“South Carolina, United States” on The Daily Caller

Last week, libertarian think tank the Cato Institute released its Fiscal Policy Report Card for governors. In the study, “governors are graded on their fiscal performance from a limited-government perspective,” earning points for tax cuts and spending cuts, and losing points for tax hikes and increased spending. (more)

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) warned Republicans will investigate President Obama’s birthplace if they take over Congress. (more)

The dam is breaking. (more)

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday called President Barack Obama “tone deaf” to the voices of the American people, slamming the president for putting forth the “most liberal agenda of modern times.” (more)

Last summer at this time, South Carolina Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene was a veritable nobody. Today, the unexpected, recently indicted, unemployed candidate for the world’s greatest deliberative body is a news media superstar, despite the bewildered mien — semi-reminiscent of the confused look The Daily Caller’s office dog, Charlie, gives when offered a stick of celery — Greene regularly displays when presented with questions of political significance such as the implications of “cap and trade” or “Middle East peace.” (more)

The man who shocked the political world by becoming a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate has been accused of using anti-gay and racial slurs. (more)

Republican incumbent Jim DeMint remains far ahead of surprise Democratic nominee Alvin Greene in the U.S. Senate race in South Carolina. (more)

GREENVILLE, S.C. – With just under 10 weeks before election day, South Carolina gubernatorial candidates each pitched their economic plans to about 200 business leaders Wednesday afternoon – with mixed results. (more)

Nikki Haley took her campaign to the northern part of South Carolina, touting elements of her newly released jobs plan and telling a crowd of 400 that she is running to “put common sense back in South Carolina.” (more)

Will higher tax penalties on investment really spur jobs and faster economic growth? Most commentators would say no. It’s really a matter of economic common sense. But Tim Geithner says, Yes! (more)

William Hartung, Director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, has come up with what he seems to think is a clincher argument for why the Senate should approve the New START treaty: Conservatives are against it. (more)

The Alvin Greene for U.S. Senate campaign is currently being run partly from the small South Carolina town of Manning, partly from Los Angeles and partly from Austria, according to the new consulting firm that has taken the reins of perhaps the most famous senatorial campaign in the country. (more)

Palin nomination brought out the little community organizers in scores of lefty journos — Charlie Crist is a momma’s boy — University attempts ‘thought reform’ on Christian student — Howard Dean and Newt Gingrich: A match made in the bowels of National Lampoon? — DOJ witness can’t testify in NBPP case — Cop Update: Many Federal police still do not understand the Bill of Rights (more)

Alvin Greene may be the end of democracy as we know it, or else he is a throwback to a time when America and its politics were simpler. (more)

When the NCAA handed down severe sanctions against USC last month, I wrote that the Committee on Infractions parlayed the Reggie Bush and O.J. Mayo scandals to send a message to athletic departments around the country about vigilance in monitoring star players’ relationships with prospective agents. (more)

LAS VEGAS—They came from Arizona and Australia, Boston and the Bahamas, South Carolina and South Africa to raise high the elixir of liberty in this, the most laissez-faire city in America. (more)

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney has raised nearly $3.5 million for his political action committee in the first half of the year, a sum that dwarfs that of other possible 2012 Republican presidential candidates and establishes the former Massachusetts governor as a potent political force. (more)

Now let me get this straight.  (1) The federal government abdicates its responsibility with respect to immigration enforcement. (2) Arizona enacts a law narrowly requiring state enforcement of federal immigration law. (3) The federal government sues Arizona for enacting that law?! (more)

There’s not a single black Republican in Congress today, but Allen West could change that if he wins his election this November. The Sarah Palin-backed veteran running for Florida’s 22nd House district says, however, that this fact is not very important. (more)

Dr. Malik Zulu Shabazz, the current Chairman of the New Black Panther Party, hit back against FOX News and its current coverage of the 2008 voter intimidation scandal. In an interview with Russian TV, Mr. Shabazz said FOX was “at war with Obama and the Justice Department” and had no intention of “being fair and balanced”. (more)