The expected end to the special election in the 1st Congressional District has come: Mark Sanford has won the South Carolina special election in a competitive race for what in normal circumstances is a safe Republican seat. The former governor beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert Busch, for the state’s [...]
At 12:52 p.m., the SC Democratic Party Tweeted out the above picture, saying, It’s raining in #SC01 so we need you to get on the call tool NOW!!! Yeah, I’m not sure what that means. “Call tool” sounds like what someone whose first language is not English would call a telephone, but the Tweet included [...]
Our regular Silence, who apparently is way too chipper in the early morning, posted at 7:08 a.m., Here it is folks, the big day, the main event! Who will be the champ, and who will be the chump? To which I responded that most likely, Mark Sanford wins. Again. As he has been expected to [...]
I don’t have much time for blogging today — I was sick all weekend (ran a fever over 100, which for me is high, since I’m normally about 97 degrees) and couldn’t get to some things I wanted to get ahead on, so now I’m way behind. But since the special election in the 1st [...]
Just saw this fund-raising appeal from the Democrats: ROLL CALL: Conservatives Buy Airtime for Mark Sanford If you think Elizabeth Colbert Busch has a clear path to victory on Tuesday, think again. She’s neck and neck with Mark Sanford — 46-46. And now, right-wing groups are throwing everything they’ve got at keeping this seat in [...]
Does Esquire still do its Dubious Achievement Awards? (I ask because, though I was a subscriber back in the ’70s, I haven’t picked up a copy in many a year.) If so, here’s something for the list: The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that it has named Joanne Chesimard to its “Most Wanted Terrorists” list, with [...]
Not much time for blogging today, but I thought I’d call attention to the buzz today about a supposed push-poll aimed at smearing Elizabeth Colbert-Busch. Here’s an account from The Atlantic Wire: ThinkProgress spoke with two women in the state, each of whom said they’d gotten a call from someone claiming to be conducting a [...]
Some of y’all have mentioned this development on a previous thread, but here’s a separate post for it: COLUMBIA, SC — Beleaguered former Columbia police chief Randy Scott will return to his former employer, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department later this month at a salary barely more than a uniform deputy. Sheriff Leon Lott announced Wednesday [...]
An odd sort of ad has been cropping up on my Facebook page, over and over. In the screengrab above, you can see two versions of it at once. I don’t know why I’m getting that. I haven’t searched for language lessons. But the really puzzling thing is the photographs with the come-ons. I mean, [...]
James Smith’s comments about Nikki Haley and “corruption” should also be taken within the context of the above ad from the Democratic Governor’s Association. Meanwhile, with the video below, Haley supporters show that they want to run against Barack Obama again. But at least this ad mentions Sheheen, which is something. How do the ads [...]
From Rep. James Smith’s Facebook page: If SC had seen genuine ethics reform previously and had an ethics committee with any teeth, Nikki Haley would likely have been forced out of the House and never would have made it to the Governor’s office. Her actions and the culture of corruption continue to bring shame on [...]
My headline should seem familiar. It seems to me that there’s a line like that in most stories about the 1st Congressional District special election. For instance, this is the only mention of her in first 16 paragraphs of the Island Packet story I referred to in my last post: Meanwhile, his Democratic opponent in [...]
Gina Smith really buried the lede in that story. I read this morning her account of Mark Sanford’s visage being used by a website that promotes extramarital affairs (she also mentioned his endorsement by Rand Paul, which is about as startling as the fact that the Club for Growth still loves him). That was interesting, [...]
Did y’all watch the debate? I did not, in real time, and when I started trying to a little after 8, I could not find any video to connect to. I mean, what century is this anyway? This morning, I’ve started watching the CSPAN video. Before typing this, all I had watched was the opening [...]
Recently, I happened to mention to a young woman of my acquaintance something that I’d seen on Pinterest, and she stopped me to say, in a mocking sort of way, “You’re on Pinterest?” We were interrupted at that point, so I didn’t get around to asking her, “Why do you ask it that way?” But [...]
When you awake, you will remember everything; You will be hanging on a string, from your… When you believe, You will relieve the only soul That you were born with to grow old and never know. – The Band Had one of those dreams yesterday where you wake up, but you’re still in the dream. [...]
A few headlines to close your week with. I mean, a few headlines with which to close your week: Obama: proof of chemical weapons a ‘game-changer’ (The Guardian) — Can’t for the life of me figure out why American publications are leading with this. I guess it just sounds different from abroad. The American outlets are [...]
Earlier today, I heard Kevin Cullen of The Boston Globe on the radio, giving a riveting, shot-by-shot description of the gun battle between Boston-area cops and the Tsarnaev brothers last Thursday night. It’s a great story, and Cullen tells it well in his column this morning. In fact, I don’t recall ever having read a [...]
The Associated Press reported this yesterday. Somehow I missed it until now, but it’s interesting enough to go ahead and take note of: BOSTON (AP) — The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings acknowledged to the FBI his role in the attacks but did so before he was advised of his constitutional right to [...]
A quick look at the headlines: U.S. Says It Suspects Assad Used Chemical Weapons (NYT) — U.S. joins Israel in saying this. Boston suspects ‘targeted New York’ (BBC) — It’s interesting that the BBC is leading with this (so is The Guardian), while you can hardly find it on the NYT main page. S.C. House passes bill [...]