Marcus Lattimore; a fan of Texas Gov. Rick Perry?

Lattimore is a Christian and self-motivated.
Is he a Republican? (myheritage.com photo) 

The State newspaper is grousing that college presidents want no part of the trophy Texas Gov. Rick Perry commissioned of John Butler Bonham. The trophy goes to the winner of the now-annual SC-A&M game. Bonham was a Saluda County native and hero of the Alamo. The trophy was not presented on the field Thursday because the elites at the government-supported schools took a pass.
But in trying to show academia's disdain for Republican governors, did The State inadvertently give Perry a high-profile plug?
The State published a photo of Yolanda Smith, the mother of USC great Marcus Lattimore, smiling big, taking a selfie with Perry.
Lattimore, who is known for his strength of character, refusal to blame others and Christian beliefs certainly fits into the GOP, a lot more than he does the Democrat Party.
Democrats are far more likely to quit and blame others, while denouncing God and favoring government and their politicians as omnipotent power. 
Maybe Lattimore asked his mother to be sure to get a shot with Perry.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2014/08/30/3650918/why-colleges-have-no-part-in-governor.html#storylink=cpy

Democrats unveil another losing strategy on Labor Day eve

All signs lead to four
more years of Haley. As
a party, Democrats are seen
as bankrupt, and unacceptable. 

Labor Day is the traditional kick-off for the serious political campaign season to begin. It's time to declare

your path to victory, and the Democrats did not fail us, in revealing their hand.

The State newspaper’s Sunday headline says it all: “Vincent Sheheen hopes higher turnout, Gov. Nikki Haley administration missteps helps in rematch.”

The establishment media, Sheheen and the Democrat Party are one in the same.

Sheheen, with the Democrat Party's brand being a large liability, is not even going to try to tell you what a Democrat could do that is better. It's negative or nothing for Sheheen. He can thank Democrat President Barack Obama for rendering his party ID, toxic.

And by The State making an appeal, trying to increase the number of Democrat voters, it is saying Tom Ervin, the Democrat helpmate petition candidate, is not getting any traction. Skimming GOP voters, third-party-wise, is a non-starter at this point.

As for the “missteps” attack on Haley; that is just not working.

Sheheen has pushed ethics reform, DSS problems and cyber hack as a part of his campaign. None of it is sticking.

He likely has to have a miracle to win. Haley has worked to bring in jobs, despite a national economy on life support for every day Obama has been in office.

Haley has also been steadfast in rejecting ugly Obama polices like Obamacare and forced union labor demands in the state. 

Haley has opposed the unpopular Common Core education scheme and she's against illegal immigration as much as a governor can be. That is likely enough to get her re-elected.

As Sheheen and the media reveal their plan to unseat Haley, there is nothing new in today's declaration by The State. That being the case, Sheheen is heading toward another loss in November.

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Conner Shaw or Manziel - Real Johnny Football? (UPDATE-Shaw Cut)

Shaw, top, Manziel, bottom. Who
should be getting paid?

Ever wonder why the Cleveland Browns are a perennial loser in the National Football League.  The Browns drafted Johhny Maziel, watched Conner Shaw outperform him in the pre-season, then cut Shaw.
Fans saw the same determination that made Shaw loved at the University of South Carolina, and cried out for him Cleveland media. By cutting Shaw, it just adds immense pressure for the Browns to develop Manziel, and prove they did not add one mistake, of drafting Manziel, to the other mistake of cutting Shaw. Not very smart on Cleveland's past. But hey, It's Cleveland, what would you expect?

Waiting for the glitz to burn out is not new to Shaw.

The lives of SC's former QB Conner Shaw and Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel have become improbably intertwined.

Both were drafted by the NFL's Cleveland Browns. And their college teams opened the 2014 football season against each other.

Thursday night, while the nation waited to mourn the loss of Manziel from the No. 21 Aggies, it was the absence of Shaw that was most apparent for the No. 9 Gamecocks.

What lesson did we learn from Texas A&M's 52-28 beat-down of South Carolina?

A&M's record-breaking Ken Hill may have changed the name of the maturity-challenged, two-and-through Heisman-winner into Johnny Who.

On the other side of the field, Gamecock fans were left with a bad case of “You-Don't-Know-What-You-Got.”

And that's not where the Shaw-Manziel crossing-of-fates ends.

Shaw, and undrafted free agent, is the focused, squeaky-clean, open-minded student of a game he loves for its beauty.

Manziel, a first-round prick, is a flashy, brilliant at times, oversold pop-culture rant, who does not seem to understand the gifts that he has been given.

If justice and fair-play are the arbiter, could Shaw's humility trump the flash-in-the-pan?

So far, Shaw as a pro, has surprised those not from South Carolina, while Manziel has Browns' faithful wondering if its first pick was well-directed.

Cleveland could face a backlash from fans if it cuts the popular Shaw, and Manziel does not pan out.

For Shaw, it is not an unfamiliar predicament. Before quietly becoming the winningest QB in Gamecock history, Shaw waited his turn.

Before getting his shot at SC, Shaw watched a high-profile talent, by the name of Steven Garcia, who drew attention like a lightening rod. Shaw sat with confidence, and without a word, as Garcia burned his opportunity. The determined Shaw knew what he would do, given his chance.

That experience could pay huge dividends for the Browns, if they place merit before pride.

But it's the NFL. Will discernment be put before shallow ego?
Maybe the Browns can afford to do it their way. But Gamecock fans sure are happy, Shaw was allowed to do it his way at South Carolina.

It's too early to count out a Spurrier team

Spurrier lives to make those
who hate him, eat their words.
Don't expect him to lay
down and quit.

Last year (2013) the South Carolina Gamecocks suffered an ugly 41-30 loss at Georgia. It was only the second game of the season. Thursday, Texas A&M embarrassed the No. 9 Gamecocks 52-28 in the opener.

In both games, USC's defense looked atrocious. Last year, USC responded by winning 10 of its next 11 games, to finished 11-2, with a No. 4 national ranking. Georgia finished 8-5.

Today, the media is pouncing on the Gamecocks with both feet. Picking at the team's bones. Spurrier-haters are in full yell, mixing it with laughter. Many Gamecock fans are in fee-fall, vowing an abandonment of the team. Georgia is already chalking the Gamecocks up and an easy win. One amateur prediction on a pay-site says the Gamecocks, who face ECU next Saturday, are looking at starting the season 1-4.

But Gamecock fans have been here, or even lower, before. Spurrier knows what to do. History tells us he will make the adjustments and salvage what he can. It may be that the talent to win in double digits is not there. If so, Spurrier will have to figure out why it's not?

Winners stand up and slap back at their detractors with full-force. They don't quit. Spurrier is a winner, so if you are against him and the Gamecocks, it may be a little early to be burying him, and his team.  

Expect him to come back with an answer. He will not be defined by one ugly loss. 

Spurrier says coaching personnel a problem after A&M debacle

It took a couple years to
manifest, but is SC's D suffering
from the loss of Johnson, top,
and Lawing, bottom? 

USC Head Football Coach Steve Spurrier was very specific about who was responsible for the 52-28 rout of his Gamecocks, by Texas A&M,  Thursday night.

Postgame, Spurrier said: “We've got some coaching decisions to make. To see if we can't find a pass rush somehow. He also said the “players are better than what they showed.”

“Coaching decisions” to make. Does that mean someone is facing termination of employment? Or maybe an in-season demotion?
The team's defense was beaten on a historical level. 

Spurrier was obviously most disgusted with his team's defensive line and the failure of the newly installed 3-4 defensive alignment.

So was it the the job of DL Coach Deke Adams Spurrier was wondering out loud about?

The former UNC coach took over for the veteran, accomplished and well-respected Brad Lawing. Lawing up, and unexpectedly, left USC for Florida in 2012. It was a big loss for the Gamecock defense. Many wondered, when he was hired, if Adams was the most-capable and qualified replacement. 

Aside from that, Defensive Coordinator Ellis Johnson quit the Gamecocks after the 2011 season for a disastrous one-year stint as USM's head coach. Johsnon is now defensive coordinator for Auburn, a team that played for a national championship last year. How much did losing Johnson hurt?

If Johnson and Lawing were still at the University of South Carolina, the Gamecocks would likely truly be one of the Top 5 programs in the country.

As it is, Spurrier is left to wonder who is he going to have to replace on his coaching staff?
And how long will it take to get his defense back to where it was a couple years ago, as the ghosts of Johnson and Lawing haunt the USC locker room.

Poll that shows Haley with a large lead over Sheheen, attacked

Governor's sittin' pretty. 

A new  Rasmussen  poll shows Republican Gov. Nikki Haley ahead of Democratic challenger Vincent Sheheen  by a 51 to 36 percent margin. 

Rasmussen has at times been one of the most accurate polls in America. It is a very objective poll. 

But because the numbers show Democrat darling Sheheen way behind, The State tries to discredit the poll, calling it "right-leaning." 

The State then tries to equate the Rasmussen poll with the an ultra-liberal  Public Policy Poll. Done in June, the PPP showed Haley ahead a 49 percent to 46 percent lead. 

Considering the widespread

unpopularity of the Democrat brand, and the damaging polices of the Obama Administration to South Carolina families, logic would dictate that Rasmussen is more accurate.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2014/08/28/3645341/poll-gov-nikki-haley-outpacing.html?sp=%2F99%2F132%2F312%2F169%2F1084%2F#storylink=cpy

Gov. Rick Perry is a TRUE football fan

Gary David had a great interview on
WVOC with Gov. Rick Perry. Fair
media for a Republicans in Columbia is
not common. 

Gov. Rick Perry impressive on his trip to South Carolina.

Taking my son to school this morning, I heard WVOC-radio's  Gary David interviewing Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry.
First of all: Gary David the only voice in Columbia politics-related radio with the stature, and projected integrity, to do professional political interviews.
Gary David is very respectful, without a sense of pandering or a pervasive tone of flippancy. He's not trying to be a "zany" morning zoo clown-DJ.
In the short interview, Perry explained the Border Security issue very well. Perry presented the idea of illegal alien children being jettisoned to America, by themselves, as a matter of child danger.
The media, covering for Obama, refuses to ask how a parent could let their child be exposed to drug lords, perverts and criminals?
The media does not cover it accurately, but a majority of Americans (especially our parents)  see it as Perry described it. He worries for those children. He's not concerned with using them to enrich himself, as Obama and the Democrat Party want to do.
Link: Hear the full interview
Also: Perry is in Columbia for the BIG Texas A&M football game versus South Carolina at 6 p.m.
In the interview, Perry didn't feign Gamecock support or play "get-along" politics. That's refreshing.
If you are a true sports fan, you tend to trust - or at least understand - a fellow rabid sports fan a little more.
Perry made no apologies about his allegiance to A&M. He's an A&M grad. He hopes the Aggies beat the Gamecocks. He knew A&M was walking into a lion's den, but he expected to win.

Columbia's Democrat Mayor, Steve Benjamin gets free pass on ethics

The Republican was forced to
resign, Benjamin walks free. 

Former Republican Lt. Gov. Ken Ard, must be livid. Columbia Democrat Mayor Steven Benjamin accepted strippers, jet trips and the royal treatment, but that's OK.  Is anyone surprised?

The State Ethics Commission, Wednesday,  ruled that Columbia Mayor Steven Benjamin did not have to report a Dec. 2010, party-trip to Florida, on a wealthy developer's private jet.

The Benjamin junket included ground-travel in a limousine. 

Benjamin was also showered with high-priced dining, a trip to a strip club, where he was given $5 bills to tip nude women dancers. 

Witnesses in a federal public corruption trial also said Benjamin got money back on a government-funded housing deal and represented power and influence in the awarding of contracts.

Despite the fact that two women from the strip club were paid to return to the hotel with Benjamin and partner, ethics said Benjamin was in the right. 

But remember, former Lt. Gov. Ken Ard was forced to resign from office, after using his own money, donated to his campaign, to purchase items for his family. Some of it for his office, and on his wife, in preparation for his inaugural.

Spurrier persistence at SC brings reward

The  College football season begins Thursday.

The drought for that fans love will soon become a downpour of pageantry, pomp and beautiful sun-drenched, Saturday afternoons. If the day games do not provide the fix, afternoons transition into night and loud, colorful and bright-light stadiums.

(This article was first posted on July 17) 
It is a game that anticipates new faces every year, while welcoming back the beloved.
And maybe, as Steve Spurrier ages a little, and the realization that his legend will not forever be tangible, he is being appreciated.
At Media Days this year, there seems to be a sense of reverence for  the University of South Carolina Football Coach, who can evoke hate, just by being himself.
Spurrier has earned as much respect, if ever anyone has.
He has averaged more than 10 wins a year, in the last four years at South Carolina.
He finished the 2013 season ranked No. 4 in the nation. He has won three straight bowl games and beaten rival Clemson five years in a row. He has never had a losing season in nine years as the Gamecocks' coach.
But it was not always like that.
Even the media in Columbia SC flew hawk-like over Spurrier, waiting for a gaffe or a boast, that could be taken to run with. The local "media boys" not used to being upstaged, met Spurrier with eye-rolls, and a lack of belief that he could win at South Carolina.
Ron Morris, columnist for Columbia's The State newspaper, went so far as to compare Spurrier and the program to the child-rape scandal at Penn State. The ridiculous and unfair attacks by Morris were finally silenced by his employers, who saw he was losing a sense of reality in his desire to smother Spurrier's star.
Aside from a gratuitously confrontational media, there were bugaboos inside the institutional establishment that may have been working against Spurrier and success.
There was a case made in 2008, that USC football players were being targeted by police. A Spurrier-friendly USC Board member publicized the charge. But there were other status-quo board members who scoffed at the claims. Eventually the charges of unfair treatment of players was backed up by a State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) agent, and the targeting stopped.
The board members not supporting Spurrier are now gone.
And there is former USC Athletic Director Eric Hyman. Hyman did not hire Spurrier, and often seemed more intent on pleasing the AD community, more than working with his high-profile football coach.
Hyman left the USC program two years ago, to become AD at Texas A&M. Former USC Baseball Coach Ray Tanner is now the AD. He and Spurrier are kindred spirits in understanding a coach's challenges.
Through so many program-weakening obstacles, you have to believe Spurrier felt like quitting at times. Most would feel that way. But Spurrier persevered. He did not back down. He knows he is a winner, working toward that winning hand. He is seeing it to the end.
He has slain his demons. Those who have stood defiant against him now rest upon the ash heap.
Spurrier is still at the university, bigger and badder than ever. He is an example of a man who stood for what he believed in, and took on those who would steal what was his.
If only all of our leaders had the talent, character, and determination to do the right thing, despite the odds.  If so, every South Carolinian would be the beneficiary. Because of his expert administration and talent, Gamecock fans are basking in Spurrier's aura - more-so than ever - as the dawn of a new gridiron season awaits. 

Sheheen Campaign has few options, with damaged Democrat brand

Sheheen will have to use Common
Core math or import busloads of
Philadelphia precinct bosses to
get the numbers to favor him.  

Sen. Vincent Sheheen, the Democrat candidate for governor has a new TV ad criticizing Gov. Nikki Haley.
The ad attacks Haley for not immediately making it public that hackers had breached the S.C. Revenue Department's data base and took the financial information of millions of the state's taxpayers.
If the data breach is the best Sheheen can do, after her four years in office, he has next-to nothing.
Voters should fully expect the media to produce a victim of the data breach, closer to the election. But the truth is, the data breach likely led to more people securing their personal information. And that decreased identity theft.
Not only that, taxpayers were victimized, and the state used their money to buy taxpayers identity protection. The people paying finally got something back.
Sheheen's bigger problem is the damaged brand of the Democrat Party.
Democrats have made such a mess of the U.S. economy, Sheheen should be hiding the "D" beside his name (he probably is.)
Natioanlly, foreign policy is a mess and healthcare costs are skyrocketing, along with already high gas and food prices. On top of that, the jobs rate and incomes are down.  Race relations are abysmal, with mass polarization.
And the Blame Game is over. It's laughable to hear Democrats invoke the name of Bush as an explanation.
South Carolina voters usually get it, at least on the Big Picture scale.
And the fact that we understand the difference between Democrat and Republican results, is bad news for Sheheen.

Obama, Benjamin represent failure, not race in West Columbia controversy

Liberal media race-baiting will not
help Owens.

Injecting race into everything, with no solutions to Democrat failure, likely to hurt candidates. 

West Columbia mayor Joe Owens is in a political fight with his council members over whether there should be a strong-mayor form of government in the city.

It will be left up to the voters of West Columbia in a Sept. 30 referendum.

But by invoking race into the contest, has the media damaged the prospects of Owens to get the strong-mayor set-up he'd like?

In an Aug. 27, column The State newspaper says: “Whether racist or just racially insensitive, West Columbia, SC, campaign sign unacceptable.”

The column is penned by racially absurd Associate Editor Warren Bolton.

The sign is implying that too much power, to failed leaders should be avoided. It has absolutely nothing to do with race and everything to do with poor leadership.

SC Political Digest chronicled the opening ring of the circus when The State predictably infused race, but more-subtlety, in a Saturday news piece.

See SCPD Saturday article: Media cries"Racism" over media comparison to Obama failure

The more-blatant Bolton says: “Mayor Owens’ critics are so set on derailing his attempt to get voters to adopt a strong-mayor system in West Columbia that they resorted to one of the oldest, sickest political tricks: Blame the black man. They didn’t even try to hide the obvious appeal to race. Call it racist or racially insensitive — take your pick — the yard sign picturing Mr. Owens, who is white, sandwiched between President Obama and Mayor Benjamin, both African-Americans, is downright dirty dealing.

The message on the sign said: “Want to have ONE voice controlling our government? Me neither. Vote No! to strong mayor. Unite our city.”

I guess Bolton thinks he is helping Owens, but a leftwing, race-baiting columnist is not likely to impress or bully the people of West Columbia. In fact, many Americans are so turned off by the ignorance of the race debate in America, defending him with the architects of polarization will likely hurt him, more than help.

Owens should call Bolton and ask him to butt-out. He's done enough to influence the race already. But

not in a way Owens would like.

Attack on Christians could unite Gamecocks and Tigers

Clemson football Coach Dabo Sweeney became a Christian  in a sports-related setting, according to Jonathan Jones of The Charlotte Observer newspaper.

"I've never been bashful about telling people I'm a Christian," Swinney says. "That's just who I am."

And he has that right, even if you don't like the Tigers. Gamecock fans, many who are Christians will defend Swinney's freedom to allow Christian inspiration if he feels it's appropriate.

To deny speech because it is not in-line with pop culture, atheists or agnostics is not only un-American, it's un-Constitutional.

But for his faith, Swinney has become a target of the left and the media.

In its headline, Tuesday, the Observer asks: are Sweeney, and fellow Christian Georgia Coach Mark Richt crossing the line for being openly Christian in front of players?

The media is giving voice to FFRF, or the the Freedom from Religion Foundation. It accuses Clemson and

Swinney of allowing (Christian) devotionals, that were organized by the team chaplain and led by members of the coaching staff.

"I mean, that's a lot of praying going on," Annie Laurie Gaylor told Jones.

She is co-president of the FFRF, a nonprofit atheist and agnostic group. "And it's all orchestrated by the authority figures. And that is abusive, she said."

FFRF says "the state-funded school's football program is "entangled" in Christianity, and those decisively Christian actions can be coercive for an impressionable young man.

Gaylor also told the reporter not to end her name with a “D”-- "I like to joke that there's no 'Lord' in my name," she said.

She can demand what you do not do in spelling her name, and Gaylor does not seem to mind telling others they cannot include Christianity in their lives.

Former Clemson coach Tommy Bowden likely said it best, according to the Observer article.

Bowden said “he doesn't believe anything will change with Clemson any time soon. Although, he said, he expects the publicity around the issue will help Swinney's recruiting efforts, making him and the school more attractive for parents who want their sons to follow a religious path.

"I can't understand why an atheist group from Wisconsin will go into the epicenter of Christianity, Clemson, S.C., the epicenter of the Bible Belt and take on a coach that's just won 11 games two years in a row and beaten Ohio State, Georgia and LSU," Bowden said. "Why would they even want to?

"They will get absolutely no support from the secular arena --- the administration, the president, the board. They got no chance. That's why they should pick a battle they can win."

What Bowden may be overlooking, by getting the liberal media in Charlotte to jump on this story, it is a win. 

Racial politics of hate, like the Pharisees who crucified Jesus

We should all pray that Michael Brown
got the chance to repent. 

The level of hatred from the Black Community against innocent whites is offensive in Ferguson Mo.
And one of the most egregious acts of the leftwing political movement upon our society is to pervert Holy Scripture to benefit liberal politics and politicians. It is a tactic the unholy have used throughout time.  
On Monday, during the funeral of alleged violent thief and cop attacker, Michael Brown, his pastor-uncle rattled off a litany of inane references to equate Brown with Jesus Christ. The references were kooky at best. Ignorance-based at worst. 
God forgives all sin, and if the "pastor" were being true to Christ's teachings, maybe he should be praying that Brown had a chance, as we all need, to repent. We should all pray that Brown saw the light before he perpetuated his own death through his violent acts. 
We should also thank God for comforting officer Darren Wilson who works to protect the weak and defenseless. He was subject to a bullying and a lawless attack by Brown. The non-violent majority are coming to his aid. 
The whole ugly mess in Ferguson is characterizing the absurd nature of the Black Community in America, as it relates to politics.
Michael Brown was a criminal. His defense is based in lies and myths. Yet his apologists ignore truth, and perpetuate ignorance and hate in the name of God. 
If the Brown pastor, members of the Obama government and the Black Movement really want to compare themselves Biblically, they far more resemble the Pharisees of Jesus time on Earth.  
The Pharisees were corrupt, pious and arrogant. They so hated the truth, they crucified Jesus for preaching it. 
Eventually, though His sacrifice, Jesus overcame his bitter murderers. If the United States is to continue to be the world's light for Justice and Christ's mercy and strength, we must also overcome the evil and despicable acts and behavior of the Black political community against the innocent. 

Democrat operative spying on Haley

Ironically, Haley's stalker, makes her identity
difficult to find. There is a Linked-In photo,
but I decided to protect her privacy. 

Imagine if someone followed you around all day with a video camera, just waiting to pounce on any gaff you make. And then the creepy space-violator gives their “incriminating” video to a willing media so they can have a field day crucifying you.
Remember how the media took out George Allen in Virginia. 

Kate Sarna, a Democratic political operative is paid tailgate and film Republican Gov. Nikki Haley. Because of the total creepiness of her behavior, Sarna was asked to leave an Atlantic Beach Town Council meeting that Haley attended in July.

The State newspaper is melting down over Sarna's exclusion.

The State is demanding access to public meetings.

But recently the SC Supreme Court failed to back the media and liberal Freedom of Information laws.

The SC Supreme Court ruled in June that state and local governing bodies can modify public meeting agendas at will and it also said public bodies don't have to submit agendas.

Media, FOI thyself: are you the true intellectual criminals?

The media is whining but is it being given less access because it has abused its privileges?

The people don't care that the media is losing rights.

We may have a low opinion of politicians, but we actually elect them. The media has no governing body, other than out-of-state, out-of-touch editors and publishers.
Media czars ram their world view down our throats and we have no recourse. So much media has a goal to manipulate the public, so that we adhere to the media's agenda.

In short, we're not likely to care that some restrictions are put on the media, because the media is trusted less than politicians. We want you to complain about your voice being ignored, because that is how we feel when the establishment media does it to us.

To ask us to care, is asking for sympathy for the Devil. And the people you dislike and ridicule, do not believe the Devil deserves any sympathy. You're too powerful already.

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Home school grows with rejectinon of government control

As student count declines, and students
leave public schools, should funding
continue to increase, for fewer students?
(SCAIHS Photo)

Many South Carolina parents will not sit down while the government dictates failure and pop culture values

to them.

From 2013 to 2014, nearly 1,000 more students became home schooled in South Carolina.

According to The S.C. Department of Education 15,826 students are home schooled in South Carolina.

Charlene Witt of the S.C. Association of Independent Home Schools told The State newspaper “Your most successful home schools are where your parents are home schooling because they believe that family and their family values, their spiritual values are important to their children, and they want to instill those values.”

At an Aiken public school this year, God was omitted from the Pledge of Allegiance. In Summerville, a student was suspended for writing fiction in which a dinosaur was shot with a gun.

With such disrespect for our culture and public school hard-headed ignorance, it's no wonder children are leaving.

Even in Lexington County, that boasts some of the highest achievement in public schools in the nation, at least 1.000 students are home schooled. It's difficult to get a more accurate number of home schoolers between Richland and Lexington counties because Lexington-Richland 5 contains students from both counties.

It is clear that students are leaving traditional public schools in higher numbers.

There are 768,000 students in the state. Aside from home schools, thousands more students are in private schools. Many private schools are Christian church-sponsored.

And according to Mary Carmichael, Public Charter School Alliance of South Carolina executive director, there are about 24,000 students in public charter schools. That number has doubled in five years. She also said there are about 40 groups waiting to start new charter schools.

Another interesting fact reported by The State is that “the number of students enrolled in private schools has fallen in recent years – 26 percent between 2008-13, according to the education department.

That is likely because many parents have lost a job in the weak Obama-economy. Obama was elected in 2008, and many have been forced from the workforce. Logic follows that many would rather home school their child than pay for private schools.

On top of that, the Administration of President Barack Obama is behind federal-based Common Core Standards that many values-minded parents strongly oppose.

Lexington School District 1 is an avid advocate of Common Core despite all signals that the state's legislature will eliminate Common Core. The state's Education Oversight Commission and SC School Board, prodded by the establishment media, are insisting on including Common Core in state standards, defying what lawmakers are telling them.

The defiance will result in the continued abandoning of public schools by parents. It is likely the brightest and highest achieving students are leaving public schools. Aware parents are far more likely to remove a child from the cookie-cutter mold of government-controlled schools. As a result standardized test scores are on the decline among public school students.
How much rejection of public schools will it take before education industry controllers react to the people of South Carolina, instead of their own interests and values? 

Who shot Suge Knight?

Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was shot early Sunday morning at a pre-MTV Video Music Awards party

Would Obama say Suge is his
would-be brother, without the
weight, the beard, the ears and bling.

on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, TMZ and other news outlets are reporting.

He remains in intensive care after undergoing surgery at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, TMZ says.

Shots struck Death Row Records co-founder Knight, 49, at a nightclub party hosted by Chris Brown. Video posted at TMZ shows Knight getting into a police car after the shooting and the site says he was one of three victims.

*Rumor has it that Suge came out w/ his hands up and begged the police (disguised as Rapper Thugs) not to shoot. The police (disguised as Rapper Thugs) shot anyway. MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News' Chris Wallace are confirming the rumors, because US AG Eric Holder ( who admits he is the subject of racial profiling) said so.  

President Barack Obama will make a statement later. He is expected to say: "The police is ALWAYS wrong and if I had a brother, he'd be living in a hut on Kenya...oops, scratch that: He'd look like Suge, except 40 pounds lighter, not as dark, no beard, with bigger ears and sans the jewelry." *

"It's disappointing that we as a society can't have fun or enjoy ourselves without any altercations sometimes," Brown tweeted after the shooting.

In 1996, Knight was in the car with Tupac Shakur when the rapper was fatally shot in Las Vegas.

When contacted by USA TODAY, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said no report has been released yet and the investigation is ongoing, Deputy Jeff Gordonsays.

*But whatever the sheriff says, the media and Obama will not believe it.*  

*A portion of the above is satire. Can you tell which part? And of course, SC Political Digest wishes Suge the best, and a speedy recovery. 

SC Political Digest: Pro-Border Security Rally in Greenville, draws lar...

SC Political Digest: Pro-Border Security Rally in Greenville, draws lar...: Protesters rallied in front of the federal courthouse in Greenville on Saturday to draw attention to an overwhelming concern about U.S. Bor...

Pro-Border Security Rally in Greenville, draws large crowd

Protesters rallied in front of the federal courthouse in Greenville on Saturday to draw attention to an overwhelming concern about U.S. Border security.

"This is about a literal invasion of the United States," said William G. Carter, state chairman of the South Carolina Conservative Action Council and organizer of the rally. 

"The face of the United States will never be the same if Barack Obama has his way," Carter said, facing a combative media. 

Carter referenced the exposure to tuberculosis of Clemson University students and a DHEC cover-up of the tuberculosis outbreak at Greenwood's public schools. He said illegal aliens are not being tested.

Carter said not only are we importing a health crisis, but drug criminals are getting into the country easily.

Carter said President Barack Obama wants illegal aliens here to add votes for Democrat politicians.

He also alluded to the 68,000 convicted felons released by the Obama Administration. 

“The federal government has lost its way. It is not enforcing the laws,” Carter said.

Thomas Ravenel hires pro-abortion activist as communications director

Liberal abortion crusader joins
forces with convicted drug felon. 

Amy Brandstadter Lazenby, a liberal contributor to the anti-Republican and gossip-monger Web-log, FITS News, has been hired as the Communications Director for the Thomas Ravenel Senate campaign. 

A Sunday press release bears her name and title. Lazenby's name is also included in an Aug. 17 release.
Lazenby, who claims she's not a lobbyist, but a legislative advocate, is married to the wealthy owner of a large personal injury law firm that was moved from Spartanburg to Athens Ga.
She has contributed several written pieces to FITS. Most of her activism is based on a pro-abortion agenda. She has also promoted the homosexual lobby for government-funded perpetuating of their cause. And in opposition to law enforcement and promotion of race-baiting cliches Lazenby wrote: “White people are afraid of a black man in the dark, even when he’s not doing anything wrong.”
Lazenby - in long diatribes - recites mostly the cliches  that are in line with the ignorance and myths of liberal theology. 
Her job with Ravenel comes after a March 5, announcement on FITS that read: "After a several month hiatus, I’m returning to FITSNews as Associate Opinion Editor." But her by-lined, ultra leftist diatribes have been few and far between. But the site has taken an almost blatant Democrat stance of late. 

Ravenel claims to be a Libertarian. But could his choice of Lazenby be a sign that he is gone totally leftwing? 

Ravenel, a convicted drug felon has no chance to defeat US Senator Lindsey Graham, but the Democrats have adopted a strategy of using third-party ploys to skim GOP votes, so the Democrat is elected.
Graham is especially vulnerable because he can stray leftward at times. 

The third-party stooge scheme worked in the 2013 Virginia governor's race. That state recently announced a $2.4 billion deficit, but Democrat Gov. Terry McCauliffe said he will force expensive Obamacare on the state, even though its GOP General Assembly rejected it.

South Carolina, if Ravenel is successful, will face the same dangers and indebtedness of Democrats that  Virginia faces.

Better news from Ferguson, Mo. liberals angry over Officer Darren Wilson fundraising

Is the REAL America speaking, in
opposition to media and race-baiting
opportunists, exploiting Ferguson?

Americans are telling officer Wilson "We've got your back, brother." 

“An online fundraising drive for Darren Wilson has collected close to $305,00.

Wilson is the police officer who defended himself against attacking 6-4, 290 lb. Michael Brown with his service weapon.

The newest site has already taken in close to $107,000. The first site maxed out at more than $240,000.

Contribute to help defend Officer Darren Wilson!

Establishment media organizations are focusing on harsh comments expressed by Wilson supporters and liberal crackpot web posters are demanding that the company hosting the fundraising ban the campaign to fund Wilson's defense. 

One reason the leftists and anti-law protesters are angry is that Wilson is attracting more support than the fund for Brown, who perpetrated the incident that cost him his life.

S.C. Political Digest suggested support for Wilson more than a week ago: Officer Darren Wilson: Time to defend the police against ignorant thugs!

Thank God the contributors outnumber the lawless looting bullies. Sympathy for Brown, and the rioters, along with intended mis-information has dominated news coverage of the attack on Wilson, and the shooting death of Brown.

Maybe this is a watershed moment in this country where we reject the liars and the corrupt media, and its disgusting opportunist, race-based politicians.

“One fundraising Web page for officer Wilson, took in so many donations, so much money it was shut down and a second page was opened, with its donations being directed to a fund managed by the local Fraternal Order of Police lodge," said the New York Times.

A woman who organized a rally for Wilson would not give her name, fearing an attack from the media. And the kind of people supporting Brown's side are not the kind of people you want to identify you either.

When pressed for her name, she said only, “I am Darren Wilson,” a play on the popular mantra that followed the shooting death in Florida of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager,” according to the NYT.

That is so ingenious. Using leftwing tactics on them for a change. 

“The woman said donations poured in from around the nation from people of different races, most of whom were afraid to show their faces or publicly give their names. The site had to remove nasty comments being posted by people angry at Wilson,” said the Times.

A related Facebook page for Wilson had nearly 60,000 “likes.” The rally organizer said the page was being monitored for vitriol.

“We are working around the clock to clear the hate,” I am Darren Wilson, said.

Perverting race relations for political gain is one of the most-damaging strategies the Democrat Party is using today. They will not stop until it backfires on them. But of course, if these greedy liberals see there is more money in justice, you may actually see an exodus to the side of right.  

Aiken school takes God from pledge, has to apologize after mother speaks out

Jessica Andrews let her voice be heard.
She received an apology and God
is now back in the Pledge, as intended.
Good work

According to The Washington Times (of Aug. 20) a "South Carolina elementary school has apologized after a fourth-grade teacher omitted the words “under God” from a copy of the Pledge of Allegiance she handed out to students."
The article says: "Jessica Andrews, whose daughter attends Chukker Creek Elementary School in Aiken, said she was shocked when her daughter showed her a copy of the pledge without any mention of God."
Parents speaking out is where we'll change in South Carolina. They are your schools. You pay DEARLY for them, especially if you own a car or a house.
Andrews told Fox News' Todd Starnes: “We are so quick to change our religion to accommodate everyone else. It’s outrageous, to be honest. It seems like the government is doing everything they can to take God out of everything.”
Congratulations Jessica. You inspire all of us to act, in hopes of making a positive change. We must act in opposition to some of the pop culture decay all around us, and our children.

Border security stand in Greenville today

The South Carolina Conservative Action Council (SCCAC)

announces a Secure the Border / Impeach Barack Obama RALLY

To be held on

Saturday, August 23, 2014

from 1 PM to 4 PM

at the Federal Building

300 East Washington Street

Greenville, S.C.

This is our fifth rally to secure the border and stop illegal immigration in eight years. In 2006 over 1200 people attended our first rally to expose Lindsey Graham's support for amnesty. This massive showing must be repeated to send a message to the South Carolina Congressional delegation that the people of South Carolina oppose amnesty for illegal immigration (violators). It is imperative that you attend this event and bring others with you.

Barack Obama has rigged this border-children affair in an attempt to force the congress to support amnesty. He has violated the Constitution and is encouraging others by his lawless acts while encouraging a massive influx of illegals, some of whom harbor virulent diseases or political beliefs and have absolutely no regard for our laws. His goal is to import revolution by creating a man-made crisis on the border as an excuse to import millions of new Democrat voters. His goal is a one-party dictatorship!

We need your help. All organizations and individuals supporting border restoration are invited to participate. Won't you fill in and send us the form below today, and mark the event date on your calendar?

Liberals invoke race as Obama is used as sign of failure in West Columbia

The media is not complaining
 about these signs, because there
no reference to the failure of the
omni- powerful Obama, who has
divided America.

A political yard sign by the opposition to a West Columbia strong mayor referendum includes a photo of President Barack Obama and Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin. It has the message: “Want to have ONE voice controlling our government? Me neither. Vote No! to strong mayor. Unite our city.”

West Columbia United (WCU) produced the signs.

Since Obama took office, unemployment has skyrocketed, household incomes have steadily dropped, gas and food prices have spiked, justice is perverted, the debt is exponentially higher, and US foreign policy is in chaos. The president has failed to address any issue with success.

Benjamin has been linked to parties with strippers, payouts on government housing deals, influence peddling and ethics incompetence.

But connecting a political enemy to Obama or Benjamin is racial taboo according to the media.

The State newspaper says: “The president and Benjamin are African-Americans, while Owens is white. The mayor has several local African-American community leaders supporting him in the upcoming showdown on who will be in control at City Hall.”

The State even demanded an answer for the sign.

“It has nothing to do with race,” Bruce Brutschy said of the images. “It points to the larger scene to what’s wrong with politically operated government.” Brutschy is chief of WCU.
Brutschey, in a press conference a week-and-half ago linked Obama's IRS targeting scandal as a byproduct  of unbridled power. Much of the reason Obama has escaped accountability is because the media ignores the many scandals that have enveloped his presidency. 

Ironically, Democrat candidate for governor, Vincent Sheheen, refuses to connect himself to the powerful  Democrats Obama and Benjamin, but the media has not linked Sheheen to that large and obvious bashing by omission. Must be great to be a liberal.

NAACP not the answer to solving Myrtle Beach violence and crime issues

Mickey James, president of the Myrtle Beach branch of the NAACP, and other community organizers said

Three gunned down, and the NAACP
is lashing out at city officials. 

city officials are not involving them enough.

Myrtle Beach officials are working to improve safety during Memorial Day weekend. Crime, murder and other violence are a trademark of Bikefest, that features a majority of Black bikers on the summer kick-off holiday. Three men were shot down in the streets at Bikefest earlier this year.

The NAACP, et al, held a press conference in Myrtle Beach Thursday.

"You had a chance to bring us to the table and you wouldn't even do it," James complained.

He also said that whites are just as bad, but not labeled for their criminal actions.

What Mr. James does not get, is that he is seen as the problem, as much as anyone.

But he is more interested in blaming people not like him, than taking any responsibility.

The NAACP has been around for decades, but it never seems to contribute to any solutions. It just acts as a  political weapon for the Democrat Party.

The truth is, if we REALLY want to decrease crime and violence in Myrtle Beach, or anywhere, we are going to have to stand up to the hate-filled, race-based rhetoric of anti-productive impediments like Mickey James.

Everybody knows that, but we're too nice, or too frightened to say it.

Political "Experts" say Haley will win, don't mention Democrat brand liability

Political scientists say Sheheen (below) will
lose the governor's race again because of
straight ticket party voters. But the real reason
 may be because he is silent about the damage
Obama (above) policies have done.  

The State newspaper reported on the musings of five college political science experts from a Thursday gathering to discuss the 2014 S.C. governor's race. 

They predicted a Nikki Haley re-election, but they left out a lot of the reason why.

Challenger Vincent Sheheen has not once denounced any of the unpopular and failed policies from national Democrats that have damaged the country. Sheheen has instead tried to bring down Haley. She has rejected the policies of President Barack Obama, from Common Core to the expansion of expensive healthcare programs for high-risk patients. 

Haley has fought Obama in court to bring in Boeing jobs and she had to defend voter integrity laws instituted by the state. Haley has beaten Obama in court each time. Sheheen has not made Obama policy an issue, and voters may not trust him because of that.

The political scientists did agree that Haley is the favorite.

The State says: Gov. Nikki Haley has the edge in her November rematch against Democratic challenger Vincent Sheheen,” according to the panel of S.C. political scientists.

But there was a “but.”

“But the state senator from Camden could pull off an upset by getting a large turnout of his supporters, the experts added,” The State's Andrew Shain intoned.

Not sure why Shain would add his opinion so high in the story in The State on Friday.

Shain said: “Two of the five political scientists foretasted “a 10-percentage point win for Haley.”

One of the “experts” who picked Haley was Clemson University political scientist David Woodard.

Woodard, who taught Sheheen as an undergrad, established an anti-Haley campaign in 2010, before she defeated Sheheen by 4.5 percentage points.

Another of the political scientists is blaming Sheheen for his predicament.

According to The State: “Francis Marion University political scientist Alissa Warters called Sheheen’s campaign “lackluster.”

Sheheen has tried to use jobs to tear down Haley, a security breach and problems with people tied to the state's social welfare system. Not much has stuck for Sheheen.

The experts mentioned petition gubernatorial candidate Tom Ervin, a wealthy Upstate trial lawyer who is self-funded at more than $3.5 million. They said Ervin's money is not likely to take enough voters from Haley because: “Too many voters push party buttons to elect a slate of candidates.”

Woodard said “Vincent Sheheen is a great candidate. He just has the wrong letter after his name. He’d be a superstar (in the GOP).”

Maybe these experts should have mentioned that each party has a platform, and a record. And as long as Sheheen is singing the party line, and Haley sticks close enough to her party, Democrats will continue to lose in statewide offices.
Maybe that's a reality that is just too hard for them to admit.

State newspaper references to Al Jazerra in demand for more SC education money

Should South Carolina defer to Al Jazerra
for input on running its schools?
(Pat Dollard image)

Politicians, media and education industry insiders dominate public schools because that's where the money is. They do not want to let go, and they want more.

The State newspaper's Associate Editor Cindi Ross Scoppe is deferring to Al Jazerra, Jihadi network news for advice to run South Carolina's schools.

Al Gore sold his TV network to Al Jazerra. 

Scoppe, a rabid Common Core advocate, is lamenting that Al Jazerra network news “sent a crew down to South Carolina to chronicle the horrid conditions of the school buildings and the embarrassingly outdated textbooks and report the depressing test scores and recount the generational poverty......”

You get the picture. The Corridor of Shame, schools along SC's I-95, revisited. Scoppe is describing South

Carolina's version of bankrupt Detroit.

Scoppe, in her Thursday column, did not note that The Corridor of Shame and Detroit have Democrat-rule in common. And the liberal education industry has been running those schools for decades.

In a nutshell (and so typical of the left) Scoppe is mad because she believes that pooling even more state money, and sending it to these poor-performing districts will save them.

But that experiment has been tried with terrible results.

Just one example: In the early 1990s, Fairfield County had its school board taken over, by the voting process.

There was nothing illegal about it. But Fairfield County has one school district. The schools received enormous amounts of money because V.C. Summer nuclear facility is located there, and it paid millions in property taxes for a small number of students.

Al Gore TV became Al Jazerra. The
network was in South Carolina to
show how bad our schools are. 

The district was awash in money. School board members took lavish trips to education conferences, tipped well, and built news schools. All paid for with school tax revenues. The media was slow to report how the new leftwing school leadership managed the district's finances.

Fairfield County ranked in the top five in the state for funding, but near the bottom for achievement.

Fairfield County had a high number of out-of-wedlock births. It ranked near the top in teenage parents and as a consequence most of the students received free lunch.

Socially, what the parents were teaching the children, was the “education” problem, in Fairfield County, not money.

The well-financed schools were a disaster because the leaders in them, were much like Scoppe. Money, not character or morals, were the focus.

If you want the state's public school students to continue to struggle, take the advice of Scoppe and Al Jazerra. If you really care about the future of South Carolina's children, vote to remove every Democrat from office. We've tried it their way. It's time to do something new. 

Democrat Sheheen: food stamp recipients' jobs are not real, should not count

Democrats have capitalized on welfare
 for generations. It is angering the media and
Sheheen that a Republican woman is beating
him by lessening the amount of welfare.

Sheheen doesn't like numbers, accuses Gov. Haley of "lying."

Vincent Sheheen, Democrat candidate for S.C.governor, is implying people who work, and are on food stamps should not count. 

He diminished the contributions of people who cannot find a full time job, in an economy that has been bad since President Barack Obama took office in 2009.

“What counts as employment at the Department of Social Services is not even a real full-time job,” Sheheen told reporters in Columbia Wednesday (according to The State newspaper.) Sheheen said “some former welfare recipients are counted as success stories but earn so little that they still need assistance.”

But all families, and the people of South Carolina, have been struggling in the Obama-conomy. Just because you have a hard time making it now, does not mean you don't count.

Sheheen's comments are purely political. The State newspaper, a Sheheen advocate, admitted he “is hoping to make (Gov. Nikki) Haley’s management of Social Services a key issue in their November rematch for governor.”

What is angering Sheheen and The State is that Haley is counting those who find any work, as better off than receiving a check for doing nothing. Some work, but still need food stamps. The State and Sheheen do not think they should be counted.

The State and Sheheen don't like the fact that “Food stamp recipients qualify as welfare-to-work successes at Social Services if they find a job that pays at least the federal hourly minimum wage of $7.25.”

But work is work. No matter how little it pays, it helps the employee with self-esteem and confidence issues.

Reporting it as some sort of “Smoking Gun” The State said: Social Services confirmed Wednesday that some of the 24,859 people that it counts as welfare-to-work success stories still might qualify for food stamps, one form of welfare assistance.”

It should not matter what the job is, it should count, no matter if Democrats and The State protest.

Supreme Court blocks government-sanctioned marriage based on sexual preference

Even the old USSR is getting into
expanded government recognition
based on sexual preference

After celebrations a few weeks ago, stemming from a court win siding with homosexual special interests, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the start of same-sex marriage in Virginia, Wednesday. But the victory for the intended definition of marriage supporters could be temporary. 

The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court had ruled in favor of gay marriage, overturning a voter-requested ban in S.C. 

All of the voters in every state that has been asked, also voted to not redefine marriage based on sexual preference.

Wednesday's ruling, came after a county court in northern Virginia asked the Supreme Court to block same-sex marriages across Virginia. The issue is being appealed to the Supreme Court.

Some lower level courts have lifted state Constitutional definitions that exclude government-recognized marriage based on homosexual preferences.

Most other federal court decisions in favor of same-sex marriage also have been put on hold.

Strange media behavior after white, unarmed 20-year-old fatally shot by Black police officer

President Obama has not mentioned the fatal shooting of
Dillon Taylor  by a Black policeman. No "Civil Rights leaders"
have surfaced in Utah, and the national media is not very interested.  

Rush Limbaugh caller exposes Black cop who shot unarmed white man

According to a caller to the Rush Limbaugh show Wednesday, the police department will not release the 911 call or the video related to the fatal shooting. 

South Salt Lake (Utah) police are investigating the Aug. 12, shooting of Dillon Taylor, 20, who was unarmed. Taylor is white.

But the media is reluctant to confirm that Taylor was unarmed, and they are identifying the Black police officer who shot him, as “other-than-white.”

According to KUTV, in Salt lake City, Dillon Taylor, from Salt Lake, was exiting a 7-Eleven with his brother (Jerrail) and cousin, Adam Thayne, around 7 p.m. when Salt Lake City police arrived, responding to a report of a man waving a gun in the area.
The officers ordered the men to the ground. Two of them complied, but Dillon, who police say matched the suspect's description, did not go down.
"It came in as a 911 call that there was a man with a gun," said South Salt Lake Police Sgt. Darrin Sweeten. "He was verbally challenged and ultimately was shot."
Sweeten did not release further details on the shooting on Tuesday.
Dillon's brother and cousin claim they were on their way to visit his parents' graves and that Dillon was surprised by the police presence. He was not aggressive, they said.
"He had headphones in, and he couldn't hear [anything], and then they finally surrounded him," Jerrail said. "They're like, 'Get on the ground,' and [he] pulled up his pants and [they] shot him."
Thayne believes police might have thought his cousin was reaching for a gun when, in reality, he grabbed his cell phone.
"I was in shock, because he was wearing a white t-shirt and there was blood all over it," Thayne said. "They ran up and handcuffed him. He wasn't moving."
A witness's video shows police yelling for the two men to remain on the ground as Thayne repeatedly screams that they have shot his cousin.
The two men were taken to the police station, but released hours later without being charged or cited. Family said Dillon had had struggles throughout his teenage and adult life, including a criminal past, after losing his parents at the age of 12.

They hope to remember him as a loyal friend and devoted father-to-be. His girlfriend is just a couple months pregnant, Jerrail said."He was the funniest kid ever," Jerrail said. "His own baby will never meet him."