“Draconian?”
Draconian: The word is defined as “harsh,” with synonyms including “brutal, cruel, drastic, exorbitant, extreme, heavy-handed, oppressive, rough, severe or strict.” And yes, it’s already being applied to the budget “cuts” experienced
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We Pissed Off The Geeks
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Sister Get Your Gun
We do things a bit differently here in South Carolina … Rather than actually fix our state’s bass-ackward tax code, we prefer to keep our citizens stupid and then offer them gimmicks involving guns. Only in South
Going Under
As goth beauty Amy Lee once sang, South Carolina is “going under” people. Oh, and “drowning you” with record unemployment and stagnant income levels. After a record explosion in state spending over the previous
Sic Willie On Tim Scott
The incoming freshman class of the S.C. House of Representatives couldn’t have picked a better Chairman than Charleston’s Tim Scott - or so says our founding editor in an exclusive video interview, taped yesterday afternoon on Interstate 26 between G-Vegas and Columbia, S.C. “He’s
“Sit Down And Shut Up … Or Else”
It’s obviously going to be a long time before a female politician earns a leadership position in Bobby Harrell’s “GOP-controlled” S.C. House of Representatives. It could also be a long time before anybody in




