South Carolina slaveholder Katon Dawson was this close to becoming the new RNC chairman, but the yankees rallied ’round Maryland black person Michael Steele, who has since brought disgrace to the white party by talking about hip hop and websites. THIS WON’T STAND. Dawson is now orchestra...

Tennessee's spring football practices begin today, but it's really hard to imagine how Lane Kiffin's tenure as head coach could get any more entertaining than it's been so far. (Fingers crossed!) The guy has already stuffed a career's worth of crazy into just one offseason—and these are just t...

Sumter police investigating starving death of 1-year-old: Bond set for parents in starving death of 1-year-old son: 25-year-old Kevin Isaac and 23-year-old Marketta McCray of Sumter, South Carolina have been arrested in the starvation death of their son, 18-month-old Sincere Isaac. As usual police w...

Either today or tomorrow I'm going to call and talk to Gresham Barrett about his candidacy for governor, for the purposes of a column -- like the one I did on Vincent Sheheen. As I've indicated, I plan to focus on candidates for this job early, and give you, the voter, as much information as...

    Yep, you already read this here, back on Friday. But I post it not for you blog regulars, but for folks who saw it first in the paper today, and decided to come here for the version with links.     And if you did that, welcome to the blog... By BRAD WARTHENEDI...

By BRAD WARTHENEditorial Page Editor On a brilliant, warm February afternoon, I was holed up in a darkened booth in an Irish-themed pub talking local politics. Not exactly James Joyce’s “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,â€� but a reasonable Columbia facsimile.    Jack Van Loan was...

More than one friend has brought to my attention this piece from Salon, taking up the cudgels for a schoolgirl here in South Carolina: Friday February 27, 2009 06:11 EST Criticizing Ty'Sheoma Bethea I thought it would come from Michelle Malkin or Rush Limbaugh, but Malkin is too busy planning he...

    Old Jack raked the cinders together with a piece of cardboard and spread them judiciously over the whitening dome of coals. When the dome was thinly covered his face lapsed into darkness but, as he set himself to fan the fire again, his crouching shadow ascended the opposite wa...

The photo ID bill that caused such a flap in the House yesterday is one of those classic issues that partisans make a HUGE deal over, and which seems to me entirely undeserving of the fuss. The way I see it is this: It's ridiculous for Democrats to act like this is some kind of insupportable bur...

This just came to my attention, and in keeping with my efforts to begin chronicling the 2010 gubernatorial election (because the sooner we can get a new governor, the better), I share it with you: {BC-SC-Governor-Nelsen, 2nd Ld-Writethru,0320}{Furman professor plans GOP bid for SC governor}{Eds: UPD...