- Greenville County GOP 1st Vice Chairman Joe Dill Honored by Local School Board
- American Legion Hears about US and China Relations
- Local Republican Leaders Seeking Advice from Democrats
- Timmons Expresses Support for DEI’s Doppelganger for Hiring Practices in Washington
- The Chairman of the Greenville County Republican Party & Co. Vs Republican Party Priorities
- A Puppet Master Entangles His Republican Puppets in Greenville County GOP
- Dale Arterburn for Greenville County Coroner
- The 1861 Cherokee Declaration of Independence
- Evert’s Electables - GOP Presidential Preference Primary - February 24, 2024
- Why is Greenville County Council Pickpocketing Us Again?
- Yemen and the Houthi Rebels
- America’s Existential Immigration Crisis
- Adam Morgan Pledges to Support Term Limits on Congress
- Reviewing the Immigration Disaster
- The Tucker Carlson Interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin
Socialism is the Most Important Issue in America Today!
- By John Porter - Harrison, Arkansas
I write about the evils of Socialism so much, I have been asked by many people around the country if I would write a definition of Socialism, its inherent evils and the effects it would have upon us as individuals. The following is my attempt at answering that request. For certain, it would be a death blow to capitalism as well as to the God-given freedoms which we have enjoyed for so long in the United States.
Our country’s economic system is called capitalism. It is based upon private ownership of property, which includes the means of production for the creation of goods or services for income and profit by individuals. It is a free market economic system based on the recognition of individual rights to own property (lands, businesses, goods, etc.). Such rights give individuals security and a means to control their own affairs, thus their own destiny. Under capitalism, private citizens, with their ownership of property, are responsible for the production and distribution of goods.
RAM Set for Free 2-day Clinic in Greer, S.C.
- By Remote Area Medical
Free dental, vision and medical services set for March 16-17
GREER, S.C. (MARCH 6, 2024) – Remote Area Medical – RAM® – a major nonprofit provider of pop-up clinics delivering free, quality dental, vision and medical care to those in need – will hold a free, two-day clinic on March 16-17. RAM will be set up at Greer High School, located at 3000 E. Gap Creek Road, Greer, SC 29651 for two days only.
All RAM services are free, and no ID is required. Free dental, vision and medical services will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. The patient parking lot will open no later than 11:59 p.m. (midnight) on Friday night, March 15, and remain open for the duration of the clinic. Once in the parking lot, additional information regarding clinic-opening processes and next steps will be provided. Clinic doors open at 6 a.m. Due to time constraints, patients should be prepared to choose between DENTAL and VISION services.
Congress Has Agreed on the first Six Permanent Appropriation Bills for Fiscal Year 2024
- By The John Birch Society
Congress has agreed on the first six permanent appropriations bills for fiscal 2024. These bills amount to 1,050 pages, $450 billion in spending, and would fund the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Affairs, Justice, Commerce, and Energy. These bills utterly fail to reduce spending, at a time when the national debt is rising by $1 trillion every 100 days. Furthermore, all of the departments listed above are unconstitutional, as is the vast majority of this spending.
Congress is Pick-Pocketing Americans
- By Eagle Forum
Congress can’t seem to shake its spending problem. On Wednesday, the House passed six out of twelve spending bills, packaged into one bill called a “minibus,” to the tune of over $450 billion. That is $70 billion over the caps established by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) earlier this year and $30 billion more than former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) 2023 levels. Keep in mind, the total national debt is $34.5 trillion and the federal deficit for this fiscal year is already $531 billion – meaning the government has already spent over half a trillion dollars more than they have brought in through taxes!
Reasons Abiogenesis cannot be Considered Science
- By Charles Creager, Jr.
This is not a statement against abiogenesis itself. It is not saying that it is impossible or even wrong. It is just that it cannot be considered scientific. The following articles are reasons why it cannot be considered a scientific concept. As a result, abiogenesis has no place in a public-school science class. Not because it runs afoul of any religious beliefs but simply because it does not qualify as science. This series will address 10 Pacific reasons for abiogenesis cannot be considered science.
The Future of Golf: Finding the Perfect Fit, Even for Imperfect Swings
- By Club Champion
Global fitting success, Club Champion, brings data to the game
Willowbrook, IL – Prior to the COVID pandemic, the “golf is dead” narrative had been prevalent for years. Participation, viewership, and sales of equipment — there was a perceived decline in every category. But recent trends and post-COVID success tell a different story for one golf industry player.
Club Champion, an internationally acclaimed custom golf club fitter, is not only surviving — they’re thriving. In 2015, the company had just eight locations. Today, there are more than 125 fitting studios across the globe, including a location in Asheville at 27 Schenk Parkway. In a world where brick and mortar retail models are crumbling, how are they scaling so successfully?
A New Fiscal Commission Must Heed the Lesson of '97
- By Veronique de Rugy
The Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee made news recently by announcing that if his party is serious about changing the fiscal path we are on, they'll have to consider raising taxes. Politics is about compromise, so the chairman is right. Every side must give a little. However, "putting taxes on the table" is not as simple a fix to our debt problems as some think.
Looking at recent Congressional Budget Office reports, one can have no doubts about the fiscal mess. Annual deficits of $2 trillion will soon be the norm. Interest payments on the debt will exceed both defense and Medicare spending this year and become the government's largest budget item. With no extra revenue available, the Treasury will have to borrow money to cover these expenses. Meanwhile, we're speeding toward a Social Security-and-Medicare fiscal cliff that we've known of for decades, and we'll reach it in only a few years.
Why is Greenville County Council Pickpocketing Us Again?
- By Michelle Shuman - Greenville County
That is the estimated multi-billion-dollar question that remains to be answered. For review our County Council has for many years budgeted approximately $12 million a year for the roads program. This is in addition to the public works and engineering departments. However, they have for years only been using a portion of that money each year for actual road repair. Instead, they take portions to pay down debt, buy equipment, and do other “road related” items. (At the March 4, 2024. Committee of the Whole meeting, Chairman Tripp once again tried to make everyone believe the County is spending the full $12 million on roads. Once again, he shows us he hasn’t read this year’s budget or any other budget. This year the amount is only $11 million, and they are only actually going to spend 55% of the $11 million on fixing roads.)
SC Freedom Caucus Townhall Meeting in Woodruff, SC
- By Press Release
The Freedom Caucus members of the South Carolina House will be having several upcoming “town hall” type meetings to let the people know what's going on in the legislature and to ask for citizen assistance in advancing bills. The first one will be hosted by Rep. Bill Chumley this Thursday, March 7, at 6 pm. The venue will be at 3501 Hwy 417, Woodruff, SC 29388. Please notify all your contacts and let others know.
Danger: The Proposed South Carolina "Health Czar" Legislation will be Hazardous to Your FREEDOM!
- By W.H. Lamb
WARNING: THE PROPOSED "HEALTH CZAR" LEGISLATION PENDING IN COLUMBIA WILL BE DANGEROUS NOT ONLY TO YOUR HEALTH, POTENTIALLY, BUT WILL BE VERY DANGEROUS TO YOUR CONTINUED FREEDOM TO CHOOSE YOUR OWN MEDICAL CARE AND ACT AS YOU THINK BEST FOR YOU!
Before reading my thoughts, please read the late and great patriot, Walter William's warning, below. It surely forces us to focus on the PENDING "reconciliation" of S 915 and H4927, which would establish a TRUE MEDICAL TYRANNY HERE IN S.C., and which would create a new 'EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HEALTH AND POLICY", which would be consolidated as the SOLE POWER over several presently existing agencies, that now are under the control of the S.C. Governor.
Insights into the Russian View of Russian History
- By Mike Scruggs
Tucker Carson’s Interview of Vladimir Putin - Part 2 of a Series
Commentary: Only 60 percent of the citizens of pre-2014 Ukraine consider Ukrainian their native language. About 25 percent are ethnic Russians, and another 15 percent are of mixed Russian-Ukrainian culture. Three of 27 Ukrainian oblasts are for political purposes 80 to 90 percent Russian: Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea/Sevastopol. Six more are 60 to 74 percent Russian. These are all connected in the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine and include two of Ukraine’s largest cities, Kharkiv and Odessa, and the entire Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. These have been culturally, ethnically, and linguistically Russian for centuries, yet all but Crimea/Sevastopol were arbitrarily made part of the Ukrainian SSR in 1922. Crimea/Sevastopol was in an arbitrary political deal given to Ukraine by Khrushchev in 1954. It is less than 15 percent Ukrainian and has never been more than 25 percent Ukrainian. It has crucial military and naval importance to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Following a bloody February 2014 presidential coup in Ukraine, backed by the U.S. State Department, CIA, and British MI6, the Russian ethnic minority was subjected to severe cultural and ethnic cleansing to erase Russian cultural and political influence in Ukraine. This caused a civil war that was still ongoing, when Putin decided to intervene against Ukrainian military actions against Donetsk and Lugansk militias and civilian centers. Moreover, Putin and almost all Russian Federation leaders, motivated by Russian national security concerns, strongly opposed Ukraine becoming a member of NATO.
Many County Magistrates Still on Bench Past their Terms
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
Dozens of county magistrates statewide continue to serve months or even years after their terms have expired – giving S.C. senators who control their nominations the power to fire them at any time.
As of last week, 71, or a nearly a quarter, of the 300 magistrates statewide identified on the S.C. Judicial Department’s website remained in “holdover status,” The Nerve found in a review of the most recently available holdover lists from the department and Governor’s Office, as well as Senate journals, which record official actions of senators while the 46-member chamber is in session.
CIVILIZATION’S INTERREGNUM – PART 10
- By W.H. Lamb
James Patterson’s Journal – The Story of the Congregation of Andria Church During the Dark Time (Patterson’s Tale #2)
“For the next 3 months or so, we concentrated on restoring the old house back to as close to its original condition as we could. We repaired the water damaged floors and window frames and sills. A carpenter in the village, whose name was Jozef, was sympathetic to the Jesus Sect and measured all the doors and windows, and along with his son, Justin, made us new ones and installed them, charging only 2 cows and 1 bull, plus a sow pig and 5 piglets. My uncle Trika, my father’s youngest brother, felt that this was too high a price to pay for the carpenter’s work and was just about to head off to his shop/home to threaten him when my Uncle Jorgan stopped him, reminding him that although the carpenter was a pagan, he and his son were trusted friends to the JS people, which in Andria village at that time meant a lot. Trika apologized to Uncle Jorgan for his hot temper.
The Transportation Highway to Dystopia
- By Kathleen Marquardt - American Policy Center
Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency allocated $3 million for Tennessee to develop its first-ever climate plan through a Climate Pollution Reduction Planning Grant, which was established by the Inflation Reduction Act. The plan is to be divided into two parts and done over four years: the Priority Climate Action Plan and the Comprehensive Climate Action Plan.
But this plan is not just for Tennessee, it is for every state. Multiple departments of the federal government have put this plan together, and they certainly aren’t about to write a different one for other states. Look into your local general plan, and you might just see these edicts spelled out there.
The Use and Misuse of History
- By Dr. Clyde Wilson - via Charleston Athenaeum Press
Google Epitomizes the Misuse of History, Suffers $90 Billion Stock Selloff Thanks to Its Woke Gemini AI
[Charleston Athenaeum Press' Publisher's Note, by Gene Kizer, Jr. - Google's Gemini accidentally pulled back the curtain and revealed a hideous, racist, grotesque Google standing there naked for all the world to laugh at and NOBODY to ever trust again.
Google and other cheats have interfered in elections by manipulating search results so Woke leftists get top billing while people with far more talent and honesty are never found.
Google has just confirmed that AI is nothing but a way to magnify leftist politics by a trillion and put it everywhere on the planet so truth can never be found. "Truth" is now what Google reveals in every search on everybody's computer from now to kingdom come.
Christian Worldview Week Set for March 4-6 at NGU
- By Billy Cannada - NGU
North Greenville University (NGU) will host Christian Worldview Week March 4-6, featuring talks from Dr. Katie McCoy and Jason Thacker on “Thinking Christianly about Human Nature.”
Christian Worldview Week has been a highlight at the University for nearly two decades.
“North Greenville always takes seriously the centrality of a biblical worldview in a Christ-first education,” said Dr. Nathan Finn, executive director for NGU’s Institute of Transformational Leadership. “Christian Worldview Week provides an opportunity each spring to invite our entire community to reflect on an important topic from the standpoint of Scripture and consider how it relates to us serving as transformational leaders for church and society.”
Alabama Embryo Ruling Trickles Up to Congress
- By Eagle Forum
Save the Baby Embryos!
A landmark Alabama Supreme Court ruling sent shockwaves throughout the nation on Friday. In a 7-2 decision, the justices ruled that embryos created through means like in-vitro fertilization (IVF) are “minor children” under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. This sent Democrats — and a few Republicans — into a tizzy trying to protect the IVF industry. However, the ruling has little to do with IVF and everything to do with the value of life.
Which is more believable, Genesis or the Big Bang Theory?
- By Charles Creager, Jr.
The one that you will find more believable between Genesis and the Big Bang Theory depends upon your philosophical starting assumptions. If you look at the evidence from a theistic creation perspective, you will find Genesis to be the most believable. If on the other hand you look at the evidence from an atheistic, naturalistic materialistic perspective, then you will be forced to accept the basic Big Bang to man story regardless of what the evidence actually is.
The State of Black Progress
- By Star Parker
As part of Black History Month 2024, my organization, CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, has announced the release of "The State of Black Progress," published by Encounter Books.
This is a follow-up to "The State of Black America," published by CURE in 2022.
The objective of these tomes is to showcase first-class scholarship to paint a comprehensive picture for thinking much differently about the reality facing Black Americans than what has been the norm for many years.
Big Hair and Eyelashes Cannot Turn a Man into a Woman
- By Kris Ullman - President of Eagle Forum
A principal in an Oklahoma City elementary school was recently forced out of his job because he performs Drag in his spare time. After Libs of Tik-Tok posted the story, Shane Murnan, who uses the stage name Shantel Mandalay, was asked to resign. Murnan claims he has been a female impersonator “for as long as he has been an educator, and his two careers had never been a concern for an employer before last year,” according to the Washington Post. The controversy has “created an environment of fear among teachers at school,” Murnan told the Post.
Michigan Takes a U-Turn Back to the Rust Belt
- By Stephen Moore
No state in modern times has transitioned from a worker freedom state to one that forces workers to join a union and pay dues to labor bosses. All the momentum across the country in the last two decades has been in the opposite direction: allowing workers the right to choose a union -- or not.
That's why what happened last week in Lansing, Michigan, is such a tragic setback for workers' rights and for the economic competitiveness of the state where Henry Ford rolled off the assembly lines the iconic Model T some 100 years ago.
Middle America Wakes up to the Left
- By Anne Schlafly
“Woke” is a shorthand expression that encompasses the radical ideas of the Democrat agenda: critical race theory, diversity-equity-inclusion, “trans” children, elective abortions up to the moment of birth, and the squelching of our speech and ideas.
Do not despair! Americans are not buying what the Democrat progressives are peddling. Americans want the cream to rise to the top and we celebrate true meritocracy. Their “diversity” is employment based on superficial characteristics, not merit. Their “equity” replaces opportunity with predetermined outcomes. Their “inclusion” eliminates rules and discipline. It is no accident that diversity-equity-inclusion is called DEI. DEI is the Latin word for God; those who promote DEI see themselves as godlike.
Stop Resolutions Making Application to Congress to call a [Constitutional] Convention for Proposing Amendments
- By The John Birch Society
Lawmakers across the country are being beguiled into introducing and passing resolutions making application to Congress to call a convention for proposing amendments to the Constitution, also known as a federal constitutional convention (Con-Con), Article V Convention, or a “convention of states” as some erroneously call it.
Given the current widespread lack of knowledge about the Constitution and understanding of the principles of liberty that undergird it, convening such a convention today is likely to result in far greater harm than any purported benefits — placing our entire U.S. Constitution and republican form of government at jeopardy. Rather than pushing resolutions that apply to Congress for an Article V Convention, state legislators should consider nullification to rein in federal overreach. To safeguard the Constitution, urge your state legislators to oppose all Article V constitutional convention resolutions.
The Evils of Socialism
- By John Porter - Harrison, Arkansas
I write about the evils of Socialism so much, that I have been asked by many people around the country if I would write a definition of Socialism, its inherent evils, and the effects it would have upon us as individuals. The following is my attempt at answering that request. For certain, it would be a death blow to capitalism as well as to the God-given freedoms that we have enjoyed for so long in the United States.
Our country’s economic system is called capitalism. It is based upon private ownership of property, which includes the means of production for the creation of goods or services for income and profit by individuals. It is a free market economic system based on the recognition of individual rights to own property (lands, businesses, goods, etc.). Such rights give individuals security and a means to control their own affairs and, thus their own destiny. Under capitalism, private citizens, with their ownership of property, are responsible for producing and distributing goods.
The Times Examiner Is Under Reconstruction - Bear with Us!
- By James Spurck, Publisher
Due to the recent popularity of The Times Examiner and its increase in readership (whether liked or disliked), it is time for an upgrade.
We are currently stripping down our Upstate, South Carolina Conservative news web portal so we can easily update our database and file system to a new upgraded system with new technologies. We also plan to update the design and layout to fit more modern digital mediums.
You may see hiccups while in the process and features removed to make the upgrade easier to maintain. Some of those features will come back when on the other side of the upgrade and update is complete.
Thank you for being so patient and hopefully this will be quick and easy.
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- CIVILIZATION’S INTERREGNUM - PART 9
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