South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) will appoint Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) on Monday to replace Sen. Jim DeMint, making Scott the Senate’s only black Senator and the first Republican African-American senator since Massachusetts’ Ed Brooke. Scott will be sworn in when
UPDATE: Haley has announced Tim Scott as DeMint Successor. (AP) SC Gov. Haley to announce Sen. DeMint’s successor By SEANNA ADCOXAssociated PressCOLUMBIA, S.C.South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is announcing a replacement for U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint. Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey
On Monday, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said she will not appoint a “placeholder” to replace Sen. Jim DeMint, who is leaving the Senate next month to head the Heritage Foundation. “As I continue to consider the impending U.S. Senate
Former South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster has emerged as one of the leading candidates to replace outgoing Republican South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, who is leaving the Senate to head the Heritage Foundation next month. According to the Pajamas Media,
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said Friday she would not appoint herself to outgoing Senator Jim DeMint’s Senate seat, dispelling rumors that she would do so. “I will not take the appointment myself,” Haley said. After DeMint announced on Thursday
After South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint announced Thursday he will resign from the Senate to lead the Heritage Foundation, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin tweeted that Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) would be a “great choice” to replace him. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley,
Ronald Reagan famously quipped that liberals waged a war on poverty and poverty won. One major reason for this is because liberals double and triple down on policies that empower bureaucrats and the establishment elite while creating a vicious cycle
Earlier this week, Congressmen Allen West and Tim Scott, former congressman J. C. Watts, congressional hopeful Star Parker, and other prominent black conservatives held the Black Conservative Forum to discuss blacks and the Republican Party. The forum, broadcast by C-Span,
Since taking office in January 2009, Obama has been bad for business. You might even say he’s been at war with business (I bet the president of Gibson Guitars and the untold number of small business owners on the verge
***UPDATE: Sonnie Johnson received an email apology from Kaufman. Unimpressed, she responds. In the Wall Street Journal, film writer Anthony Kaufman did a fairly straight-forward interview with “The Undefeated” writer/director Steve Bannon. Fine. Good. Proper. Afterwards, though, Kaufman then took
Rep. Tim Scott: “My position is, that is an impeachable act.”
House Republicans emerged from last week’s government spending debate with a plan that cuts $61 billion from current levels — a notable achievement that sets an important marker for the coming showdown with President Obama and Senate Democrats. In the
Will the NAACP be celebrating the arrival of two new black faces to the U.S. House of Representatives? Don’t hold your breath. They certainly will not. These two new black congressmen are Republicans. There’s a powerful message here that should
From FoxNews: Two black Republican victories tonight mark the first time African-Americans will represent the GOP in Congress in seven years. Retired Lt. Colonel Allen West’s win in Florida’s 22nd District and South Carolina State Rep. Tim Scott’s victory in
Don’t ask me what I think of the NAACP’s desperate, politically timed report, ask Cedra Crenshaw, Damon Dunn, Tim Scott, Ryan Frazier, Allen West, Star Parker, Bill Marcy, Charlotte Bergmann, Robert Broadus, Ryan Frazier, Charles Lollar, Stephen Broden, Michel Faulker,
Don’t ask me what I think of the NAACP’s desperate, politically timed report, ask Cedra Crenshaw, Damon Dunn, Tim Scott, Ryan Frazier, Allen West, Star Parker, Bill Marcy, Charlotte Bergmann, Robert Broadus, Ryan Frazier, Charles Lollar, Stephen Broden, Michel Faulker,
If elected, Tim Scott will be the first black Republican elected to Congress in the South since Reconstruction.
The great Pat Caddell and Kendra Stewart survey the recent South Carolina elections over at Real Clear Politics: Perhaps nothing better illustrates the historic change brought on in these June elections than the nomination – and all but certain election
Either these media know-it-alls don’t know their history or they do and assume we’re all stupid. In a break from the state’s racist legacy, South Carolina Republicans overwhelmingly chose Nikki Haley, an Indian American woman, to run for governor and