As we approach the 2024 election, two significant conservative agendas are taking center stage: Project 2025, created by the Heritage Foundation, and Agenda 47, the manifesto of former President Donald Trump. Both represent a concerted effort by the Republican Party to reshape the U.S. government and society in ways that many view as extreme and…
By Steve Hamelman
Senator Tim Scott began his party’s response to President Joe Biden’s address to Congress on April 28, 2021, by calling the president “a good man” whose “speech was full of good words.”
The first compliment could be applied in turn to the senator from South Carolina. His personal character seems spotless.
Not so the second…
By Steven Hamelman If for no other reason than that the office of the President of the United States should inspire respect even in citizens who voted against the current chief executive, one would wish to temper criticism of Donald Trump’s most recent outrage—that is, his performance at the rally in Greenville, North Carolina, on…
We all lead busy lives. Often we are too busy to pay attention to what’s going on in the political realm. Because of this, many of us decide to back a certain candidate, or affiliate ourselves with a particular political ideal based upon a single issue without wholly researching a candidate’s stance on other issues.…
By V. Susan Hutchinson.
Now that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has released his report to Attorney General William P. Barr, it has been a roller coaster ride for Americans who insisted on their right to see it. Although there is no law saying the Attorney General can’t release the report, Barr took a circuitous…
By V. Susan Hutchinson.
Tom Rice, the man representing the 7th Congressional district of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives, is a hypocrite. In fact, his blatant political hypocrisy is on full display in two recent taxpayer financed newsletters emailed to constituents.
One of these updates was posted Jan. 19, just before Martin Luther…
UPDATE: Court Blocks Prep Work for Offshore Drilling During Shutdown
A federal judge in South Carolina has rejected the Trump administration's attempt to continue preparatory work for offshore drilling during the #TrumpShutdown, issuing a ruling in a federal lawsuit challenging the overall expansion plans.
U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel's ruling prohibits federal agencies "from taking action to…
By Don Kohn.
President Trump claims he has the power to declare a national emergency and order the construction of his wall and now is threatening to use already appropriated disaster relief money and the Army Corps of Engineers to get it done.
Last Thursday he went to the Texas border with Mexico and began laying the…
By Bob Gatty.
Now that Donald Trump has been in office nearly two years, it's fair to ask whether voters in "Trump's America" are "winning" yet, as he repeatedly promised during his presidential election campaign.
The answer, according to this analysis published by The Washington Post (one of Trump's favorite news outlets), is no. In fact, the data shows…