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Bright lowers the bar below zero with ‘Nacho Senator’
Tweet I missed this last week, but it was brought to my attention by an alert reader today. What you see above is from a Lee Bright Facebook page about a phone bank on May 2. Wow. As in, like, wow…
View ArticleOdd interpretation of a poll result
TweetThis release left me scratching my head a bit: Poll: Parents Say Too Much Focus on Standardized Tests Opposition to Common Core Most Intense Among Parents WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 26, 2014) —...
View ArticleFearing U.N.’s ‘Agenda 21′ down in Charleston
TweetParanoia strikes deep in the heartland. And also on the coast. I rode on an elevator with Matt Kennell of City Center Partnership this morning, and he was marveling at the credulity of those in...
View ArticleMulvaney: House insurgents can’t be trusted
TweetAt first, I thought SC’s Mick Mulvaney had had an awakening, and was spurning the Tea Party fervor that put him in office. I thought maybe his views had matured as a result of four years’ exposure...
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Do you believe in the concept of the rule of law? If so, what is your...
TweetRep. Hill, from his campaign Facebook page. On a couple of occasions during my years chairing The State‘s editorial board, someone who had come to meet with us to advocate for a position on some...
View ArticleThank you, North Carolina! (is what Jon Stewart should say)
Tweet I want to thank the newbie senator from North Carolina for taking some of the heat off South Carolina: Apparently, making restaurant workers wash their hands before exiting the bathroom is a sign...
View ArticlePetition to have GOP Senators jailed now has over 241,000 signatures
TweetAs of now, over 241,000 people have signed a petition on the White House website to have 47 GOP Senators put in jail. Here’s the entire petition. On March 9th, 2015, forty-seven United States...
View ArticleOh, no! Am I now in charge of Donald Trump? No way!
TweetMy mind is still staggering over the implications of this Tweet: Our great African American President hasn’t exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying...
View ArticleSo how come the Baltics aren’t going ape over maneuvers?
TweetMy eyebrows went up when I saw this in Foreign Affairs: In March, a U.S. Army convoy rolled 1,100 miles across six countries in Europe. The convoy, which included over 500 U.S. military personnel...
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Perhaps Kathryn can translate this for me
Tweet When I saw the above sub-headline, I said, “say what?” Then I said it again when I started reading it, then a few more times as I made my way through it, then once more when I was done. So, since...
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SCV presser: The most dramatic example of the human capacity for...
Tweetwistv.com – Columbia, South Carolina OK, the really nutty stuff is starting now, with Clementa Pinckney not even in the ground yet. I just watched the Sons of Confederate Veterans presser on WIS,...
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Lee Bright’s Bizarro-planet perspective on the Confederate flag
TweetThere are two measurements for how far we have so suddenly come on the Confederate flag issue. The first is on the positive side — all the people who once would have opposed removing the flag, or...
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Is the best response to racist rallies just to ignore them?
TweetHey, I was there to cover the Nazis. Today, Cindi is urging us all to stay away from the State House during the demonstrations by the KKK and the New Black Panther Party: We recognize that many...
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Dang! Apparently, I JUST missed seeing Lizard Man
TweetWCIV-TV | ABC News 4 – Charleston News, Sports, Weather Over the weekend, while still at Surfside, I started telling my youngest granddaughter about the Lizard Man legend. I don’t remember why....
View Article‘Black Lives Matter?’ Absolutely. After that, what?
TweetThe “Black Lives Matter” movement has sort of been hovering out there, an amorphous thing that no one seems entirely comfortable with. Not Republican presidential candidates, certainly (some less...
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After this, a headline writer would have nothing left to strive for
Tweet Bryan Caskey brought the above headline to my attention last night. I don’t know where he found it. It prompts three thoughts: The journalistic pedant in me protests that this is not a headline....
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Our shame is that SC audience cheered what Trump said
Tweet I suppose I must say something about this, since he said it here in South Carolina — yet another blot on our ledger. Not that we control what Donald Trump says. No, the really, truly shameful...
View ArticleApparently, Trump and Palin have the same first language, and (surprise!)...
TweetHad you listened to Donald Trump and wondered where you had heard that peculiar, gushing, bouncing-around, non-linear mode of expression before? Yesterday, we were reminded where, when Sarah Palin...
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‘Brushfires of Liberty’: Rand Paul drops out, too
TweetA little less like a chorus line now (I don’t even RECOGNIZE the fourth guy from the right! Pataki? Is he that tall?) First, Mike Huckabee and Martin O’Malley quit during the Iowa caucuses, so...
View ArticleDonald Trump embraces the left’s ‘Bush lied’ lie. How is this going to play...
TweetMy last post arose from Marco Rubio’s response to what Donald Trump said over the weekend, at that debate I had to stop watching. Basically, Trump repeated the left’s “Bush lied” lie: “You call it...
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