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Newberry Judge Request Sworn Medical Affidavits and Sets Near-Term Deadline in Jeff Davis Case
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- By James Spurck, Publisher
“This Court is at a loss as to why the Plaintiff’s (Jeff Davis) present medical situation exists when four doctors agreed that full recovery should have already occurred.”
A Newberry County Circuit Court judge has issued a new order in the long-running civil case involving the current Greenville County Republican Party Chairman, Jeff Davis, requiring sworn medical affidavits to justify continued delays in court proceedings.
This time, Circuit Court Judge Donald B. Hocker issued the order without a hearing, marking the fourth order entered since the South Carolina Court of Appeals issued guidance in late 2024.
In a prior order issued in May 2025, the court anticipated scheduling a hearing on pending appellate stay matters by November 2025 based on medical opinions from treating physicians indicating Davis would be able to resume normal activities. When the court recently attempted to schedule a hearing, Davis reported that he could not attend due to ongoing medical treatment.
Greenland Defense and Arctic Economic Development
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- By Mike Scruggs
From Erik the Red to Pituffik Space Base
If you look at a global map centered on the North Pole, you will notice that Russia has the largest exposure to the Arctic Ocean, nearly 50 percent. Advancing technology or warmer climate could result in more viable Arctic seaports and trade passages to both the North Atlantic and Northwest Pacific, cutting down the time and possibly the cost of shipping goods. The United States, especially Alaska, Canada, and the Scandinavian countries could also benefit from such expanded, shorter, and cheaper trade routes.
Moreover, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, resource basins within the Arctic Circle (North of 66.5 Latitude) contain 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil and 30 percent of the world’s undiscovered natural gas. Currently, developing these resources would cost 50 to 100 percent more than in Texas, but technologies to reduce costs are developing rapidly. The Russians and others are pouring investments into Arctic infrastructure and extraction technology. The Arctic resource basins are also rich in phosphate, bauxite (for aluminum), iron ore, copper, nickel, diamonds, gold, zinc, and palladium.
These Are The New Times That Are “Trying Our Souls”! This Is Our New “American Crisis”!
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- By W.H. Lamb
If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all His commands I will give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of Earth. All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God.”
Deuteronomy 28:1-2 NIV (Deuteronomy was George Washington’s favorite Book of the Bible).
THE AMERICAN CRISIS: COMMON SENSE No. 1 (Jan. 1776), by Thomas Paine (An excerpt)
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated….
The Iranian Dilemma
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- By Mike Scruggs
Political and Military Tensions in West Asia
The population of Iran was 92.5 million in 2025. It has the 17th largest population among the nations of the world, and is also the 17th largest in geographical area. It was known as Persia until 1935. According to the Library of Congress, only 65 percent of its population is ethnically Persian. Some estimates have Iran at only 51 percent Persian. The principal minorities, according to the Library of Congress, are Azerbaijanis, 16 percent; Kurds, 7 percent; Lurs 6 percent; Arabs, 2 percent; and Balochis, 2 percent. Others include Turkic tribes, Armenians, Assyrians, and Georgians. There are also many Afghan refugees. Among the Armenians, Assyrians, and Georgians are between 250,000 and 370,000 Christians. However, the vast majority of all Iranians speak the Persian language.
Are You, As A Christian, Or A Person Of Faith, Involved In Politics? Should You Be?
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- By W.H. Lamb
Well, should you? That seems to be a somewhat divisive question of late. Perhaps it depends on how one defines “politics”. Should those of us who identify as Christians, particularly the “born-again variety”, or “People of Faith”, involve ourselves in the often dishonest and somewhat sordid and divisive “blood sport” known as “politics” throughout much of American history, and especially over the past century or so? Should we allow ourselves to be immersed, to one degree or another, in the “mud-slinging”, the invectives, the anger, the hurt feelings, the breakup of family and friends, even the unconstitutional violence that is being deliberately induced within our culture over recent decades—and especially in the past few years—indeed in this very day in parts of our nation being overwhelmed by Marxist/globalist insurrectionists---by the lovers of “politics”, most of it the leftist/progressive/communist version, as they confront the lovers of “constitutional government”, the form that was established for us by the men and women who founded this nation? Is a clash of civilizational survival imminent due to this fascination that a significant portion of humanity has with “politics” rather than with “principles”? Ah, those are questions to ponder, aren’t they? Let’s delve into it.
Genetic Entropy
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- By Charles Creager, Jr.
Genetic Entropy is a hypothesis in population genetics that proposes genomes inevitably accumulate harmful mutations over time, leading to a gradual, unavoidable decline in biological fitness—even in the presence of natural selection. The concept is most strongly associated with Dr. John C. Sanford, a former Cornell University geneticist, and is often discussed in creationist and intelligent design literature.
1. Core Idea of Genetic Entropy
Genetic entropy argues that most mutations are slightly deleterious, but too small for natural selection to detect, and therefore accumulate over generations, degrading the genome. This accumulation supposedly leads to reduced fitness, increased genetic load, and eventual population collapse or extinction
Prepared Remarks from Palmetto Family Alliance President Steve Pettit
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- By Palmetto Family Alliance
COLUMBIA, SC – Palmetto Family Alliance President Steve Pettit made the following remarks regarding H. 4760 when he testified to the Constitutional Laws Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee earlier today:
“The heartbeat of the pro-life movement has always been clear: all human life is sacred from conception. This is not merely a political stance; it is a moral conviction rooted in God’s design, affirmed by our nation’s founders, and upheld by people of faith throughout history.
In the Jewish tradition, there is a principle called pikuach nefesh—the saving of life. The rabbis taught that saving even one life overrides nearly every other commandment, because life itself is the foundation of all other values. Without life, there is no freedom, no justice, no faith, no future.
“If You’ve Never Had Filet Mignon, Peanut Butter Tastes Just Fine”
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- By James Spurck, Publisher
South Carolina’s House Must Choose the Real Meal in Primary Reform – H. 3310
At a recent press conference at the South Carolina State House, Rep. Mike Burns delivered what could become the defining quote of this year’s state legislative fight over election reform. Referring to two competing primary election bills now before the House, Burns reached back to an old Jean Shepard country song At the Time, for illustration:
“‘If you’ve never had filet mignon, peanut butter tastes just fine.’ We have two bills: one is filet, and the other is peanut butter. We get to make a decision next Wednesday morning.”
This alimentary decision is expected to come before the House Judiciary Committee next Wednesday, January 21, at noon. It is not just about legislative preference. It is about whether South Carolina Republicans will finally enact true closed primaries or settle for something weaker, with less muscle behind it, an insider-controlled, establishment substitute being marketed as a strong, healthy reform.
Democrat-Turned-Republican Pascoe Makes Third Appearance Before Greenville County GOP
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- By Terry M. Thacker
First Judicial Circuit Solicitor David Pascoe, a candidate for Attorney General running as a Republican, addressed the Greenville County Republican Party this past Monday at their quarterly business meeting.
Pascoe, a long-time Democrat, announced his change of allegiance to the Republican Party in April of last year, in time to run for the seat being vacated by Alan Wilson, who is himself a candidate for governor.
Savvy politicians know that it is a long shot to run for statewide office in South Carolina as a Democrat. In fact, the last time a Democrat was elected Attorney General in the Palmetto State was Thomas T. Medlock in 1990. The last Democrat to be elected to any statewide office in the state was Jim Rex, who was elected as Secretary of Education in 2006.
Hear or See Something? Say Something: Crime Stoppers of Greenville Marks Awareness Month
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- By James Spurck, Publisher
Sheriff Lewis and Lt. Governor Evette highlight the impact of anonymous tips in solving crimes
GREENVILLE – January is Crime Stoppers Awareness Month, and Crime Stoppers of Greenville used its January monthly open business meeting this week to highlight how anonymous citizen tips continue to play a vital role in solving crimes and protecting public safety across Greenville County.
The meeting opened with remarks from Crime Stoppers of Greenville President Felicia Robbins and Board Member Joey Hudson, who is also well-known as a local talk show host on WORD. Hudson gave the invocation and welcomed law enforcement partners, community leaders, and members of the media, noting that Crime Stoppers of Greenville depends on cooperation between citizens, law enforcement, and local media to function effectively.
Crime Stoppers of Greenville provides a way for people to be involved in fighting crime while never having to fear their identity being revealed, Hudson said. That partnership is what makes this program work.
SCOTUS Seems to Favor State Laws Shielding Girls’ Sports
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- By S.A. McCarthy - The Washington Stand
A pair of lawsuits challenging state protections for girls’ sports has reached the U.S. Supreme Court, where the nation’s highest judges appear inclined to side with state governments seeking to prevent biological boys from competing as girls. Oral arguments were heard Tuesday in the cases Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. BPJ, originating from Idaho’s and West Virginia’s state laws, respectively, barring biological males from competing in female sports. In both cases, Republican-appointed justices seemed to favor upholding the state laws.
Palmetto Family Alliance Statement on H. 4756
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- By Palmetto Family Alliance
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Palmetto Family Alliance President Steve Pettit issued the following statement regarding H. 4756, the South Carolina Student Physical Privacy Act, which is being considered in a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee today:
“As South Carolina’s leading voice for biblical values, Palmetto Family Alliance strongly supports H. 4756, the South Carolina Student Physical Privacy Act. This commonsense legislation upholds the dignity, safety, and privacy of students in public schools and higher education institutions by ensuring that restrooms, changing facilities, and sleeping quarters are designated and used based on biological sex.
Prison Fellowship International’s In-Prison Evangelism Program Graduates One Millionth Prisoner
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- By Prison Fellowship International
Faith-based prison program marks historic graduation milestone in global prison ministry
WASHINGTON — Prison Fellowship International’s in-prison evangelism program, The Prisoner’s Journey® (TPJ) has graduated its one millionth prisoner. Since its launch in 2014, the program has invited more than two million prisoners in nearly 900 prisons worldwide to explore Jesus’ life and teachings through the Gospel of Mark.
To date, 1,010,621 prisoners have accepted the invitation, continued through the eight-week course and received a Bible in their heart language through program graduation. Nearly 70% of graduates continue into additional evangelism or discipleship courses, one of the strongest indicators of lasting life change and transformation.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Any Still Around?
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- By Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. - Arizona Today
It was not a particularly cold evening, cool, but the campfire felt good and comfortable. It was July 9, 1755, about 8:00pm on the Allegheny Plateau in north-central West Virginia on the Banks of the Monongahela River. A small group of soldiers were sitting around simply staring into the fire, when the colonel took off his coat. Shaking it out, he found two bullet holes that had passed through the fabric. He stared at them in disbelief, pushing a finger through each hole as if to convince himself that they were indeed real. This small group of officers were watching. One of them, a scrawny Virginian with jet-black hair, leaned forward on his knees and stated, “there is another one in your hat, sir.” The colonel took his hat off and examined it. Sure enough, there was another hole.
No Compromise on the Hyde Amendment
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- By Star Parker
Last year we went through the longest government shutdown in history.
The point of contention was the extension of what were supposed to be temporary additional Obamacare subsidies enacted during COVID-19.
"Temporary" in Washington means forever. This is what must change.
The "temporary" subsidies were supposed to expire last year. But Democrats could not resist the opportunity to push Republicans up against the wall and associate them with Obamacare premium increases.
Stop Pretending That Colleges Are Nonprofit Institutions
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- By Stephen Moore
Here's a recent story from the Chicago Tribune that jumped off the page when I read it. Northwestern University is finishing up the construction of a new $800 million football stadium. This is supposedly a nonprofit "educational" entity.
Uh-huh.
Northwestern -- an "institution of higher learning" located outside of Chicago -- is flush with cash. It has an endowment of nearly $15 billion, and the tax-free donations keep flowing in.
Almost all the $800 million -- which rivals the cost of professional sports arenas with luxury skyboxes and opulent decor -- for the lavish Taj Mahal football stadium on the shores of Lake Michigan was donated to the school with tax-deductible dollars. About half the money came from multibillionaire Pat Ryan. No word yet as to whether the Northwestern stadium will come with hot tubs in the end zones.
Ask Ralph Media Celebrates 1,000th Episode of Financially Confident Christian
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- By Ask Ralph Media, Inc.
A Daily Podcast Empowering Listeners to Overcome Financial Shame with Faith and Practical Wisdom
MIDDLETOWN, Del. — Ask Ralph Media, Inc., a leader in faith-forward financial education, today announced the release of Episode 1,000 of its daily podcast, Financially Confident Christian. Hosted by licensed accountant and business coach Ralph Estep Jr., the show delivers short, steady encouragement for people who want calmer money habits rooted in biblical truth.
Johnson: Tax Dollars 'Will Never Be Used to Pay for Abortion. Period. Full Stop. End of Sentence.'
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- By Suzanne Bowdey - The Washington Stand
They’ve only been in session a week, but it’s already been a rocky new year for Republican leaders. Despite a big win on appropriations that brings Congress one step closer to avoiding a government shutdown, virtually everything has been overshadowed by the stormy clouds of the health care debate. First, President Trump dropped an atomic bomb on his party with his sudden “flexibility” on taxpayer-funded abortion. Then, 17 members of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) majority decided to become the first Republicans ever to vote for the expensive failure known as Obamacare. But as the speaker knows better than anyone: since when has the GOP made anything easy?
Statehouse Update January 13-15
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- By Brendan Connors - SC Policy Council
The second half of the 2025-26 legislative session starts this week. Lawmakers are wasting no time picking up where they left off—and we’re right alongside them. Each week, the Policy Council will bring you updates on legislation dealing with the budget, tax relief, government transparency, and other issues that matter most to the success of our great state. As of Monday, January 12, here are the bills we are keeping an eye on.
2026 Legislative Priorities
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- By SC Freedom Caucus
Closed Primaries - H.3310
By a margin of more than 80%, the voters of South Carolina have repeatedly told the legislature that they want closed partisan primaries. Yet despite the bill to do so being filed for more than 20 years, we’ve never even received a subcommittee meeting until now. The external pressure from voters and the actions of the SCFC inside the chamber have led to the closed primary bill, H 3310, being scheduled for a hearing on January 15th at 9am. That’s the good news. Here’s the bad news…
The House rules state that all committee meetings automatically adjourn at 10am when we start session on the floor of the House. Those in leadership who oppose closed primaries decided to use this rule to try and thwart the will of the voters by placing 3 other bills ahead of H 3310 on the committee schedule. If the hour runs out without a vote on 3310, then it will not move on to full committee or the floor for a vote.
Oreshnik Number 2
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- By Mike Scruggs
The Russian Hypersonic Missile and Its Message
On January 8, the Russians fired an Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile at a largely underground natural gas storage facility near Lviv, in western Ukraine, from central Russia. It is the second Oreshnik that has been used in the Ukraine-NATO Proxy War against Russia. The Oreshnik is now in serial production. The first experimental test of the Oreshnik against Ukraine was on November 21, 2024, against an industrial aerospace military plant near Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth largest city, on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River.
Trump and Venezuela: It’s a Lot More Than Oil
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- By Joseph M. Bianchi
The present situation in Venezuela seems to be a foreign policy conundrum: Maduro is in custody, but the country is still extremely unstable. Trump has been promulgating a “Make Venezuela Great Again” idea by having their vast oil reserves under the control of the US government as well as American oil companies who have had a rough ride with the country.
However, underneath the alleged benefits of having Venezuela sell their reserves exclusively to the US, there is a game of chess going on that needs to be pointed out—and applauded.
First, some background.
Warrior For American Independence—The Story Of “ATAYATAGHRONGHTA” (Colonel Joseph Louis Cook)
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- By W.H. Lamb
Who, you might reasonably ask, was “Atayataghronghta”? I had never heard that Native American name in my many years of historical reading and research centered around our Revolutionary War period, but I had once come across his English name a long time ago: Joseph Louis Cook (c. 1737-1814), also called Colonel Louis Cook in historical records. It wasn’t until I read his life story a few years ago in my wife’s D.A.R. magazine: American Spirit, November/December 2021 Issue (Vol. 155, #6), in an article by Amanda Taylor, titled, “Unwavering Dedication to the Cause”, that I was able to finally put his Indian and his English names together and discover a not unknown, but long underappreciated and almost forgotten, American patriot whose “dedication to the cause” of American liberty should be much better known.
Greenville County Citizens Academy: Building Informed Community Leaders
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- By Benton Blount - Chairman of Greenville County Council
I’m excited to share that applications are now open for the 2026 Citizens Academy, a program that has quickly become one of the most meaningful ways residents can gain a deeper understanding of how Greenville County Government works.
Launched two years ago in partnership with fellow council members and county staff, the Citizens Academy was created to pull back the curtain on county government, how decisions are made, how services are delivered, and how taxpayer dollars are managed. I’m proud to have been part of the effort to bring this program to life, and even more proud of the impact it’s already had.
Masters of Seduction, an Introduction
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- By Kathleen Marquardt - American Policy Center
For decades many of us have been trying to wake the public up to the machinations of a plethora of our leaders working toward a one-world order controlled by the rich and powerful, to be structured on Marxism/communism.
Understand that for many years, there were dedicated citizens who tried to expose the dangers of the push for communist/Marxist world control. Those on the side of free -market, laissez-faire capitalism, property rights, personal freedoms were ridiculed, blackmailed, and otherwise treated like scum of the earth – so no “civilized” person would be silly enough to believe in their foolish statements against the United Nations, the World Bank, or even Greenpeace. Face it, General McArthur, Joseph McCarthy, General Benton Partin, Paul Harvey were the kind of leaders our great forefathers had been who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. But these more recent were vilified and driven out of “the right” society.
Make-A-Wish South Carolina Honors Jeff Tallman for Nine Years of Dedicated Service
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- By Make-A-Wish South Carolina
Make-A-Wish South Carolina proudly recognizes Jeff Tallman for his extraordinary commitment and leadership as a board member, marking an unprecedented nine-year tenure from 2016 to 2025. During Jeff’s service, the chapter granted 1,780 life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses across the state.
Pastor’s Day at the Capitol Press Conference
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- By Press Release
Wednesday, January 14 - 11 a.m.
First Floor Lobby – South Carolina Capitol
COLUMBIA, S.C. (January 13, 2026) – A number of statewide religious organizations, including Palmetto Family Alliance, Faith Wins America, South Carolina Association of Christian Schools, as well as denominational and church leadership including SC Baptists and the Churches of God in South Carolina will take part in a “Pastor’s Day at the Capitol” press conference Wednesday, January 14, at 11 a.m. in the first floor lobby of the South Carolina State Capitol.
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