- Evert’s Electables
- How to Save the USA
- Football Player Exposes Diabolical Lies of Feminism
- Our Beloved Republic is in Danger of Becoming a Socialist Country
- A Layman's Awe in the Revelation of Jesus Christ
- Memorial Day - Including the Remembrance the USS Mount Hood
- American Lawfare in New York
- Timmons's Condescending Remarks of a Children's Christian Ministry
- There Is An Operational And Management Concern About Greenville Coroner’s Office
- Are SC State Legislators Spying on Its Citizens?
- Audacy Announces All-Star Lineup on 98.9 WORD
- Evert’s Electables Republican Primary - June 11, 2024
- County Council Candidate’s Shady Practices and Dark Money Ties
- Evert’s Electables - June 25th, 2024 Republican Primary Runoff
- The Times Examiner Endorses Steve Shaw for Greenville County Council
Some 40 Years Later: A Nation STILL at Risk
- By Stephen Moore
School's out for the summer, so now it is time to examine the state of our education system.
By any objective measure, our school performance is fair or poor for most children. Math scores hit a 20-year low. ACT scores dropped to a 30-year low last year. In dozens of schools throughout the country, not one child is reading or practicing math at grade-level proficiency. Not one!
Some of this poor performance is due to the unforgivable mistake of shutting down our schools during COVID-19 -- despite children being less vulnerable to the virus.
You Had My Trust… and You Blew It
- By FLCCC Alliance & Jenna McCarthy
COVID was little more than a big, fat, criminal test of human conformity, gullibility, and susceptibility.
If you haven’t yet realized that COVID was little more than a big, fat, criminal test of human conformity, gullibility, and susceptibility–, no offense but* you might want to schedule an EEG to make sure your cerebral cylinders are actually still firing.
*Don’t you love no offense but? It’s the Ricky Gervais of phrases; basically the equivalent of broadcasting, “Buckle up because I’m one hundred percent about to offend you.” If you have kids, you’re likely familiar with this popular insult set-up. “No offense Mom, but your breath smells like dog poo.” Thanks, kid! Brutal honesty is always the best policy!
Will people stay home just because we tell them to? Will they wrap their faces in scraps of useless, porous, filthy fabric, stand obediently on arbitrarily-spaced floor stickers, play follow-the-arrows in grocery stores, eagerly agree to not gather with their friends and families for holidays and birthdays and weddings and funerals, and believe us that a parade of newer, pricier, nearly-identical versions of cheap, time-tested generic medicines are in fact superior? Will they inject untested, unproven, mystery elixirs into their bodies, over and over and sometimes over again, on command and in exchange for a donut or some curly fries? Most importantly of all, will they vehemently defend all of these asinine activities when their free-thinking friends call them cuckoo for complying?
The Voice of the Martyrs Recognizes Christians Persecuted by ISIS on Day of the Christian Martyr 2024
- By Voice of the Martyrs
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. -- Christians around the world will observe Day of the Christian Martyr on June 29, 2024, which according to church tradition, marks the anniversary of the Apostle Paul’s beheading in Rome.
In advance of Day of the Christian Martyr, The Voice of the Martyrs released strategic prayer resources and a video highlighting Christians martyred by ISIS in Northern Iraq and Syria.
You can watch VOM’s 2024 Day of the Christian Martyr video at vom.org/martyr.
“This year, instead of focusing on one person, VOM is focusing on an entire group: Christians who lost their lives in Northern Iraq and Syria as members of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS) swept across that region ten years ago this month,” said Todd Nettleton, VOM vice president and spokesperson.
Are SC State Legislators Spying on Its Citizens?
- By James Spurck, Publisher
SC Rep. Jason Elliott Hired Private Investigator Phil Carter, Who Had a GPS Tracker Placed on Opponent’s Truck Without His Knowledge
The Post and Courier has brought to light a contentious issue here in South Carolina, reporting that State Rep. Jason Elliott and his associates have allegedly hired a private investigator to conduct surveillance on his District 6 opponent, Ben Carper, in an Upstate South Carolina state senatorial primary election runoff.
The article states that Elliott's team provided The Post and Courier documents alleging that Carper had illegally changed his driver’s license address and registered to vote at a rental property he owns inside District 6 despite living at another home in District 7.
Elliot’s attorney, Sloan Ellis, accused Carper of committing “voter fraud” and requested 13th Circuit Solicitor Walt Wilkins to investigate whether Carper committed a crime. It is yet to be determined if the Solicitor’s office has started any investigation at this time.
Carper vehemently denies any wrongdoing or illegal activity. In an interview with The Times Examiner, he clarified that his mother is the owner of the property in question and that he has claimed residence there for four years, with multiple vehicles registered at that address. He also stated that he receives mail at this location.
Timmons's Condescending Remarks of a Children's Christian Ministry
- By James Spurck, Publisher - Opinion
It’s Time to Send Patch the Pirate’s Commodore, the Jolly Roger, and its Crew to Washington, DC.
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In 1976, a 9-year-old boy and his 7-year-old sister, their future uncertain, were placed in a Greenville, South Carolina children’s home, a ministry of Tabernacle Baptist Church on White Horse Road in Greenville, SC.
He and his sister were thrown into a world different from the one they knew in the Washington, DC area where they lived. They came to a place with unfamiliar beliefs in a man they knew nothing about, Jesus. It wasn't until a few weeks after his arrival at the children’s home that he first heard a clear presentation of this man and his story, Jesus.
It all began when a girl not much older than him approached and asked if he had ever been saved. The boy, completely clueless, asked if she was referring to him falling off a nearby building and being saved by her catching him. She laughed in wonder at how a young boy knew nothing about children their age needing a Savior.
At that moment, it was the first time I had ever heard the Gospel of the Lord Jesus. God used a 12-year-old girl to tell me, a 9-year-old boy, how the heavenly Father can comfort a boy with no father.
Evert’s Electables
- By Evert Headley
Republican Primary - June 11, 2024
PLEASE NOTE—IMPORTANT DETAIL: do not take this flier to the polls. By law, you may take only a list of names and offices to the polling site.
- For candidates already in an office, I have been able to check voting records. My comments reflect their voting records over the course of their tenure.
- For those who have never run for office before and who claim a position, I will state their claim, but understand I have no way to verify that claim.
- The polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in South Carolina, and a photo ID is required to vote.
This year, there is one important dynamic: the SC House GOP Leadership has decided to coordinate with the Chamber of Commerce and a few consultants to coordinate a campaign against the Freedom Caucus members across the state. They are using language and tactics that conservatives have thrown at them for years; it's just that they have always been from the Democrats and the liberals. Example: Extremist, racist, bigot, etc. Now, the GOP leadership is using the same tactics and some of the verbiage of the liberals and twisting the meaning of votes in the House to an extreme, where the truth will not be found. The establishment has decided to get rid of the Freedom Caucus any way they can, by hook or crook.
John Winthrop’s Great Hope, Exhortation, and Warning
- By Mike Scruggs
Will America Be a Light to the World or a Byword for Ungodly Folly?
![John Winthrop](/images/18-08/John-Winthrop.jpg)
On March 21, 1630, at Holyrood Church in Southampton, England, Puritan leader and later Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop, gave a warning sermon to his fellow Puritans about to depart to Boston on the Arabela. Near the end of his sermon, he used the example of a “City on a Hill,” referring to Matthew 5:14, “You are the light of the world, a city built on a hill cannot be hidden.” Winthrop was not an ordained minister; he was a lawyer, and his sermon was organized with a train of logic typical of English lawyers. But this train of logic was based on the solid truths of Scripture. His principal theme was love and the duty of godly love for one another with a pure heart and selfless fervor. In fact, his sermon was entitled, A Model of Christian Charity [Love], and his hope was that the Puritan community in Boston would become a model of Christian love, being a light and example to the world. Few if any in this party of persecuted Puritans had any ambition for New England or the American Colonies to become a great, wealthy, or politically or militarily powerful nation. Their hope was simply to live in peace and brotherly love and by their example become a beacon of divine truth and unselfish charity to the nations and their own posterity.
FREEDOM’S LAST BEST HOPE
- By W.H. Lamb
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The first two lines of James Lowell’s (1819-1891) epic 1845 poem, “The Present Crisis”, remind us that: “When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth’s aching breast, Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west.”
Various people throughout the world may have a different perception of “freedom” -- i.e. what it means to them--how they define it. The Oxford Dictionary lists what I consider to be pertinent definitions:
- The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants;
- The absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government;
- The power of self-determination attributed to the will; the quality of being independent of fate or necessity.
Bigoted Attack on Caitlin Clark
- By Bill Donohue - President, Catholic League
Caitlin Clark has done more for women's basketball than any other person. One would think that the superstar, who excelled at the University of Iowa and was the number-one draft pick in the Women's National Basketball Association (she plays for the Indiana Fever) would be treated with applause by fellow players, the media and pundits. While many have lauded her, she has been savaged by others. The stench of bigotry is in the air.
Clark is a white heterosexual Irish Catholic with a boyfriend. That is hardly exceptional, but unfortunately for her, that matters to some of her critics. [Note: All of the persons cited are black, with the exception of Clay Travis.]
Clark's Catholic faith is important to her. In 2018, she gave an interview to the Des Moines Register about her time at Dowling Catholic High School. "We get to live our faith every day. Dowling starts every day with prayer and ends every day with prayer. This is a big reason why Dowling has such a special culture and is such a special place to go to school."
The Second Great Colorado Land Grab
- By Kathleen Marquardt - American Policy Center
Right now, there is a battle going on in Colorado. One side wants President Biden to use the 1906 Antiquities Act to designate over 400,000 acres of land in Mesa and Montrose Counties as a national monument. This would, among other things, limit future oil and gas leases, mining claims, rights-of-way, and utility infrastructure. Mining, ranching, and farming are the mainstay of the economy there. Opponents contend, not without cause, that the designation would “…end uranium mining … and put restrictions on hunting and cattle grazing and limit motorized travel”.
The locals, mainly comprised of locals who are justifiably upset that “the proposal does not require local support to pass”, and that much of land in Colorado (like a number of Western states) has been taken from private use via conservation easements, heritage sites, and other public/private partnership shenanigans.
The Use of Evolutionary Propaganda
- By Charles Creager, Jr.
Despite being claimed as science, there is a lot of propaganda used in pushing the Big Band to man evolutionary view of origins. This can include making evidence look better than it really is, making evidence look more favorable to evolutionary models than it really is, applying labels that are more favorable to evolutionary models, is the tendency to not include evidence contrary to evolutionary models.
A good example of making evidence look better than it really is Piltdown man and Nebraska man, the fact that they were both eventually proven false shows neither one was sufficient to justify the claims made about them. Piltdown man was a skullcap and partial jawbone that could not even be demonstrated to belong to the same individual let alone the way they were depicted. It was even worse for Nebraska, which was based solely on a tooth that turned out to belong to an extinct pig. The problem is that they still do this kind of stuff today such that with most so-called transitional forms with so-called transitional parts often among what is missing. Tiktaalik is another good example because likewise, large portions of it are missing. This is quite common among so-called transitional forms. They tend to be fragmented, but evolutionary propaganda tends to ignore this.
Children of the Confederacy® Placing Crosses on Confederate Graves
- By Henry Timrod 654, Children of the Confederacy
Henry Timrod 654 Children of the Confederacy® participated in a ceremony at Nazareth Presbyterian Church in Spartanburg, SC, on Sunday, June 2, 2024. Twenty-six Confederate Iron Crosses were placed on Confederate graves in this historic cemetery. The children participated in music, prayers, pledges, chimes, and the unveiling of the crosses. It was a beautiful ceremony that honored these men who fought for our freedom.
Biden Housing Scheme Could Ignite Another 2008 Mortgage Crisis
- By Stephen Moore
Politicians in Washington have very short memories, so they repeat the same mistakes over and over.
It was only 17 years ago that the "subprime" mortgage crisis torpedoed the economy and sent the financial markets into the biggest tailspin since the Great Depression. Millions of Americans lost their jobs. One of the matches that lit that bonfire was Freddie Mac and its cousin, Fannie Mae, offering generous, taxpayer-guaranteed mortgage insurance to risky borrowers on loans with low down payments.
It all blew up in the faces of the taxpayers even though the Washington experts said the chances of these mortgages going bust and taxpayers taking a loss was less than one in a thousand.
U.S. Senator Mike Lee Endorses Adam Morgan For Congress
- By Press Release
U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) today announced his endorsement of State Representative and Republican congressional candidate Adam Morgan for South Carolina’s Fourth Congressional District.
“Adam Morgan is a proven conservative fighter who has led the liberty movement in South Carolina as the outstanding chairman of the South Carolina Freedom Caucus,” said Lee. “He’s fought to defend the border, lower taxes, and fight the woke Left at every turn. He has my full endorsement in his race for Congress.”
Evert’s Electables Republican Primary - June 11, 2024
- By Evert Headley
US 3rd Congressional District
PLEASE NOTE—IMPORTANT DETAIL: do not take this flier to the polls. By law, you may take only a list of names and offices to the polling site.
- For candidates already in an office, I have been able to check voting records. My comments reflect their voting records over the course of their tenure.
- For those who have never run for office before, and who claim a position, I will state their claim, but understand I have nothing by which to verify that claim.
- Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. A photo ID is required to vote in South Carolina.
This year there is one important dynamic going on—the SC House GOP Leadership has decided to coordinate with the Chamber of Commerce and a few consultants to have a coordinated campaign against Freedom Caucus members across the state. They are using language and tactics conservatives have had thrown at them for years, it’s just that had always been from the Democrats and the liberals. Examples: extremist, racist, bigot, etc. Now the GOP leadership is using the same tactics and some of the verbiage of the liberals and twisting the meaning of votes in the House to an extreme, where the truth will not be found. The establishment has decided to get rid of the Freedom Caucus any way they can, by hook or crook. It is now known the the GOP House Caucus is openly funding challengers in most if not all of the Freedom Caucus elected Republicans in the state, including a donation by the House GOP Caucus to the challengers to the tune of $4,500. Understand this is not because they disrespect those members, they do, but they do not respect or appreciate you the voters who are sending those members to the House, they want them obeying them the leaders, not you the constituents.
Major Sports Leagues Dump Pride, as Biden Fights to Fill the Void
- By Suzanne Bowdey - The Washington Stand
While pro sports scales back its usual Pride celebrations, Joe Biden is swinging for the rainbow fences. Despite the subdued approach to June everywhere else, this White House seems intent on bombarding Americans with LGBT messaging from every federal platform. It’s quite a contrast to the rest of the cultural landscape, where not just major brands but major leagues are making the conscious decision to sit this month out, desperate to protect their profits from the consumer outrage that’s burned down brands like Bud Light and Target. But then, this president doesn’t have to worry about the financial impact of his extremism — because it’s not his money he’s using, it’s yours.
Texas Supreme Court Upholds Texas Law Protecting Unborn Babies from Elective Abortion
- By Texas Alliance for Life
Emphasizes the Availability of the Medical Necessity Exception to Save Women's Lives or Physical Health
AUSTIN, Texas -- On Friday, the Supreme Court of Texas issued a ruling in Zurawski v. Texas (23-0629)a challenge brought by the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) against Texas' laws protecting unborn babies from elective abortion.
The Court unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the Human Life Protection Act, the 2021 law that protects unborn babies from abortion beginning at conception, while affirming the availability and clarity of the medical necessity exception to allow doctors to perform abortion "to save the woman's life or major bodily function, in the exercise of reasonable medical judgment and with the woman's informed consent" according to their "reasonable medical judgment." The Court clarified that a woman's death does not have to be imminent for the exception to apply.
Why Is the United States Negotiating With Terrorists?
- By Star Parker
A Gallup poll of several months ago asked, "On the whole, would you say that you are satisfied or dissatisfied with the position of the United States in the world today?"
Only one-third, 33%, said they were satisfied. This down from 53% in February 2020 at the conclusion of Donald Trump's presidency.
It's a wonder that even a third of Americans are comfortable with President Joe Biden's disastrous leadership. Many scholars now liken the world today to the 1930s, the years preceding World War II.
Russia Is Flashing Red, the West Better Pay Attention
- By Mike Scruggs
The above video is a serious 12-minute message from former CIA/State Department officer Larry Johnson regarding the danger of a head-on, possibly nuclear confrontation between Russia and the United States. This is due to an ill-advised statement of escalation by the Biden Administration, allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles against targets deep in Russia, including key missile defense radar important to Russian nuclear defense. The Ukrainian Army has lost over half a million men and is near collapse. This makes them desperate and willing to drag the US into catastrophic war to save themselves. The Biden Administration is evidently willing to escalate the war and threaten Russia to save face for its appallingly disastrous policy of using Ukraine as cannon fodder to seriously injure or even break up the Russian Federation.
Job Openings Fall to Lowest Since 2021
- By Bob Adelmann - The New American
As the U.S. economy continues to slow, job openings are declining. They peaked at more than 12 million in March 2022. Today the Labor Department reported just eight million openings in April, the lowest number since February 2021.
The U.S. economy has been generating about 234,000 new jobs a month over the last year. The upcoming report due Friday from the Labor Department is hoping to see 190,000 new jobs created in April.
That could be a big miss. The third quarter of 2023 showed the economy growing at an annual rate of five percent. The fourth quarter showed the economy slowing, to a 3.4 percent annual rate.
The first quarter’s initial estimate showed GDP growth of just 1.6 percent, and the final number was just lowered to 1.3 percent. The early estimate for April shows a further decline to 0.2 percent. Adjusted for Bidenflation, GDP went negative in April.
American Lawfare in New York
- By Terry Payne - Marble, NC
A Shameful Verdict
A May 30th, 2024, Manhattan New York City jury, comprised of democrats, under the direction and persuasion of a highly conflicted and corrupt democrat donor judge found Trump to be guilty of 34 wrong accounting entries - nothing else. That finding will not be overturned during appeals. The issue is the severity of the crime by those accounting errors and if those accounting errors were beyond the statute of limitations.
Judge Juan Merchan allowed a George Soros funded District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, to upgrade 34 misdemeanors to felonies by using a federal law that allows misdemeanors to be upgraded to felonies if those misdemeanors sustained the perpetrator in committing some other felony.
Hey Joe: Where Are All the EV Charging Stations?
- By Stephen Moore
The Biden administration has spent tens of billions of dollars on green energy, yet last year the U.S. and the world used record amounts of fossil fuels.
That would seem to be prima facie evidence that this "great transition" to renewable energy has so far been an expensive policy belly flop.
The evidence is everywhere. Americans aren't buying electric vehicles any more than they were before President Joe Biden was elected. Even with record federal subsidies, car companies are losing billions of dollars making EVs that people don't want. Wind and solar still account for less than 10% of American energy, and across the country hundreds of communities are saying "not in my backyard" to ugly, spacious solar and wind farms. And of course, electric bills and gas prices at the pump are 30% to 50% higher, even though we were promised the green revolution would save us money.
Governor's Secret Task Force Still Mum on Mystery $1.8B
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
A task force created by Gov. Henry McMaster to investigate a mysterious $1.8 billion that reportedly is in a state account has met secretly at least six times in less than two months but hasn’t yet publicly released any specific findings.
As The Nerve revealed last month, the “working group” that met behind closed doors three times in April included the following agency heads who attended most or all of the meetings either in person or virtually: S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis, state Comptroller General Brian Gaines, state Auditor George Kennedy and S.C. Department of Administration Executive Director Marcia Adams, according to meeting notes released by the Department of Administration under the state’s open-records law.
Johnson: Dems ‘Pushed the Pendulum Too Far’ with Trump, It’s ‘Backfiring’
- By Suzanne Bowdey - The Washington Stand
Washington, D.C. has been unusually drama-free with Congress scattered for the Memorial Day break. Of course, New York was more than happy to pick up the slack with its sham trial against former President Donald Trump — a prosecution, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) warned Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, that’s put our entire country at “a crisis point.”
The Republican leader, like so many conservatives, has watched the proceedings with alarm, understanding all too well the political volatility that might result. “I’m hearing a lot of frustration, and I’m hearing dismay,” Johnson said on “This Week on the Hill.” “You know, people are losing faith in our institutions across the board,” he warned, “… not the least of which is our system of justice.” Frankly, the speaker pointed out, this whole charade “is a serious threat to a constitutional republic. ... And I think we’re at a crisis point, because people see what is happening here.”
- Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: How Sustainable Rule Took Over Your City
- The Times Examiner Endorses Garey Collins for Greenville County Council
- The Times Examiner Endorses Kelly Long for Greenville County Council
- The Times Examiner Endorses Curt McGahhey for Greenville County Council
- Judicial and Prosecutorial Tyranny
- September 7, 1774
- Do Creationists Engage in Real Science?
- Robert De Niro is Not Helping
- The Times Examiner Endorses Bill Chumley for SC State House District 35
- The Times Examiner Endorses Stephen Frank for SC State House District 20
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