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Charlotte Lynch Retires
- By Bob Dill, Publisher
23 Years of Outstanding Service to Greenville County
Charlotte McHaffie Lynch has worked for Greenville County for 23 years. She began serving as Executive assistant to the Greenville County Administrator in 1992 and continued in that role for 20 years. In 1995, Charlotte began working as Executive Assistant to the Greenville County Legislative Delegation in addition to working for the County Administrator. For much of the next 18 years, she performed two full-time jobs.
After 23 years of service, Charlotte felt it was time for her to retire. It was a sad occasion when Sen. Mike Fair, Chairman of the Greenville County Legislative Delegation, announced her retirement saying: “Charlotte is a remarkable person, and we will miss her.”
Highway Interchange Named for Gospel Music Pioneer
- By Bob Dill, Publisher
Poe Mill Product Set Standard for Southern Gospel Music
The picturesque interchange of Highways 25 and 25 Bypass at the foot of Paris Mountain and the entrance to Travelers Rest that serves as the Gateway to the Blue Ridge Mountains ahead, has been dedicated to the memory of Southern Gospel Music Pioneer and Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame inductee Hovie Lister. Members of his immediate family attended the event at historic Reedy River Baptist Church, located near the interchange.
Hovie's friends, Retired Greenville County Sheriff and retired United States Marshall Johnny Mac Brown and Gospel Music Association Representative Charlie Waller, made presentations to Mrs. Lister and the family.
Political Correctness: The Enemy Within
- By Bob Dill, Publisher
Thomas Jefferson said, “Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.”
The first ten Amendments to the Constitution of the United States are called the “Bill of Rights.” the Tenth Amendment states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
John Breckinridge, who sponsored the Resolutions in the Kentucky House opposing the unconstitutional Alien and Sedition Acts, argued that when the federal government passed laws that extended beyond its constitutional powers, the people at the state level ought “to make a legislative declaration that, being unconstitutional, they are therefore void and of no effect.”
S. C. House Subcommittee Hostile to Obamacare Nullification
- By Bob Dill, Publisher
Lawmakers “Fear Federal Government” More than Constituents
Some 150 citizens from across the Palmetto State attended a hearing on House Bills H3101 and H3473 last Wednesday, February 6, 2013. The hearing was conducted by the House Constitutional Laws Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee.
H3101 is the Obamacare Nullification Bill introduced by Rep. Bill Chumley who represents District 35 in Spartanburg and Greenville Counties. H3473 is a watered down, weakened substitute introduced by Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Greg Delleney. Both Chumley and Delleney were elected as Republicans.
Jeff Farrington Named NGU Head Football Coach
- By Press Release
Jeff Farrington, who played football at Greer High School and lettered twice as a defensive back at the Citadel before graduating in 1982, has been named football coach at North Greenville University.
NGU President, Dr. James B. Epting, introduced the new coach and his wife Traci to the staff faculty and public Thursday, February 7, in the President’s Conference Room.
Why Medicaid Expansion is Wrong for South Carolina
- By Debbie Spaugh
Chairman Smith and members of the House Healthcare Budget Subcommittee:
I am Debbie Spaugh, President of the Greenville County Republican Women’s Club. Thank you for the opportunity to speak about your plans for the state’s healthcare budget. The Obamacare plan for giving more Americans access to health insurance coverage is through federal government-controlled insurance exchanges and expanding states’ Medicaid rolls. In South Carolina about 500,000 more people would be added to Medicaid. Why would South Carolina want to add a half-million people to a system that we cannot afford and does not work?
Obamacare: A Beehive of Stings You Weren’t Expecting
- By Elizabeth Lee Vliet
Many promises were made to different groups to sell the new healthcare law to a skeptical public. Having watched the medical insurance games–government and private–for my whole career, I thought these promises were too good to be true.
What is coming to light now is like “The Big Con” that Robert Redford’s character skillfully pulled off in the classic movie The Sting. Only the Pelosi-Reid-Obama trio forced through an even bigger “Sting” on the entire country, especially the very constituencies they promised their healthcare law would help.
Defense Cuts Will Cost American Lives
- By Bob Dill, Publisher
Viewers of C-SPAN saw the unbelievably naïve and incompetent testimony of the nominee for Secretary of Defense. He is the choice of the current Commander in Chief who is clearly determined to dismantle, demoralize and destroy out nation’s ability to conduct and win military engagements in the future.
If the American people and their elected representatives allow the planned cuts in the military to take place, it will certainly cost countless lives of American young people and, for the first time since 1865, possibly the death of thousands of innocent civilians at home.
Panetta’s Cowardly Decision
- By Phyllis Schlafly
In a newsworthy act of political cowardice, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ran through the Pentagon’s exit door as he announced he is striking down the 1994 Combat Exclusion Law. His timing means his successor, presumably Chuck Hagel, will inherit the task of defending the order to assign women to front-line military combat.
Of course, Panetta doesn’t want to be grilled about his order. It’s lacking in common sense and it is toadying to the feminist officers who yearn to be 3- and 4-star generals based on the feminist dogma of gender interchangeability and on their desire to force men into situations to be commanded by feminists.
Rep. Jeff Duncan: “I will Fight for Your Second Amendment rights”
- By Thomas C. Hanson
Third district Congressman Jeff Duncan conducted a Second Amendment Listening Tour, Friday, Feb. 1, at several locations in his district.
His first stop was at Allen Arms in Greenville. While there, Rep. Duncan said: “I will fight for your Second Amendment rights in the nation’s capital. I believe in a strict interpretation of the Second Amendment and that those rights to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. I am going to fight against Executive Orders that cross that separation of powers boundary.”
Gowdy Answers Constitutional Questions
- By James "Chip" Moore
When Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was asked if nullification of the Affordable Care Act was a waste of time, he said, “I think that every opportunity that you can take to remind the federal government that it is a limited powers government and it is limited to the enumerated powers, every opportunity that you have to remind us of that, is a point well taken.”
The Constitution Committee of Spartanburg County hosted Gowdy on Tuesday, January 29, in Sully’s banquet room at Riverfalls Plantation Golf Course for a panel discussion on the United States Constitution and the Rule of Law. The panel consisted of Dr. Christina Jeffrey from Wofford College, Bill Conley from Gaffney High School, and Paul Jansen the host of Let’s Talk Spartanburg.
Feinstein “Assault Weapons” Ban Would Effectively End Second Amendment
- By Bob Dill, Publisher
Storage, Safety Requirements will Render Firearms Virtually Useless for Personal Protection in Homes
After reading Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s so-called “Assault Weapons” ban bill, Sen. Rand Paul described it as a “radical scheme,” and the “effective end of the Second Amendment in America.
“The gun grabbers are going for broke, doing everything they can to ‘cash in’ on the recent tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. They’re targeting everything - - rifles. shotguns and even handguns – and every gun owner and gun purchase is to be catalogued and tracked by the federal government.”
Bob Jones University Announces Randy Page as Manager, Public Relations
- By Press Release
Bob Jones University announces the appointment of Randy Page as Manager, Public Relations, effective today, Jan. 30, 2013.
A 1990 BJU graduate, Randy comes to the University from South Carolinians for Responsible Government, a grassroots lobbying organization that works to give parents tuition tax credits for children in grades K-12, where he served as President for the last eight years. Randy has also served as Legislative Affairs Director for former Lieutenant Governor Bob Peeler, Chief of Staff for former Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer and as the Director of Public Events for former governor David Beasley.
Bipartisan Republican Suicide Proposal
- By Mike Scruggs
GOP Offered the Poisoned Chalice
A Bipartisan Gang of Eight in the U.S. Senate has teamed up to offer a Poisoned Chalice to nervous Republicans in the form of immigration “reform.” The four Republican senators are perennial immigration amnesty advocates John McCain (AZ) and Lindsey Graham (SC); Jeff Flake (AZ) whose career voting record on immigration issues is comparable to Graham’s; and hoped-to-be-conservative Marco Rubio, whose career voting record on immigration issues is only slightly less liberal than McCain’s. Many Republicans are taking this new amnesty proposal seriously because the Hispanic vote rose to over 10 percent of the electorate in the 2012 election and was even more Democratic than the usual two-to-one advantage over Republicans. The Hispanic share of the electoral vote is also likely to grow as a direct result of past amnesties and Federal Government failure to enforce immigration policies. The sales pitch to Republicans is that voting for this new amnesty will gain them more Hispanic votes. As with all the other amnesties (six) from 1987 to the Obama Administration, this one promises to be the last one necessary.
Color Barrier: Tragedy of the Ages
- By Bob Dill, Publisher
More than 90 percent of Americans who are descendants of former slaves voted for Barack Obama for president. Included are many individuals who pastor Christian Churches, individuals who oppose the slaughter of unborn children and others who strongly believe in the biblical definition of marriage. Above all, these Americans treasure and celebrate freedom and liberty, of which their ancestors were deprived. Why then would they vote to elect someone president of the United States who fanatically opposes everything they stand for and is systematically destroying the freedom, liberty and unlimited opportunities all Americans enjoy by ignoring the protections guaranteed by the Constitution?
Laurie Lee Speaks on Precinct Reorganization at Upstate Republican Women’s Club Meeting
- By Thomas C. Hanson
Laurie Lee, third vice chairman of the Greenville County Republican Party, spoke about precinct reorganization at the luncheon meeting of the Upstate Republican Women, Jan. 22.
Precinct reorganization is the process by which the Republican Party chooses executive committeemen, presidents and other precinct officers. A training session will take place March 11, and then the precincts will meet, in most cases, at their polling places, to select officers and submit any resolutions to be considered by the county GOP.
Taylor Announces County Committee Assignments
- By Bob Dill, Publisher
Greenville County Council Chairman Dr. Bob Taylor announced County Council standing committee assignments Monday. Taylor was elected chairman, replacing Butch Kirven, and Willis Meadows vice chairman at a meeting earlier this month.
As chairman, Taylor will automatically become chairman of the Committee of the Whole and Meadows, as vice chairman, will become chairman of the Finance Committee.
Politicians Out of Control
- By James "Chip" Moore
Highest Concentration of Power
“We have the highest degree of concentration of power and secrecy in the country. Nowhere else in the United States are politicians so out of control,” said Ashley Landess, President of the South Carolina Policy Center, while speaking at the Republican Women’s Luncheon, Thursday, January, 22.
The South Carolina Policy Center is a non-partisan public policy research organization located in Columbia, SC. One of the issues and concerns she spoke of during the luncheon was a policy that they discovered by accident pertaining to Bobby Harrell, SC’s Speaker of the House.
The Importance of One Vote
- By Bob Dill, Publisher
Runoff in District 17 House Race hangs on a Single Vote
Mike Burns and Chris Sullivan have learned the importance of just one vote in the recent Republican primary in House District 17. Had Burns received one more vote to add to his 1,117 vote count, he would have won the primary outright and there would have been no need for the expense and work involved in a runoff.
At 8:54 PM on January 22, Primary Day, the unofficial count by the Greenville County election office gave Burns 1,114 votes or 49.96 percent of the total 2,242 votes for 5 candidates.
There were 5 provisional ballots not counted until the vote was certified three days later. When the provisional ballots were counted, 3 had been cast for Burns and 2 for Sullivan.
The Best Way To Stop A Bad Guy With A Gun Is A Good Guy With A Gun
- By Allan E. Brown - Greenville, SC
During my 26 years as a police officer for the city of Greenville, I never considered the average citizen and his guns (military sty1e or otherwise) a threat to my safety. Thegreatest risk to police and the public is a changing demographic that reflects loss of traditional norms and standards, and a dysfunctional judiciary, including our U.S. Supreme Court that has made consistent, timely applications of the death penalty impossible.
The Children Protection Deception
- By Bob Dill, Publisher
An unbelievably large segment of the American population has been deceived into thinking that no protection is the best protection for children in public schools and on college campuses. These vulnerable children have become the easiest prey for crazed killers who want to kill as many people as possible before help arrives in the form of guns in the hands of police officers.
Many school districts in South Carolina have at least assigned one uniformed officer to some schools. This is recognition of a need, but grossly inadequate to deal with the potential threat. The School District of Greenville County is seeking ways of enhancing security. They clearly have a need for a select few trained and tested armed school employees, in the schools every day, their identity known only to the principal and law enforcement officials. The knowledge that they exist and their identity secret would be a great deterrent to those who would harm children while on school property and away from parental protection.
WORD Second Amendment Rally
- By Bob Dill, Publisher
WORD talk show hosts Bob McLain and Russ Cassell invited their listeners to join them at the Chick-fil-a on Woodruff Road last Friday at Noon to show their support for the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States that is under attack by the Obama Administration and their leftist supporters.
Hundreds of WORD listeners turned out and filled more than two blocks of sidewalks. They carried American flags and hastily made signs.
Obama Wants Background Checks on Private Gun Sales, Transfers
- By Bob Dill, Publisher
President Issued 23 Executive Orders restricting Rights of Gun Owners, Studying other Possible Restrictions
President Obama has instructed Democrats in Congress to take action immediately to enact legislation imposing tighter control on guns.
He has asked for laws requiring universal background checks on everyone attempting to buy a gun. The law already requires licensed dealers to request background checks. The Obama gun laws would require background checks before sales or trades could take place between individuals. The information would be used to store information in a national gun ownership database.
Watch D.O.G.S. Heroes of the Hallways
- By James "Chip" Moore
League academy first middle school to implement program
In 1998 on March 24, two boys met up in the woods outside their school in Jonesboro, Arkansas, after one pulled the fire alarm. Armed with thirteen fully loaded firearms, Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, opened fire on their classmates as they exited the building 100 yards away, killing five. Across the state in Springdale, Arkansas, two men feeling the impact of such a horrific event were compelled to do something to ensure that schools remain the safest place for children to be.
With the help of his friend, Jim Moore, founder of watch D.O.G.S (Dads of Great Students), started making steps in creating a volunteer program for dads to become more involved in day-to-day activities in the school. Watch D.O.G.S., a father-engagement and educational initiative of the National Center for Fathering, was designed to encourage fathers and father figures to be more involved in the educational process. The goals of the program are to enhance school safety and provide positive male role models.
Honoring Generals Lee and Jackson
- By Bob Dill, Publisher
“A Nation of Men of Lee’s Character Would be Unconquerable in Spirit and Soul” President Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Officers and Members of the 16th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Camp 36 in Greenville celebrated the birthdays of Generals Lee and Jackson at the Greenville Hilton, Saturday evening.
Robert E. Lee was born January 19, 1807, in Stratford Hall, Virginia.
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson was born January 21, 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia.
Despite the mendacity of those who continue to attempt to justify the atrocities committed against the Southern people by maligning Southern leaders, General Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson continue to be used by the top military schools throughout the world as the best examples of leadership and character in military history. Both were distinguished graduates of the U. S. Military Academy and officers in the United States Army. They were faced with a momentous decision when their sovereign state left the Union. They resigned their commissions to defend their homeland.
Abandoning “Peace through Strength”
- By Bob Dill, Publisher
The United States Government has kept its citizens safe and maintained a strong position among nations by adopting the slogan, “Peace through Strength.” The current White House occupant is abandoning that philosophy, either intentionally or through extraordinary incompetence. It is more likely a combination of both. We should expect nothing more or less from an individual who was indoctrinated by and is currently surrounded and advised by turncoats and terrorists of the Vietnam War Era.
Many misinformed and misguided voters have become addicted to the promises of agenda-driven politicians who pledged that savings from national defense cuts would be redistributed to social programs and benefits for the those becoming impatient waiting for their share of the loot.
Alabama Supreme Court Rules ‘Unborn’ is a ‘Child’
- By Bob Dill, Publisher
State Law Designed to Protect Children from Meth Lab Chemicals Applied to Unborn
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that a state law intended to prevent exposing children to dangerous chemicals also protects the unborn child. The Alabama State law was originally intended to prevent parents from operating meth labs around children, or allowing children to be in meth labs. The law makes no reference to the unborn.
The decision in Ankrom V. State upheld the conviction of two women who were prosecuted for using drugs during their pregnancies.
The court ruling stated that, “the plain meaning of the word ‘child’ in the chemical endangerment statute includes unborn children.”
Hobby Lobby Gets Crafty with Insurance Timeline
- By Tony Perkins
By Tony Perkins, Family Research Council
Hobby Lobby may have a reason to celebrate Religious Freedom Day after all. The mega-craft retailer announced last week that the owners have found a way for the company to bypass the $14.3 million in fines it would have already racked up. The penalty for not providing abortion drugs to employees under the President's health care mandate was supposed to go into effect January 1, but, thanks to a loophole, The Becket Fund believes that Hobby Lobby may be able to postpone the pain. "Hobby Lobby discovered a way to shift the plan year for its employee health insurance, thus postponing the effective date of the mandate for several months," the Fund explained.
Hundreds Rally for Nullification
- By James "Chip" Moore
At the foot of the steps leading up to the State House, in front of an overlooking statue of President George Washington, gathered hundreds of people for one common goal. Preceding a press conference that was to take place in the Rotunda of the State House concerned citizens with signs, flags, and a uniting cause listened as their state representatives rallied the crowd against Obamacare.
On Tuesday January 8, 2012 a Nullify Obamacare Rally and Press Conference was held in the capital. Speakers included Thomas Kindle, President elect of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, House members Bill Chumley (D35), Tom Corbin (D17), Bill Taylor (D86), Donna Woods (D37), Mac Toole (D88), and Senators Lee Bright (D12) and Tom Davis (D46). RINO hunt founder Harry Kibler was the Master of Ceremonies.
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