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The Columbia Conservative: In Praise of Senator Jim DeMint
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In Praise of Senator Jim DeMint. There has been a lot going on in the past couple of months, and it seems to me that with all of the good things we’re trying to do and all of the bad things the liberals are trying to do, there’s one great guy with us in the trenches these last two months – Senator Jim DeMint. Stopping Hillary Clinton from turning the State Department into her own private social engineering lab? I just don’t understand this concept – at all. But I digress.). Now Senator DeMint is fighting...
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The Columbia Conservative: Martin/Harrell - Tort Reform Returns
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Martin/Harrell - Tort Reform Returns. The US Chamber of Commerce recently ranked the fifty states on a series of tort and liability issues in terms of their business friendliness. South Carolina’s ranking dropped in 2008 from 37th to 43rd, despite the tort reform and workers compensation reforms passed earlier in the decade? Why are we ranked so low? Senator Martin and Speaker Harrell should be applauded for bringing this bill to the Legislature, especially at a time when our economy needs a boost. T...
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The Columbia Conservative: Putting the Band Back Together
http://columbiaconservative.blogspot.com/2010/07/putting-band-back-together.html
Putting the Band Back Together. So it's been a long time. I haven't written for the blog in. what, 16 months? At some point, I'll write about the campaign here. Lessons learned, friendships made, folks I just can't trust any more. It was a 95% positive experience, and that's where I'll focus the most. In that time I wound up helping start the Tea Party movement (and then see it go through some serious adolescent growing pains). I'm certain to keep commenting on that as things move forward. Rep Nathan Bal...
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The Columbia Conservative: President Obama's Line Item Veto of the Creator
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President Obama's Line Item Veto of the Creator. Our President has chosen a new path for our nation, one that should trouble each and every citizen, especially every citizen of faith. On two separate occasions, President Obama, speaking about the inalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence, has chosen to omit the Creator from the discussion. In so doing, the President seems to be trying to apply a line item veto on the Declaration of Independence to strike God from the public square. If there a...
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The Columbia Conservative: Reprint: On Conservatism and Race
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Reprint: On Conservatism and Race. This didn't make the blog last year, but it should have, and so it will. This was originally posted as a Facebook note on July 14, 2009, in the wake of the disastrous election of Audra Shay as YRNF Chair. A year later, living as I do in Senator Jake Knotts district, it seems just as fresh today. 8220;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, ...
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The Columbia Conservative: Early Odds for 2012
http://columbiaconservative.blogspot.com/2010/08/early-odds-for-2012.html
Early Odds for 2012. As we’ve done in cycles past, here are the odds for the Republican nomination on the likely challengers for the Presidential ticket with 17 months to the January 2012 SC Primary. These do not reflect my desire for any particular candidate, I'm genuinely undecided on that at the moment. TIER I: The Early Favorites (5-3 odds; 60%). Former Speaker-GA) has been sounding themes that could capitalize on Tea Party type momentum within the Republican rank and file. He is clearly the most...
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The Columbia Conservative: Time for a real National Championship
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Time for a real National Championship. OK, so let's go non-political for a minute (well, maybe not entirely non-political, since I agree with the President-Elect on this one.). It's time for a real national championship in college football. We can still market it as a "Bowl Championship Series" if we want to - but it has to be a real championship, not just one game masquerading as a championship like we have now. Instead we're treated to a cornucopia of television induced corporate names - the papajohns&...
