It has become convenient, as of late, for media talking heads and pundits to dismiss legitimate criticism of Obamacare, and other Obama-preferred policies, as simply an extension of racism. Opposition to these programs, it is claimed, must be the result
A new poll released by Clemson University on Tuesday shows that Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is the least popular Republican incumbent currently holding a statewide office in South Carolina. Compared to Governor Nikki Haley, whose favorable rating is 70 percent, and
Benjamin Jealous, the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is leaving his job at the end of 2013. Jealous said he wants to be a University professor and spend more time with
COLUMBIA,SC–Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin and ForAmerica chairman Brent Bozell stopped at the Columbia, South Carolina statehouse on Tuesday for a press conference to attack Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is up for re-election next year and facing multiple challengers, for
Organizers of the event honoring the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech on Wednesday reportedly ignored suggestions from Republican officials to invite three prominent black conservatives–Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), T.W. Shannon, the 35-year-old speaker of
When the question of why America’s sole black senator Tim Scott (R-SC) was not invited to speak at the events commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the march on Washington, USA Today columnist DeWayne Wickham smugly asked, “And he should have been
A conservative group which helped organize the famous March on Washington says it was left out of the seminal civil rights event’s 50th anniversary celebration held Wednesday. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was one of the six big organizing groups
The left has hijacked the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King and twisted it into a perverted calling card of big-government activism, political grandstanding, and ideological segregation. For the last few days, Americans nationwide have been celebrating the 50th-year anniversary
On CNN’s “The Lead,” panelists discuss the 50th anniversary of the civil rights movement’s march on Washington D.C. and complaints from some conservatives that Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), one of two currently serving black U.S. Senators, was not invited to
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News on Wednesday that he will soon be heading to South Carolina for an event to support Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC), one of the most conservative members of the House. Paul will also be
Conservative star State Senator Lee Bright (SC-12) tells Breitbart News he will formally announce his candidacy for U.S. Senate Tuesday. “It’s time for someone new to represent the people of South Carolina in the U.S. Senate,” said Bright. “Tim Scott
One of the biggest of many falsehoods circulating in the mainstream media about immigration reform is that House Republicans feel no pressure to pass a bill because they represent predominantly “white” districts–as if opposition to the “Gang of Eight” legislation
The College Republican National Committee released a 95 page report of polling and focus groups recently showing the Republican Party lost young voters in the 2012 elections. A “dismal present situation,” the report states. The study is being used to show
After the 2011 redistricting of the Illinois congressional map, two of the state’s districts were featured on Slate’s list for the 20 most gerrymandered in the country–Illinois’s fourth, and seventeenth districts. After redistricting, the seventeenth became more compact and rational.
On May 26, MSNBC political analyst Michael Eric Dyson described Virginia lieutenant governor nominee E.W. Jackson as “a black puppet” who carries a white supremacist message. Jackson is a black man, and is urging Christians in the black community to
(AP) – Republican Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor whose extramarital affair derailed his political career, returned to Congress on Wednesday with his Argentine “soul mate” at his side. “I do,” Sanford said, taking his oath. “Congratulations, you are
Trey Gowdy was interviewed by a reporter for the Washington Post earlier today about the potential for a Mark Sanford win in the special election for Tim Scott’s seat in SC district 1, and the congressman was less than enthusiastic
On Tuesday, voters in South Carolina will vote to fill the vacancy left by Rep. Tim Scott’s appointment to the Senate. It will be one of the most lop-sided elections ever, with voters knowing almost everything about former Gov. Mark
(AP) Sanford, Colbert Busch square off in SC debateBy BRUCE SMITHAssociated PressCHARLESTON, S.C.Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch have begun a spirited debate in the race for the state’s vacant 1st Congressional District seat. Sanford,
Monday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC was an endless roundtable of navel gazing and hand wringing over the astounding weekend events in Boston. Regular panelist Mike Barnicle chastised politicians, specifically senators from South Carolina (probably not Tim Scott,) to think stop and consider
On May 7th, voters in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District will elect a successor to former Rep. Tim Scott, who was elevated earlier this year to the Senate. Former Gov. Mark Sanford has the edge in the Republican-leaning district, but
After former Republican South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford won the GOP nomination for Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) congressional seat on Tuesday, Democrats signaled they will not focus on Sanford’s affair with his Argentinian mistress–now his fiancée–but will highlight possible ethics
(AP) It’s official: Sanford facing Colbert Busch in SCBy BRUCE SMITHAssociated PressMOUNT PLEASANT, S.C.The race for a vacant South Carolina congressional seat has turned into the big-name contest that political junkies were hoping for. Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford,
For Gov. Mark Sanford, today is a day to believe in second chances. South Carolinians of the 1st Congressional District will go to the polls today to choose between the former governor and former councilman Curtis Bostic in the race
On Tuesday, former SC Gov. Mark Sanford faces former County Councilman Curtis Bostic in a run-off election for the GOP nomination in South Carolina’s 1st District. Bostic finished a distant second in the crowded 16-candidate primary in March. Sanford received
There’s no holding down the people of South Carolina. The state’s congressional runoff, where the 1st congressional district hangs in the balance, has drawn national attention with former Gov. Mark Sanford and Elizabeth Colbert-Busch among the pack. But it is
(AP) Sanford advances in SC race, Colbert’s sister winsBy BRUCE SMITHAssociated PressCHARLESTON, S.C.Mark Sanford says he believes in “a God of second chances,” and now the former South Carolina governor has taken the first step toward reviving a political career
Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) spoke at the ACU’s Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday, and this is one of three Associated Press photos chosen to represent his time in the spotlight. Scott assumed this particular pose as he acted out a
Former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) told the CPAC audience on Thursday that there is nothing a liberal fears more than black conservatives. “There is nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who
The American Conservative Union just announced that Mitt Romney will address this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Rep. Paul Ryan was already on the list of announced speakers, as are up-and-coming Republicans such as Senators Marco Rubio, Rand Paul,
Republicans, cognizant that they had a dismal record with minorities in the 2012 election, have created a new nonprofit organization called Insight which will target minorities, attempt to launch their careers in Washington and help them flourish once they get
Stephen Colbert’s Comedy Central shtick has him pretending to be conservative while actually blasting all things GOP on The Colbert Report. Today, he’s taking off the clown nose to yuk it up with fellow Democrats on the Hill. Minority Leader
The GOP-as-racists narrative continues on Buzzfeed with a piece today focused on the minority outreach being planned by National Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Greg Walden. Reporting for Buzzfeed on Walden’s appearance at a recent GOP retreat, John Stanton reports only on
Last week, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous attacked newly appointed Senator Tim Scott as a token who knows nothing about civil rights. Mr. Jealous accused Senator Scott of not believing in civil rights because he is not a promoter of growing
NAACP President Ben Jealous claimed yesterday that Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)–the first black Senator from the South since Reconstruction–does not believe in civil rights: “[W]e have Republicans who believe in civil rights. Unfortunately he is not one of them.” The
(AP) Congress ushering in new members, with old divideBy DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONCongress is ushering in the new and the old _ dozens of eager freshmen determined to change Washington and the harsh reality of another stretch of bitterly divided government.
CNN HOST: And finally here Ben, final point, we are looking here at a new congress that will be sworn in tomorrow and it is a dramatically different looking congress, much more diverse, you’ve got Tim Scott of South Carolina
CBS: Senator-designate Rep. Tim Scot, R-S.C., insists the House and Speaker John Boehner have been leaders on legislation to stop the U.S. from going over the “fiscal cliff.
The race for the South Carolina House seat vacated by Rep. Tim Scott, who was appointed to the Senate seat left open by Jim DeMint, is going to be mighty interesting. Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who left the governorship
(AP) Ex-SC Gov Sanford eyes politics again after affairBy SEANNA ADCOXAssociated PressCOLUMBIA, S.C.When Mark Sanford walked out of the governor’s mansion in 2011, he had been censured by the Legislature over state travel expenses he used for an affair with
