A grassroots group of parents in South Carolina has organized a campaign to allow children to opt out of Common Core-aligned tests in the wake of a unanimous vote by the state’s Board of Education to replace the standards with “new” standards that are 90 percent aligned with Common Core.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is reaping the benefits of being the first to officially enter the race. Recent public polling shows a surge of support for Cruz among Republican primary voters.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will be visiting Iowa and South Carolina this week, for a series of receptions and town halls as he seeks to connect with Republican primary voters in these critical early primary states.
From the Chippewa Herald: CHARLESTON, S.C. — Wrapping up the first of what are sure to be multiple trips to South Carolina this year, Gov. Scott Walker said he hasn’t heard the call to run for president yet, “but there’s
The South Carolina chapter of the NAACP expresses outrage at the NCAA because the collegiate athletic governing body scheduled part of the women’s basketball tournament in the first Southern state to secede, where the capitol still flies the Confederate flag.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has chosen a former aide to Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina to lead her campaign in the South’s first presidential primary.
Some “new” school standards in South Carolina look very similar to the Common Core standards parents would like to get rid of.
Will he run? And can he win? The senior senator from South Carolina may decide to run for president in 2016, a move that would muddy the primary waters.
President Barack Obama tells students he’s disappointed Congress refused to pass gun restrictions after the Sandy Hook elementary massacre.
It’s a cold March in South Carolina. So President Obama, who travels even short distances in a 747, is warning about global warming.
The Star Ledger’s Paul Mulshine highlights two polls, one in South Carolina and one in Florida, in which Christie is stuck far back in the GOP pack in also-ran land.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker already has staff and time invested in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two states in the GOP’s presidential sweepstakes. Now he’s plotting what CNN describes as a “blitz” in South Carolina.
“We in the East are tired of paying billions of dollars for the federal government to mismanage federally controlled lands in the West,” says South Carolina State Representative Alan Clemmons.
The 2015 South Carolina Tea Party Convention was a phenomenal success on many fronts and caught the mainstream media totally off balance. It was too big to ignore, too American to trash, too positive to criticize, and too candid to berate.
A writer at Politico, the newspaper of record for Beltway insiders, takes note of Ted Cruz’s warm welcome from conservatives in South Carolina.
This weekend, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who is considered the conservative movement’s North Star, said Americans are counting on South Carolina voters to find and help Republicans nominate a bold conservative candidate who can win the White House in
Real estate magnate and potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will test the waters in the nation’s first-in-the-south primary state, South Carolina, this month. He will deliver a keynote address to the South Carolina Tea Party convention in Myrtle Beach. Joe Dugan, the head of the Myrtle Beach Tea Party and organizer of the annual conference, praised Trump—a solid opponent of amnesty—for making the trip down.
South Carolina Tea Party convention leader Joe Dugan, the head of the Myrtle Beach Tea Party, is putting his state’s GOP House members on notice: he wants them to vote against John Boehner for Speaker on Tuesday.
