-Ala. Gov. George Wallace ran in 1968. It was like every time she opened her [...]
The ruling coming out of the State Ethics Commission on Wednesday has as much use as a fish needs a bicycle. Somebody please tell us what the hell point is it when The State’s lede on the story is about the most stupid goddamn [...]
It doesn’t happen that often anymore, thanks to the inclusion of lethal injection among the options, but a man condemned to death for murder got fried by Virginia’s electric chair on Tuesday. Gov. Tim Kaine, who is against the death penalty (he’s also pro-life, [...]
"It made me sick," said Bennett of the tax bill.
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Let's see if anyone in the SC conservative blogdom will call this out as wrong:Who’d of thought it? A “true” conservative and a liberal actually agreeing on something. Well, to be honest, openness in our city government should not be a party ideology.
It should be common sense.
I decided to have Georgetown City Councilman Paige Sawyer answer some questions that have been [...]
We have great memories of when Five Points was torn up, trees cut down and temporary orange fencing placed all over creation. Mmm, good times. Well, if you didn’t have your fill yet, Harden Street is getting more of a makeover.
Turns out, the Five Points [...]
How do you say “YARRRR!” in Somali? The crew of the MV Maersk Alabama heard it again, when it was attacked by Somali pirates for the second time this year.
The last time, it looked pretty bad for awhile. The captain was taken hostage, [...]
How lame is Auburn? Take Clemson, remove the lake, and put it in an even more remote location. Then add fans who like to toilet-paper the campus after a win (classy!). Obviously, our schadenfreude meter was red-lining this morning after being apprised of not one, but [...]
Both SC senators voted against breaking the filibuster against the nomination of David Hamilton to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. [...] 
Based on numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the VA estimates that 18 veterans a day — or 6,500 a year — take their lives, but that number includes vets from all previous wars. [...] 
