First lady Jenny Sanford told "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart she missed the inmates who worked at the S.C. governor's mansion. Why? Those inmates cleaned her dogs.
Jenny Sanford said the Sanford family had two Labrador Retrievers who lived outside the mansion. And the inmate staff, she said, would clean [...]
"Outside of a person's love, the most sacred thing they can give is their labor."
“Move Along Home” has a reputation for being one of the worst episodes of DS9. I will agree it has some serious issues, but like “Spock’s Brain,” some absurd moments make it a spectacle to watch. It reminds me a lot of some o the more high [...] 
GPats issues an edict:
This Saturday morning in Summerville, it's grits, eggs, and a heapin' helping of First District GOP Congressional candidates at the February meeting the Lowcountry GOP Breakfast Club.
It's no secret that GOP Congressman's Joe Wilson's re-election bid has drawn the attention of national-level Democrats, with Rob Miller, his Democratic opponent, doing numerous out-of-state fundraiser events aimed at attracting national involvement for his second attempt to defeat Wilson.
Uber-bagger Ron Paul, the racist gold bug congressman from Texas, has three Teabagger primary opponents.
Last night’s performance at the super Bowl halftime show got me to thinking about recent halftime acts. Aside from Prince, who is not exactly a spring chicken himself, the halftime show has been nothing but safe, nostalgia rock by musical acts who were over the hill decades [...] 
I have been scanning the political sites for commentary on Sarah Palin’s address to the tea Party Convention to discover what portion is legitimate criticism and what is Palin Derangement Syndrome. There is not much of the former, but there is a load of the latter. Progressive [...] 
Congressmen Clavin and Peterson (D-MA) Hail Contradictory Bill
We're not sure if you caught this week during the week, but the House passed a bill to install Pay As You Go to it's spending bills - at the exact same time' [...]
Last night's Super Bowl was watched by 106.5 million people, meaning it has surpassed the MASH finale as the most watched television show in history. [...] 
By FITSNews || The curious case of Columbia, South Carolina’s elusive, anonymous (and racist) vandal just keeps gettin’ weirder, folks …
In addition to absolutely no one witnessing the spray-painting of racist graffiti onto Columbia’s City Hall last month (or at least no one who has [...]
By FITSNews || We’d have never guessed it, but there are actually people to the right of us on the ideological spectrum … who (believe it or not) are every bit as funny and talented as we are.
Although not as humble … definitely not as [...]
By FITSNews || For those of you who missed her big Barbara Walters interview, S.C. First Lady Jenny Sanford (TM) was at it again on Monday, transforming her “private anguish” into additional public overexposure (and ka-ka-ching) on Good Morning America.
Interviewed by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, [...]
Rep. Tim Scott, who in 2008 became the first African American Republican in the State House in at least 100 years, is now running for Congress.
Scott had been running for lieutenant governor. Scott, the former chairman of Charleston County Council, announced Monday he is abandoning his run for statewide [...]
You have to hand it to Western criminal justice systems. Those states seem to have had a historical legacy of interesting conventions. In McAlester, Okla., there was an annual rodeo for the prisoners and some competitors who went up against the guys on the inside. It [...]
By FITSNews || U.S. Rep. John Murtha – one of the most corrupt, liberal members of Congress and an outspoken critic of the War in Iraq – died Monday of complications from gall bladder surgery.
The 77-year-old lawmaker had represented Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District for thirty-five [...]
Medal of Honor recipient from Mt. Pleasant supporting veteran Lt. Gov. candidate
In another sign of building momentum, the Bill Connor campaign today announced that Marine Major General and Medal of Honor recipient James Livingston has endorsed the campaign.
By FITSNews || After plummeting to frightening lows a year ago (anybody remember 6469.95?), the Dow Jones Industrial average seemed to have righted itself heading into 2010.
Trillions of dollars worth of government intervention – including hundreds of billions of dollars pumped directly into the some [...]
Your Search Stories videos are great, but what happened to one with the story of Bruce Wayne? You disappeared it without explanation. Just curious.
Stop the insanity. It broke wide today, but it’s been assumed for a while that Rep. Tim Scott, in just his first year in the House, is jumping into the race to replace U.S. Rep. Henry Brown in the First District. Yesterday, Scott’s consultants [...]
By FITSNews || We read an item recently about how a lot of Jennifer Aniston’s exes (including Brad Pitt) were blowing up her phone these days … which didn’t surprise us in the least.
Aniston is train smoke hot, people (f’real) … which makes many [...]
By Mande Wilkes || At some point during the past several weeks, I’ve gotten it in my head that I ought to pursue a seat in the South Carolina House of Representatives. To that end, I’ve managed to put together a tentative campaign. Having never before [...]
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Filed under: Other [...] Former Lexington County Council chairman Jerry Howard announced Monday that he will run for House District 87.
The seat is currently held by Rep. Nikki Haley, who is running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.Howard, 69, last served on county council 18 years ago, but was there when Michelin and Pirelli [...]
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Rex has accepted an invitation from Republican gubernatorial hopeful Henry McMaster to debate a plan to raise the state's lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax to pay for teachers and health care costs.
Rex, the S.C. Superintendent of Education, has proposed raising the tax by $1.27 a pack -- to [...]
After a month of wrangling, Argentine President Cristina Kirchner succeeded in sacking central bank President Martin Redrado last week. In his [...]
