Tweet "It would make us a more progressive, better state, I think, if the flag was removed. But I’m not going to go on any big campaign to have it removed. That’s not my position." — Steve Spurrier Well, it is my position, and the big […]
TweetTHAT drew you in, didn’t it? And welcome to all our neo-Confederate friends who wouldn’t be here except that they spend their days cruising the Web for stuff they can get indignant about. Anyway, I thought I’d refer you to the streaming feed from my appearance on Public Radio this morning. The video stutters something […]
TweetHey, let’s just get it over with By Brad WarthenEditorial Page EditorTOMMY MOORE was right to refuse to go to Georgia for the annual meeting of the South Carolina chapter of the NAACP. By refusing to go, he sent the message that no one who wants to lead a state should participate in a boycott […]
TweetThe Op-Ed Page By Paul V. DeMarco Guest Columnist Many people are rightly offended by hammer-thrower Gwen Berry’s disrespect of the American flag after her third-place finish in the U.S. Olympic Trials on June 26. The response from certain sectors was swift and predictable. Ted Cruz castigated Berry on Twitter, asking “Why does the Left […]
TweetI’m voting in the Republican primary on Tuesday. The choice of which primary, of course, was easy. Where I live, there is no Democratic primary this year. Not one contested race. Not that the choices offered on the GOP ballot are anything to write home about. There are some candidates running against Lindsey Graham and […]
TweetThere are still people out there who don’t see the pandemic as real, as anything other than an abstract concept. And they don’t get why we’re all staying at home and economic activity has largely ground to a halt. Some of them are saying some phenomenally stupid things, and I don’t just mean the president. […]
Tweet Y’all, I’ve been too busy to post today, but as you know this was a busy day in Columbia for presidential candidates. Of course, it was a lot more than that. It was MLK Day, which for me has generally been a rather busy holiday. It all started 20 years ago today, when the […]
Tweet And he has a point. It seems our girl, so fresh from tarnishing her own fine record on the Confederate flag, has stepped in it again. Not sure why she keeps doing this. Does she feel she’s not in the limelight enough these days? Anyway, Bruni said this in his latest email newsletter, under […]
Tweet I’m basing this on the narration from the very beginning of the first episode of his new series about country music. You hear Peter Coyote say: Most of all, its roots sprang from the need of Americans, especially those who felt left out and looked-down-upon, to tell their stories… Which sounds to me like […]
TweetThe Post and Courier this week reports on the latest Winthrop Poll, which finds that South Carolinians “remain divided” over what Civil War monuments and Confederate symbols “even mean.” “Even” as though knowing what they “mean” is a simple matter. That point is mentioned in the lede, but the story doesn’t get back to it until the last […]
TweetBeen busy today, but here are a few things to chew on: America’s Failure to Protect Its Children from School Shootings Is a National Disgrace — A second-day angle, from The New Yorker. I spent some time today writing a post on this subject, but it’s not quite ready. I’ll try to finish it tomorrow. […]
TweetIn reaction to disclosures regarding Rick Quinn’s case, former state GOP Chairman Matt Moore Tweeted this: Classic example of what reform-minded leaders in S.C. face every day. Sadly, many of the individuals involved in this scandal are still serving at the highest levels of state government. https://t.co/2tNuJhalO1 — Matt Moore (@MattMooreSC) February 11, 2018 I retweeted […]
TweetA few topics to consider: Trump threatens to abandon Puerto Rico recovery efforts — Really? What a petulant child… In the same vein, how about his threat to NBC?… He is just so embarrassing… Jeff Duncan worries admitting girls will ‘destroy’ Boy Scouts — Well, I guess they’ll have to change the name, anyway. Meanwhile, the […]
TweetWell, this is good news. And here’s the notice he sent out to potential supporters (I didn’t get one, but it was forwarded to me): All of my life I have felt the call to service. I have been grateful for the privilege to serve my community, my state, and my nation. In that spirit, […]
TweetSince I started reading The New York Times again on a daily basis (because they offered a better deal than The Wall Street Journal), I’ve been enjoying Ross Douthat‘s columns. But I really have a beef with the lede (although not the overall thrust) of his piece today: The secret of culture war is that […]
TweetHere’s an interesting thing brought to my attention this morning by a Tweet. To backtrack a bit first, this is from Foreign Policy back in March: Former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley will be sworn in next week as the executive director of the World Food Program, placing the first Trump administration appointee at the […]
TweetThis had me shaking my head this morning: President Trump effectively declared war Thursday on the House Freedom Caucus, the powerful group of hard-line conservative Republicans who blocked the health-care bill, vowing to “fight them” in the 2018 midterm elections. In a morning tweet, Trump warned that the Freedom Caucus would “hurt the entire Republican […]
TweetA few things you might want to talk about: Trump prepares to address a divided audience: The Republican Congress — Which reminds me… I’ll probably be actively Tweeting during the speech, in case you’d like to join in. Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds — A depressing piece in The New Yorker on how our brains […]
TweetCAVEAT: When I wrote this post I had missed something important in the governor’s speech, something that had come during the part I missed. It has bearing on the points I make in the post, and here it is. I had a Community Relations Council meeting last night, so I only heard the very last […]
Tweet Late on election night, the folks on PBS (Judy Woodruff, David Brooks, Mark Shields, and others), utterly flabbergasted and in desperate search for something to say, somehow got on the subject of “Whither the Republican Party?” Or something like that. I forget exactly how they got on the topic, but they got to talking […]