Newt Gingrich’s South Carolina State co-chairman John Napier knew the “Gingrich surge” was real last Sunday afternoon. Napier, a former U.S. Congressman and retired Federal Judge, pulled into the parking lot of the Land’s End Restaurant in Georgetown, S.C. for a Gingrich event expected to draw 25-30 people. Instead, over 350 people showed up before […]
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“As goes South Carolina, so goes the rest of the South.” Those were the words of late South Carolina GOP Chairman Dan Ross in 1979 when the South Carolina Republican Party officially established its presidential primary beginning in 1980. Since then, and with every presidential election cycle since, South Carolina has always gotten it right. […]
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By Van Hipp These are tough times for many American families this Christmas. People are hurting. Fortunately, this week thousands of these families in need are showing up at Salvation Army distribution centers all across the United States to receive Christmas gifts for their children and food baskets for their families. Yes, once again, no […]
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Last summer, when all of the pundits had pretty much written off Newt Gingrich’s presidential candidacy, my niece, a college sophomore whom I always believed to be apolitical, remarked, “My friends and I like Newt – he tweets a lot on Twitter.” I should have remembered that. Two years earlier, I had heard Gingrich speak […]
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Growing up as a boy in the South Carolina Low Country, I was, like all of my friends, a Smokin’ Joe fan. Frazier, the son of a Beaufort, South Carolina sharecropper and one of twelve children, had a big heart both inside and outside of the ring. At the age of twelve, he told his […]
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By Lynne P. Shackleford A Republican presidential primary debate will broadcast live from Wofford College on Nov. 12. The debate is scheduled to be broadcast live on CBS and will be sponsored by the network and National Journal. Scott Pelley, anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley,” and National Journal […]
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By Van Hipp Appearing in Canada Free Press Checking the China Scorecard – Friend or Foe? “There is a bear in the woods. For some people, the bear is easy to see. Others don’t see it at all. Some people say the bear is tame. Others say it’s vicious and dangerous. Since no one can […]
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