On Thursday, Hillary Clinton, appearing at a campaign rally at Brookland Baptist Church in West Columbia, managed to contradict herself in mere seconds, asserting that voters should not vote for her because she’s a woman, then claiming one of her primary qualifications for the presidency is that she is a woman.
“I hear people say we’ve got racial problems. We don’t have a skin problem in this country, we have a sin problem in this country,” said Huckabee, who appealed to the mostly African American audience. As a GOP presidential candidate, Huckabee is working to broaden his appeal to black voters.
A shocking video posted on YouTube claims to show members of the Bloods street gang attacking white Klan members in Columbia, South Carolina on Saturday.
University of South Carolina Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier says that he supports removing the Confederate flag from public spaces and even thinks that “all” the coaches in South Carolina support the move.
Author Isabel Wilkerson argued the removal of the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina was “perhaps, truly the beginning of the end of the Civil War” on Friday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. Wilkerson said, “Well, of course, South Carolina
“Due to the overwhelming response for Saturday’s Rally in Phoenix, Arizona the venue has been changed to accommodate the thousands of people expected to attend and the event will now take place at the Phoenix Convention Center,” Trump’s press secretary Hope Hicks wrote in a press release.
University of Pennsylvania Professor of American Social Thought and History and former Chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Mary Frances Berry argued that South Carolina should pass a minimum wage law in addition to removing the Confederate flag
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed a bill into law Thursday that will bring down the Confederate flag outside the Statehouse, a move that seemed unthinkable only a month ago in this Deep South state that was the first to secede from the Union.
James Driggers, 33, and his wife, Crystal, 36, were arrested and charged with child neglect after allegedly forcing their daughter to live with only a flashlight, a roll of toilet paper, a whistle, and a watch.
SOUTH CAROLINA—GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee attended a town hall event in Anderson, South Carolina, where hundreds of people attended, including Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC).
Chairman of the Benghazi Committee Trey Gowdy (R-SC) spoke to reporters about GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s controversial comments on immigration as a 2016 issue.
If Jimmy Carter is “history’s greatest monster,” as deemed by the good people of Springfield in “The Simpsons,” then President Obama is “history’s most deluded jester.”
South Carolina – GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee rolled up his sleeves and served voters as he mingled at a Chick-fil-A in Anderson, South Carolina.
“I would say that it was a little interesting when the Huffington Post ran the story. They could clearly see it was Mitt Romney in a video clip that Jake Tapper asked me to respond to, so then the Huffington Post runs an article saying I had said what was clearly Mitt Romney’s comment,” Huckabee explained to Breitbart News.
The national media largely ignored a statement that condemned hatred, racism and violence with passionate clarity, issued by the Sons of Confederate Veterans – a group that bans members with racist view or connections.
After an incident where aspiring entertainer Bree Newsome was hailed as a “shero” by the left, the media, and Black Lives Matter activists for removing a Confederate Flag from the South Carolina State House, another woman has been arrested for defacing a monument and bringing a weapon onto Capitol grounds, to no acclaim whatsoever.
Cultural critic and writer Michaela Angela Davis argued that the removal of the Confederate flag on South Carolina’s statehouse by protester Bree Newsome was “very American” and “also a feminist act” on Friday’s “CNN Newsroom.” Davis said Newsome’s actions were
South Carolina House Minority Leader State Representative J. Todd Rutherford (D) said that a protester who took down the Confederate flag at the South Carolina statehouse “became a hero to many people because so many of us wanted to go
Former South Carolina State Representative Bakari Sellers commented on ESPN Radio’s podcast “Capital Games” about the Confederate flag debate in South Carolina. The Confederate flag has been the subject of protests since the fatal shooting of nine people at a black church
According to a Tuesday Suffolk University/USA Today survey, 70 percent of respondents said they do not want the federal government imposing a ban on the sale or manufacture of the Confederate flag.
Behold the smeared, clownish face of politics in America today.
North Carolina and South Carolina beachgoers should beware; there has been a rash of shark attacks against beachgoers in their states.
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina argued that while the removal of the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds was South Carolina’s decision, “a nation that forgets its history, loses its soul” on Wednesday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.” Fiorina agreed with Ingraham
Book burning. Movie banning. Hitler. Stalin. Potato. Potatoe. When it comes to the Left, it is always only a matter of time before they show their fascist colors. We’re seeing it all over the place in a media frenzy that
There is great power in symbols, especially in an era when so many people have been taught to emote rather than thinking. The quick surge of emotion people feel upon viewing a potent symbol can be bottled and used in politics. It’s excessively charitable to call the current flag battle a “debate,” because it mostly consists of one side screaming that anyone who hesitates to dump that flag into the wood chipper of historical oblivion is either a racist, or an accessory to racism in the first degree. There isn’t much in the way of measured reason involved here.
The Confederate flag was once cheered by thousands of freed slaves. It happened in 1863, when the CSS Alabama caught a Union ship off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. The spectacle was so thrilling to the locals, particularly the Malay and
An employee at a Confederate memorabilia store in Summerville, South Carolina became very angry when CNN’s cameras tried to film the store in a segment on the Confederate flag broadcast on Tuesday’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.” The man, who did not identify
MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews accused RNC Chairman Reince Priebus of only “pretending he cared about black rights” by standing with SC Governor Nikki Haley (R) during her speech calling for the Confederate flag’s removal from South Carolina’s Capitol grounds. Matthews
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that he would take the Confederate flag down in a speech in Virginia on Tuesday. Trump said of the flag, “I think they should put it in the museum, let it go, respect whatever
Kentucky Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul argued that the Confederate flag should be “in a museum” and is “inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery” on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Kuhner Report” on Boston’s WRKO. Rand said
Nine dollars per minute. Fifty-three thousand American dollars per day. This is what it will take to defeat “that damn Confederate flag.” Is that worth it to the taxpayers of South Carolina?
Malik Zulu Shabazz, the national President of the New Black Panther Party, has announced two rallies in Charleston, South Carolina in the wake of shooting deaths of nine black Christians that prosecutors say was committed by America-hating white racist Dylann Roof.
From the Huffington Post: WASHINGTON — Many Republican presidential contenders say the question of whether to keep the Confederate flag flying outside South Carolina’s Statehouse is a matter for South Carolinians to work out among themselves. Democratic candidates like Hillary
“The issue is not the flag so much as it is how people think,” said the only African American GOP presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson, to the Wall Street Journal. “What’s in their heart? You can get rid of every Confederate flag in the world but if you’re still being motivated by the wrong emotion it’s not going to solve any problem.”
Santorum said, “It was brought to my attention late Sunday evening that an individual who led a group cited by the murderer who terrorized the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston had given to one of my past political campaigns. Rather than put more money back in the pockets of such an individual, my 2012 campaign committee will be donating the amount of his past donations to the Mother Emanuel Hope Fund to support the victims of this tragedy.”
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) declared “it’s time” for the state to remove the Confederate flag from its capitol while asking that “the focus still remain on the nine victims of this horrible tragedy” in a statement on Monday. Haley
The dead are not yet buried in Charleston, yet the South Carolina legislature is to meet in special session Tuesday to debate the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the Capitol grounds, reportedly at the behest of Gov. Nikki Haley. Whether the flag belongs there or not–and I would argue that it does not–the flag had nothing to do with the nine murders in a church last week. To tear it down in such haste is to dishonor the dead–and to accept a collective guilt that knows no end.
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST Breitbart News investigative journalist and host Matthew Boyle will be talking about all of the most important news in politics. He will be joined by co-hosts Michael Lucchese and Garrett Reno. They will be interviewing and speaking to a number of guests about the 2016 Republican and Democrat primaries, the Charleston shooting, the conservative rebellion against Boehner, and other important news stories.
Romney’s position differs from the position historically taken by conservatives and Republicans.
Members of black churches in California responding to the horrific attack on Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina Wednesday are expressing their grief, and noting that the attack recalled prior eras when racism was more widely accepted. Meanwhile, the LAPD upped its patrol around black churches, the Los Angeles Times reports.
