SC National Day of Prayer Makes History
"This is an historic day," said South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster. The 2020 observance of the National Day of Prayer marks the 70th year and this Jubilee anniversary on the North Steps of the South Carolina State house is historic in a number of ways. The Governor continued, "We are facing a...
The Electoral College: Pros and Cons
I was sitting at my desk a few days ago thinking about this weird, well at least entertaining, primary season when it hit me that we are really and truly nearing yet another Presidential Election. My first thought was “Well, here we go again. I guess we need to get our act together for yet...
What is the Current Inflation Rate?
Current Annual inflation for the 12 months ending in March 2020 is 1.54% down from 2.33% in February The inflation rate plays an important role in determining the health of an economy. Countries with extremely high inflation rates are said to have hyperinflation and when this occurs the economy is...
Senators Charge Big Banks with Discrimination Against Firearms Industry
Members of the United States Senate are warning big banks to abstain from predatory and discriminatory practices against gun stores and firearms-based businesses during the recent COVID19 pandemic. Banks are using recovery funds as a bludgeon against industries they politically oppose....
12 Things to Know About How COVID-19 Is Affecting the Grocery Industry
Food is essential to keeping us alive and maintaining our health. Eating and cooking are also sources of comfort for many. So when grocery stores across the country have empty shelves, it can be panic-inducing. From dangers lurking in the store to what the unofficial food of the...
The Myth that Americans Were Poorly Educated before Mass Government Schooling
Early America had widespread literacy and a vibrant culture of learning. Detail of Girl Reading by Edmund Charles Tarbell (Public Domain) Parents the world over are dealing with massive adjustments in their children’s education that they could not have anticipated just three months ago. To...
Justice for General Flynn
It was a setup from the very beginning… General Flynn was framed by the corrupt Obama FBI and DOJ. Because anyone who supports President Trump MUST be Destroyed. General Flynn will be exonerated. The Deep State cabal put General Flynn and his family through over four years of hell. They...
Doctors Speak Out About Fallacies of Covid
"ER Doctors are being pressured to add Covid on death reports now." Two doctors who own a chain of Urgent Health Care clinics in California spoke out about the current Covid panic raging across the United States last week. Drs. Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi, met with local Bakersfield...
US Senate Race Official as Graham Seeks Re-Election
The Palmetto State’s senior Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-Seneca) is set to seek a 4th, six-year term this year, and as usual, faces a multitude of challengers starting with the tentatively scheduled GOP Primary on June 9th. Graham’s one-eighty puts him in strong position for re-election. Graham, whose...
Buckner Speaks at Reopen SC Rally
The State Capitol in Columbia, was the rallying point for the ‘Defend Our Freedom’ day sponsored by TURN Local. Between 700-1,000 people showed up in a mix of concerned citizens who met on the Statehouse grounds and many circling the Capitol in their cars and trucks. They gathered to speak to the...
Green New Deal Is Agenda 21: The Growing Drive to Make it Law
For more than 30 years I’ve worn a tinfoil hat because I, and a few others were able to read between the lines of the UN’s Agenda 21. Then, last year when the global forces used a nitwit bartender to launch their Green New Deal, the Republican Party laughed, but immediately I could see exactly...
Local Emergency Coronavirus Orders Threatening Constitutional Rights?
When Columbia city leaders imposed a curfew more than weeks ago in response to the coronavirus outbreak, they required residents in most cases – under the threat of possible jail time – to isolate themselves in their homes between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. In justifying the curfew, mayor Steve Benjamin...
SC Senators Call for Gov. McMaster to Order Abortion Facilities Closed During Coronavirus Crisis
More than a dozen senators in South Carolina have signed on to an open letter to Gov. Henry McMaster, asking that he require abortion facilities in the state to close in light of his executive order halting “all elective and non-threatening surgical and medical procedures” in the midst of...
Human Lab Rats: The U.S. Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments
“They were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.” — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children I have never known any government to put the best interests of its people...
Safeguarding the Republic
The coronavirus panic this spring has take its toll on the physical mental and spiritual faculties of a great many people throughout the country. As each state governor has declared a state of emergency they have suspended the very laws which guarantee our liberties, the Bill of Rights and the...
If You’re Sick, Stay Home, If Not, Let’s Get to Work!
Governor Henry McMaster has been put in a difficult position. He has a very healthy population of South Carolinians with a few who are sick or immuno compromised, with a potentially fatal disease lurking in some shadows. It is the duty of the governor to protect the citizens of this state, but...
Eyes Wide Open
OPINION Several of my supporters encouraged me to expand my thinking on the potential for partisan politics, worldview predispositions, and the potential for data manipulation from the so-called healthcare experts. The following is an expansion and continuation from an earlier commentary....
Economy and Liberty Suffering in the Coronavirus Ward
The Coronavirus sick ward is visited by one of the premier political cartoonists of our time A.F. Branco. As always he is right on target with his creations as the US economy and our civil liberties have been and are continually being assaulted today as never before in this country. ...
Going to Georgia for a Haircut
I heard a rumor this morning Georgia is going to completely reopen its economy for business later this week. I am planning a drive to Hartwell, Georgia, for a haircut and a meal in a Mexican restaurant I enjoy there. They will probably keep up the silly "social distancing" nonsense so those of us...
1950s-1960s Baseball, Olympia, and Jerry Martin
Jerry Martin grew up around the winning sports traditions of Olympia Mills. He graduated from Olympia High school in the late 1960s. He went on to play in the major leagues and make a career out of a game that most just enjoy as a past time. Jerry started in the big leagues with the Philadelphia...
Who wants to be the top Tyrant?
Open it up shut it down, whatever… We are at a time when the liberties of Americans have been thrown out the window by elected and appointed leaders all over the country. Unfortunately, at this time, most Americans appear to be just fine with the constitution being halted during the time of...
SC Primary Election Candidates Roundup
You are going through unforeseen episodes in your life and guessing what will happen going forward. While it is an unknown when our elections will happen moving forward, I’m here to guide you through who the candidates and issues are – today, for races for the SC House. The South Carolina Primary...
Crowded Race to Take Out Pelosi Lapdog in SC-1
It’s at the top of the list. What list? The Republican list of Democrat members of congress targeted in 2020 as Republicans look to take back the house. That is the distinction for South Carolina’s 1st congressional district that covers the lowcountry. In a 2018 midterm election which favored...
Executive Orders, Police Violate Rights
After just 30 days of voluntarily and government orders to stay home from their jobs in obedience to President Trump and State Governors executive orders to quarantine due to the CoVid-19 virus, 16,780,000 Americans have lost their jobs. South Carolinians filed for unemployment in record setting...
Hungary Gains Dictator Due to Emergency Powers
The corona virus has has created "stay at home" orders around the United States in an effort to slow or stop the spread the effects on the populous. Thankfully, the virus has not been anywhere near as lethal as was predicted. But, that has not stopped Governor's across the land from wielding...
Patriots Refuse to Disarm
Despite the mounting tension in the South, the main focus of potential revolutionary conflict was still Massachusetts. The British authorities, ever more attracted to a hard line, were becoming increasingly disenchanted with the timorousness and caution of General Gage, who had actually...
Actor Dennis Quaid Sees ‘Spiritual Reawakening’ Breaking Out Due to COVID-19
Actor Dennis Quaid believes a “spiritual reawakening” is happening in the United States as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Fox News host Dana Perino asked the star of hits like “The Right Stuff” (1983), “The Rookie” (2002), and more recently the Christian film “I Can Only Imagine” (2018)...
The Growing China Threat
Author’s note: For years US leaders have pandered to Communist China, ignoring the growing danger from a powerful and hostile enemy. Suddenly our nation finds itself in the middle of a health crisis that started in China, and then we discovered that almost all of our medicines and other vital...
SC Makes Top Ten Most Sinful States List
A Business Insider article recently captured and categorized the most sinful states in the country. South Carolina was among the top ten according to BI. Among the qualities measured to deduce the designation of those most sinful were the following traits: hate, jealousy, excesses, greed, lust,...
COVID-19 Pandemic Is Over?
Private businesses across the country have taken a beating following "emergency closing" declarations by President Trump and State governors. These emergency declarations have had the effect of stifling and ceasing cash and customer flow for many if not most small businesses. Promises to supply...
The Problem of Virginia and The Political Map of South Carolina: A Legislative Picture
In an article dated February 16th in The Roanoke Times, Bob Gibson reported that, “ Virginia’s General Assembly session is hurtling ... to make up for lost time and pass bills rarely allowed out of committees in recent years.” To advance the Democratic majority, Governor Northam and the General...
Exploiting a Pandemic to Ban Church
Big Brother—er, I mean—the Mendocino County, California Health Department has issued an Order mandating the following for streaming church services: No singing or use of wind instruments, harmonicas, or other instruments that could spread COVID-19 through projected droplets shall be permitted...
Is This How Europe Ends?
“Fortress Europe is an illusion.” So declares the Financial Times in the closing line of its Saturday editorial: “Europe Cannot Ignore Syrian Migrant Crisis.” The FT undertakes to instruct the Old Continent on what its duty is and what its future holds: “The EU will face flows of migrants and...
“Virginia, Monuments, and the Republican Quandary”
Robert E. Lee sculpture in Richmond, Virginia. Photo courtesy of Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Last year Virginians elected one of the most radical Democratic state governments in recent memory on the backs of forty-two percent of registered voters. In several districts, the...
Virus & Other Stuff
I got out of the house for the first time since the overreaction started last month. It looks very odd to see so few cars on the road. I noticed QT has regular gasoline for $1.69 a gallon. Wal-Mart is just about back to normal. I saw a few people wearing masks and the shelves were just about bare...
How do you want to live?
THE QUESTION BEFORE US More and more we are hearing from doctors and other health professionals questioning whether the dangers of coronavirus have been overstated and that the reaction to it has been overblown. Even beyond the controversial reports concerning the downsizing of virus lethality by...
When the whirlwind passes…
In Proverbs 10:25 we find Solomon’s timely caution that “When the whirlwind passes by, the wicked is no more, but the righteous has an everlasting foundation.” Commenting on this particular verse, Jewish Hebrew scholar Michael V. Fox writes: “This gale hits everyone, not just the wicked. Thus it...
Will the FDA Find Courage in the Age of CoViD-19?
The health professionals working day and night to care for an ever increasing number of sick patients make me proud to be a doctor. And kudos to the grocery store workers, postal workers, police and many others who are performing essential jobs with a smile. This is the time for positive action,...
Hydroxychloroquine Treatment Effective on Every One of Hundreds of Patients
The Hydroxychloroquine treatment is working! In an exclusive interview, Dr. Vladimir Zelenko shares a preliminary study outlining that out of hundreds of patients treated, he has had ZERO deaths, ZERO intubations, and four hospitalizations. Dr. Zelenko breaks it down and gives a lucid explanation...
Filing for SC Elections have Closed, Here is What You Need to Know
You are going through unforeseen episodes in your life and guessing what will happen going forward. While it is an unknown when our elections will happen moving forward, I’m here to guide you through who the candidates and issues are – today, for races for the SC House. The South Carolina Primary...
Taiwan — Non-Communist China — is “Safe” from Coronavirus Without Shutting Down!
Frequent, random temperature checks is one of 124 “action items” taken by Taiwan to make its 23 million people “safe” from the coronavirus. Photo by NBCnews. Taiwan stopped the #coronavirus without shutting down their country. Taiwan is Free China — the only province of China not conquered and...
Not a Socialist Country?
It seems like only yesterday that President Trump firmly declared “America will never be a socialist country”. Well, as they say: “That was yesterday…and yesterday’s gone.” In an abrupt departure from his earlier rhetoric, the president is now engaged in promoting a whirlwind of socialist schemes...
Facts and fiction surrounding COVID-19
Having been in the media arena for several decades I am still amazed at how much false and misleading things are shared to and by the public. The current so called COVID-19 event has refreshed my memory on how easy false information is put out and the likelihood the public will take it for gospel....
Ammunition Sales Continue to Soar in Response to Coronavirus Panic
As the novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) spreads across the United States, its impact can be seen in every community. Businesses and schools are closed, the market is volatile, and store shelves are empty as the public scrambles to protect itself and obey governmental orders social distancing...
Feds Have Terrible Credit and They’ve Got a New Card for Coronavirus
We are currently in a war against an enemy we cannot see. If there is a time for the government to extend itself, this is probably it. The unknown of the full extent of the Coronavirus pandemic and the decisions coming down from the federal government to combat it will involve spending like we...
Social Security Reality
Social security is an abomination. If you ask the average person, they will tell you it is a great example of what socialism represents. What it is in reality is a glorified Ponzi scheme. Here is how it works: You have a job that pays you $35,000 dollars a year. You pay 12.4% of your pay in Social...
Car Crashes Soaring in Pot-Legal States
There are many people who drive while in an altered state of consciousness, while either on alcohol or drugs. This potentially puts the lives of innocent people in jeopardy on a regular basis. Legislatures are determining if legalizing "recreational" drugs like marijuana is a wise course of...
Former Citadel Football Standout Leads to Find Cure for Paralysis
If courage is grace under fire, Marc Buoniconti ranks among the bravest men you’ll ever know. Since 1985 he has been unable to move a muscle below his neck due to a spinal cord injury. Yet, each day he moves people; moves them to understand the tragedy of paralyzing SCI — and to join him in...
U.S. Core Inflation Quickens; Consumer Prices In February Rise 0.1%
The staff at US Inflation Calculator recently compiled information on the economy and the effect of inflation. Their research is reposted below: Higher food, shelter, vehicle, medical care and clothing prices drove up the U.S. cost of living in February, data released March 11 by the...
The Destruction of Marriage Precedes The Death of a Culture
In his 1979 book, Our Dance Has Turned To Death, Christian sociologist Carl W. Wilson outlined the dangers facing traditional marriage and the family in America's increasingly sexualized culture. Wilson could clearly see what was going to happen to the American family if our society continued to...
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