Tweet Until a couple of days ago, I had never heard of Kathleen Sebelius. That may seem odd since I once had charge of the political reporters at the largest newspaper in Kansas. But that was more than 20 years ago, and I long ago shook the dust of that place from my shoes, thank […]
TweetJoe Lieberman’s endorsement of John McCain dramatizes the Arizonans status as the one Republican most in tune with the UnParty. To quote from Sen. Lieberman’s statement: "I know that it is unusual for someone who is not a Republican to endorse a Republican candidate for President. And if this were an ordinary time […]
TweetIs there anything more offensive about political parties than their insistence upon boiling complex truths down to a bumper sticker? You say parties don’t do that? The hell they don’t. That’s what they’re all about — simplifying things so that voters don’t have to think. Just pull the lever, and go back to stuffing your […]
TweetNobody’s proposing a comprehensive energy plan, so I guess we’ll have to do it ourselves. I’ve had this idea percolating lately that I wanted to develop fully before tossing it out. Maybe do a column on it first, roll it out on a Sunday with lots of fanfare. But hey, the situation calls for action, […]
TweetWell, if anyone out there doubted that political parties in the United States have gone stark, raving mad,Tuesday’s election results should have settled the matter. The most dramatic example was the Deaniac rejection of the Democratic Party’s 2000 vice presidential nominee. (Note the victor, above, in full Dean-style rant mode.) My colleagues point out that […]
TweetA comment by GS Gantt deserves a prominent reply, so I’m making a separate post of it. He wrote, in part: Your "UNPARTY" idea has merit in that it would be in opposition to the Democrats and Republicans, such opposition being desperately needed. But I’m sure you know full well how terribly difficult and expensive […]
TweetIt’s my party, and I’ll vie if I want toBy BRAD WARTHENEditorial Page EditorINSPIRED BY Ariel Sharon’s decision to abandon the Likud Party he helped build and start another, more centrist one — one that immediately began to catch on to the extent that it looks as though it will propel him past the established […]
Tweet That would be nice. That would be a wonderful change from what we’ve seen ever since 2016, both nationally and here at home. I’ve never seen anything like this happen in South Carolina. I saw it happen on the national level, though. Once. And once was enough. That was when Mitch McConnell violated his […]
TweetKen misunderstood something earlier. He said the presence of the Micah Caskey ad you see at right was “apparently an endorsement.” No, no, no. That’s just an ad. An endorsement would be, well… something like that sign I have for him in my yard, shown above. I didn’t put it there. But I did ask […]
Tweet You may have seen this news a couple of days ago: COLUMBIA — Trained South Carolina gun owners will likely soon be able to carry pistols openly in public after the state Senate fast-tracked, prioritized and ultimately approved a bill to expand the rights of concealed weapons permit-holders. After multiple days of debate, the […]
TweetMeant to post earlier this week about Max Boot’s column headlined: “I left the Republican ideological bubble. I don’t want to join another.” An excerpt: Now that I’ve left the Republican Party, I am often asked why I simply haven’t become a Democrat. In part it’s because I don’t agree with the progressive wing of […]
TweetHow’s this for irony? Just as I was sticking up for my representative today — again — this release was going out — and I just now saw it: SC Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, State Reps. Bill Hixon, and Micah Caskey & Military Vets Endorse Templeton Momentum Keeps Building for Templeton (COLUMBIA, S.C.) Conservative buzzsaw […]
Tweet In the spirit of the UnParty… Mandy Powers Norrell, a Democrat I see as a positive force in the S.C. House, tweeted this a few minutes ago: This is one of my favorite pictures of 2018. @NathanBallentin and I generally have very different political philosophies, so it’s really special to work on issues where […]
TweetI’ve already written dismissively of Lindsey Graham’s approach to healthcare “reform.” Today, with it getting so much more attention, I share with you this view of it, headlined “New Trumpcare Deserves a Quick Death.” An excerpt: On Wednesday, a group of Republican senators plan to release a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It […]
Tweet All sorts of people don’t want Joe Lieberman to be the new head of the FBI. The identities of these people — Roger Stone, partisan Democrats — and their reasons for opposing him are, for me, arguments for giving him the job immediately. Joe’s my main man, one of my favorite Joes — and […]
TweetI’m glad to see lawmakers made short work of Henry McMaster’s unjustified veto of the bill that raises the gas tax and reforms DOT: A proposal to raise the S.C. gas tax will become law after the Legislature Wednesday overrode Gov. Henry McMaster’s veto…. The S.C. Senate gave the bill final approval Wednesday afternoon in […]
TweetThis morning I received this release, which I find intriguing, as you would expect: Centrist Project Launches Independent Candidate Recruitment Campaign for 2018 Election San Francisco, CA – With strong funding, leadership, and grassroots momentum, the Centrist Project announced today a new “#HackTheSenate” campaign to reform America’s dysfunctional political system. The Centrist Project is recruiting […]
Tweet The American Party started by Jim Rex and Oscar Lovelace awhile back (not to be confused with the George Wallace version) is probably the closest organized group out there to the UnParty (a.k.a. the Grownup Party), even though I can’t bring myself to buy into some of its precepts. So I’m going to run […]
TweetThere’s an argument I keep having with Democrats lately, on social media and elsewhere. On one such occasion recently, I went on at some length in writing. And as y’all probably know, I hate to spend time typing something and then not put it on the blog. So I’ll share it with you. This was […]
Tweet I’ve commented on this before, and I find myself wondering whether others experience it. For my entire writing life, whenever I’ve looked back at something I wrote two or three years earlier, it’s always so much better than what I was writing at the time I looked. For instance, today I was looking for a […]