TweetThe Op-Ed Page By Paul V. DeMarco Guest Columnist We’ve just marked the 20th anniversary of one of the worst days in American history. We remember the horror and heroism of that day and all those we lost. We also recall the strong sense of unity that Americans showed in the aftermath of the attack: […]
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 […]
TweetThe Op-Ed Page EDITOR’S NOTE: This was supposed to run a couple of weeks ago, at the time of the anniversary of what happened in Tulsa, but it didn’t, and it’s entirely my fault. As y’all know, I’ve had a lot going on lately, day and night, and so certain routine activities — such as […]
TweetThat’s essentially what I said on Twitter this morning about the Liz Cheney thing, and started to move on to other topics. But perhaps we should pause on that one for a moment, seeing how I may have been a trite too dismissive of the significance of this moment in American political history. Perhaps we should […]
TweetThe Op-Ed Page By Paul V. DeMarco Guest Columnist According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there remain more than 700 statues in our nation honoring Confederates. I pass one regularly in my hometown of Marion. It is by far the most impressive statue in the county. The city of Marion website gives its dimensions: […]
TweetIt’s probably the worst video I ever shot, technically speaking. It’s horrendous. You can hardly make out what’s going on. I didn’t have my little digital camera I used in those days, so I shot it with my phone. We’re not talking iPhone here — no HD or anything. It was 2006. I shot it […]
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 […]
Tweet Following up on that last post, here are a couple of other ads that have been really bugging me, cropping up on my phone over and over. Might as well get this out of my system. First, the Walgreens one, above. This is amazingly stupid. If you really want to “shop till you drop” […]
Tweet It’s shaping up to be a busy news day. And there’s other stuff… McMaster forces vote on USC president while students are away — An illustration of the “When the mice are away, the cats will play” principle. Really? It’s come to this? The duly constituted authorities are so afraid of the kids in […]
Tweet This came out a couple of months ago, but I just ran across it. I knew former Justice Department attorney Adair Ford Boroughs had announced she was going to go after Joe Wilson next year, but hadn’t seen the video until now. It caused me to check out her website as well. Random observations, in […]
Tweet Tomorrow is runoff day. If you voted in the Democratic primary on the 12th, you may or may not have any runoffs to decide. But if you voted in the Republican, you have quite a bit of unfinished business — to start with, picking nominees for governor and attorney general. If you’re in that latter […]
TweetThe weirdness has been there from the moment I sold my first blog ad, back in 2010. It was to Tony Mizzell, city county candidate. For a guy who had spent his whole, long professional life totally insulated from the advertising department, it was… an unsettling experience. I had set up an interview with the candidate. […]
TweetI appreciate my friend E.J. Dionne, who is also a nice guy, bringing this to my attention: “#AnthonyBourdain spoke up for me at a time when people all over the country were making great fun of the column I write.” Marilyn Hagerty Ms. Hagerty wrote a nice review of an Olive Garden. Bourdain defended her […]
TweetOur own Karen Pearson said some very true things in this comment: I’m all for keeping “parties ” out of it. We’re far too far along the way of voting for party instead of person. The candidates are forced to go farther and farther left or right in order to win a prime spot in […]
Tweet … she might be able to contribute to a serious discussion about important issues. Maybe. For instance, she might have been able to say something enlightening about the Jasper port, somewhere in the 1,190 words of this release, if she’d made the slightest effort. I would have found that helpful, because I feel like I’ve […]
TweetThis bit of nonsense just sort of floored me last night: South Carolina is one step closer to banning Sanctuary Cities and standing tall for the Rule of Law! Tonight our bill received key approval from House Judiciary Committee (1/) — Henry McMaster (@henrymcmaster) March 20, 2018 I responded thusly: A reminder, once again, to […]
Tweet This is a followup on a topic from yesterday — the one about Phil Noble’s attempts to hang the NRA around James Smith’s neck in the wake of last week’s school shooting in Florida. Have you seen the bogus “NRA Report Card” Noble’s campaign created for Smith? It’s above. Phil tweeted it out with a volley of the angry, […]
Tweet Chris Cillizza posted this: Here are five from well-known Republican politicians. See if you can pick out the one from President Donald Trump: 1. “Dr. Graham was a counselor to presidents, a pastor to the masses, and most of all — a loving, caring, husband, father, and grandfather. May he Rest In Peace.” 2. […]
TweetFor my second post of the day based on Twitter, I’ll give you something I retweeted this morning: Kevin Fisher doing some serious Kevin Fishering here.https://t.co/mnZJRVn4zx — Free Times (@FreeTimesSC) February 21, 2018 First, let me tell you of a sorta kinda indirect conflict I have. Or at least, apparent conflict: Phill Blair, co-owner of […]
TweetBack in the late ’80s, when The State had money for such things, my duties as governmental affairs editor included supervising the South Carolina Poll (at least, I think that’s what we called it — it’s been a long time). Cindi Scoppe was the reporter I had working on it, because she had studied polling […]