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Two county chairmen of the South Carolina Republican Party, Edwin O. Merwin Jr. and James S. Ulmer Jr., have an editorial in yesterday’s edition of the Times and Democrat newspaper defending Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). But with an antisemitic defense like Merwin and Ullmer’s, who needs critics? DeMint watches out ...
GOP, Republican Party, South Carolina, Jim DeMint, Antisemitism, Fail
Philandering creationist governor Mark Sanford now says he’s being persecuted just like Sarah Palin: Sanford: Now I know what Palin felt like. And he repeated his contention that God put him on Earth to be the governor of South Carolina. Sanford didn’t mention if God also planned for him to ...
Mark Sanford, Politics, South Carolina, Creationism, GOP, Affair, Sarah Palin
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer is calling on philandering creationist governor Mark Sanford to resign, but Sanford says he won’t be “railroaded” out of office by people who just can’t seem to understand that he is a special human being. [Video]
Mark Sanford, Politics, South Carolina, Creationism, GOP, Affair
Philandering creationist GOP governor Mark Sanford is in more hot water. Mark Sanford may have more trouble on his hands. An Associated Press investigation shows the South Carolina Governor took dozens of flights on private planes that he didn’t report despite a state law requiring him to disclose who ...
Mark Sanford, Politics, South Carolina, Creationism, GOP, Affair
In an op-ed published in several South Carolina newspapers, philandering Republican Governor Mark Sanford now says God wants him to stay on as Governor: Now and going forward. It’s in the spirit of making good from bad that I am committing to you and the larger family of South ...
Mark Sanford, Politics, South Carolina, Creationism, GOP, Affair
More of the Mark Sanford story’s leaking out, and it’s just not looking any better for the philandering creationist governor: Sanford, like a man in love, gushes about his ‘soul mate,’ confesses to other encounters. Crying at times and clearly wearing his emotions on his sleeve, the two-term governor ...
Mark Sanford, Politics, South Carolina, Creationism, GOP, Affair
The saga of Governor Mark Sanford descends into farce, as he admits he lied about how often he saw his Argentinian mistress. COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Tuesday that he saw his Argentine mistress more times than previously disclosed, including what was to be a ...
Mark Sanford, Politics, South Carolina, Creationism, GOP, Affair
What’s going on with these top state officials and naked hiking? Former mayor in Georgia arrested for nudity. CLAYTON, Ga. – Naked time got a little too public for a former Georgia mayor. Authorities arrested Mark Musselwhite and charged him with public indecency last weekend after state Department of ...
Mark Sanford, Politics, South Carolina, Creationism, GOP, Affair, Mark Musselwhite, Georgia
One of the worst ways to learn about an affair is to find a love letter. South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says she discovered her husband’s affair in January when she found a letter to the governor from his mistress. Jenny Sanford told The Associated Press on Friday ...
Mark Sanford, Politics, South Carolina, Creationism, GOP, Affair
Sen. John F. Kerry weighs in on the disappearance of Mark Sanford with a real knee-slapper. WASHINGTON - A jovial U.S. Sen. John Kerry must have been channeling his inner Letterman Tuesday when he quipped the wrong governor had gone missing. The Bay State Democrat was regaling a group ...
Mark Sanford, Politics, South Carolina, Creationism, GOP, Affair, John F. Kerry
It’s kind of amazing, but Governor Mark Sanford actually seems to believe he can remain in office despite his propensity for disappearing without notice and lying about the reason. Byron York: Serious questions remain for Mark Sanford.
Mark Sanford, Politics, South Carolina, Creationism, GOP, Affair
An affair, with an Argentinian woman, apparently. Tell me you didn’t see this one coming.
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s lost weekend mystery tour may not have been the best idea, politically speaking: The Fallout from Sanford’s South American Adventure. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s South American getaway may be every chief executive’s dream — ditching security, escaping the bubble and wandering through a ...
If you were worried about South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, worry no more: he’s been located. The whereabouts of Gov. Mark Sanford was unknown for nearly four days, and some state leaders question who was in charge of the executive office. But Sanford’s office told the lieutenant governor’s office ...
At the South Carolina GOP convention (where creationist Karen Floyd was unanimously elected to lead the state’s Republican Party), Sen. Lindsey Graham gave a speech that became a farce when he said, “Let me tell you — Ron Paul, I like, I admire him, but I don’t agree with him ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, GOP, Republican Party, Anti-Science, South Carolina, Karen Floyd, Ron Paul, Mark Sanford, Lindsey Graham
At the South Carolina GOP state convention yesterday, Karen Floyd was unanimously elected to lead the Republican Party: Floyd to lead GOP in S.C. State Republicans elected Spartanburg businesswoman Karen Floyd to head the party at a state convention that underscored the divisions facing the GOP as it prepares ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, GOP, Republican Party, Anti-Science, South Carolina, Karen Floyd
One of the two University of South Florida students who were caught with pipe bombs near a South Carolina Navy base has been sentenced to 15 years. TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — An Egyptian student attending a Florida university was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday for making a ...
South Carolina, CAIR, Pipe Bombs, Megahed, Radical Islam, Terrorism
The Council on American Islamic Relations immediately got out in front of the press and claimed they were “victims” being persecuted simply because they were Muslims, just “naïve kids” playing with “fireworks.” Leftist bloggers also came to their defense, and derided the authorities for seeing terrorists where there were none. ...
LGF, South Carolina, CAIR, Pipe Bombs, Megahed, Radical Islam, Terrorism
CHANGE! I’m using the occasion of Obama’s change-oriented victory speech in South Carolina to tinker with the LinkViewer while subconsciously counting the invocations of the CHANGE Power Word. There’s now a “Today” button in the LinkViewer that sets the date fields to show links posted in the current day. (“Current ...
ABC News is projecting that Barack Obama has won the South Carolina primary: Barack Obama Wins South Carolina Primary.
Another non-Buddhist University of South Florida student has been arrested in connection with the Goose Creek terrorism case: USF Explosives Case Leads To 3rd Student’s Arrest. TAMPA - Two days before he was to graduate, a University of South Florida student was arrested Thursday on a weapons charge in ...
University of South Florida student Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, arrested with pipe bombs near a South Carolina Navy base, is going to have his defense paid for by Egypt. TAMPA, Fla. - Egypt’s government is paying for the legal representation of a college student who authorities say was found ...
The Council on American Islamic Relations claimed that Egyptian students Youssef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed, arrested near a naval base in South Carolina, were only “naïve kids” with “fireworks,” persecuted by racist authorities simply because they were Muslims. Today the Charlotte Observer reports that Megahed has admitted to the FBI ...
When Egyptian students Youssef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed were arrested near a naval base in South Carolina, the Council on American Islamic Relations immediately jumped in front of the cameras, claiming the students were just “naïve kids” with “fireworks,” persecuted by the racist authorities simply because they were Muslims. Yesterday ...
The Tampa Tribune has a pathos-drenched sob story about the two Egyptian students indicted on terrorism charges after being arrested with pipe bombs near a South Carolina naval base. You’re not going to believe this one: A Family In Despair. MONCKS CORNER, S.C. - In a jail chapel, with ...