Tag Archives: South Carolina

SOUTH CAROLINA: Confederate Flag To Come Down After Lopsided House Vote

Via the Washington Post: The Confederate flag flying on South Carolina’s statehouse grounds is set to come down after the House voted 94-20 to remove it. The bill, passed early Thursday morning, now heads to Republican Gov. Nikki Haley’s desk and she is expected to sign it. After more than 13 hours of debate — which became increasingly contentious as …

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SOUTH CAROLINA: Senate Nixes Flag

Only three senators voted to keep the flag: The South Carolina Senate has voted to remove the Confederate flag from a pole on Statehouse grounds. The 37-3 vote Monday allows the state to remove the flag and the flagpole where it flies as soon as it passes the House and is signed by Gov. Nikki Haley. The bill must pass …

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SOUTH CAROLINA: GOP Rep Rants About “Abomination” Rainbow Flag During Debate On Confederate Flag Removal

Via Jezebel: The debate is airing live on C-SPAN, which is a great time for some states’ rights grandstanding by Republicans looking to win reelection bids. Republicans like State Senator Lee Bright, who is circulating a petition to keep the flag, writing on Facebook, “Right now, we have an opportunity to protect the symbol of our Southern heritage. The Confederate …

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Coulter Attacks SC Gov. Nikki Haley Over Confederate Flag: She’s An Immigrant

Via Mediaite: Ann Coulter has quite a knack for driving liberals crazy, but last night she made a comment that even has conservatives mind-boggled. On Fox Business Network, while talking with Kennedy about Charleston, Coulter brought up South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who announced she supports efforts to take down the Confederate flag at the state capitol, and said, “She …

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SOUTH CAROLINA: Gov. Nikki Haley To Call For Removal Of Confederate Battle Flag

The flag’s removal will require a two-thirds majority from the state legislature, where Republicans outnumber Democrats 106-64.

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Southern Baptist Leader Russell Moore: Take Down The Confederate Battle Flag

“The Confederate Battle Flag may mean many things, but with those things it represents a defiance against abolition and against civil rights. The symbol was used to enslave the little brothers and sisters of Jesus, to bomb little girls in church buildings, to terrorize preachers of the gospel and their families with burning crosses on front lawns by night. That …

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Charleston Mass Murderer Researched The Same White Supremacists Group Once Addressed By FRC President Tony Perkins

As I have mentioned here many times over the years, in 2001 then Louisiana state Rep. Tony Perkins addressed (photo above) the Council Of Conservative Citizens, an SPLC certified racist hate group with active chapters in more than a dozen states including South Carolina. Perkins’ speech to the CCC (formerly the White Citizens Council) came only five years after he …

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Mike Huckabee: If Only Somebody In That Church Had Been Carrying A Gun Too

Todd Starnes writes at Fox News: President Obama had a moment to bring healing to the nation, but he chose to play politics instead, using the terrible massacre in Charleston to call for a crackdown on guns. Everything with this administration is about politics. Everything. Gov. Mike Huckabee told me he was disappointed with President Obama’s “grandstanding.” “All the proposals …

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E.W. Jackson Blames Charleston Murders On Gays, Liberals, And President Obama

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Jon Stewart: I Can’t Joke About This

Jon Stewart opened his show last night with a somber, joke-free monologue about the mass murder in South Carolina. “Nine people were shot in a black church by a white guy who hated them who wanted to start some sort of civil war. The confederate flag flies over South Carolina. And the roads are named for confederate generals. And the …

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SOUTH CAROLINA: Confederate Flag Flies At Full-Staff Outside Capitol Building

Via NBC News: In solemn tribute to the nine people gunned down at a Charleston church, two flags atop the statehouse in Columbia, South Carolina, were lowered to half-staff on Thursday. They will stay there for nine days in honor of each victim. But in a bewildering display, a Confederate flag on statehouse grounds is still flying high. It wasn’t …

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SOUTH CAROLINA: Newspaper Apologizes For Gun Ad Next To Shooting Story

The Hill reports: Charleston’s Post and Courier apologized Thursday for publishing an ad for a local gun range next to a front-page story about a mass shooting in the city. “The front-page sticky note that was attached to some home delivery newspapers on the same day as this tragedy is a deeply regrettable coincidence,” the newspaper said in a statement, …

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Tweet Of The Day – E.W. Jackson

(Tipped by JMG reader Mark)

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Alveda King: South Carolina Murders Happened Because We Allow Abortion

“Dr.” Alveda King has had three abortions, so she totally knows what she talks about.

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Obama Speaks On South Carolina Murders, Denounces Easy Availability Of Guns

President Obama: “I’ve had to make statements like this too many times. Communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times. Once again, communities [were harmed] because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no problem getting their hands on a gun. Let’s be clear: at some point, we as a country will have to reckon …

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South Carolina Shooter Caught In NC

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SOUTH CAROLINA: Cops ID Shooter

Via Charleston’s NBC affiliate: The man accused of shooting and killing nine people in a downtown Charleston church on Wednesday night is from the Columbia area, according to law enforcement sources. Law enforcement is pursuing 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, of Eastover. An active manhunt is taking place in several locations in the Midlands. Public records show Roof was most recently …

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E.W. Jackson: South Carolina Shooting Might Be Part Of The War On Christians

But don’t jump to conclusions or anything. PREVIOUSLY ON JMG:  E.W. Jackson says Christians must be willing to die to stop gay marriage. E.W. Jackson says Christianity is the world’s only real religion. E.W. Jackson says using his own words against him violates the Constitution. E.W. Jackson launches petition to legalize anti-gay discrimination nationwide. E.W. Jackson says Satan supports the …

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SOUTH CAROLINA: Nine Dead In Hate Crime Shooting, Gunman Still At Large

CNN reports: A white man walked into a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, and opened fire during a Bible study class, killing nine people Wednesday evening. The suspect was still at large early Thursday morning. And the shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest AME church in the South, is being investigated as a hate …

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