Palmetto Examiner

     The South Carolina Legislator is working in a bipartisan manner to build a statue of civil war hero Robert Smalls who as a slave heisted a Confederate battleship, surrendered it to the Union, became a wartime advisor to President Abraham Lincoln, convinced Lincoln to allow former slaves to fight in the Union army, became the first African American to command a US Naval Vessel. Smalls then returns to South Carolina, founds the South Carolina Republican Party, wins a S.C. House seat, writes legislation to form the first public school system in America. Then wins a U.S. Congress seat despite campaigns of violence and corruption against him from white Democrats.      It's quite the story, but the media keeps leaving out the little detail that he founded the South Carolina Republican Party in 1868  and mentioning the railroading came from the Democrat Party. Strange...      And this is not the first time Robert Smalls has come up in the South Carolina news cycle. Here are stories f

    If you're still wearing a facial covering or mask because of COVID-19, you might be breaking state law.      South Carolina was among at least 18 states that adopted legislation between 1920 and 1950 outlawing face masks in public. The purpose of the laws were designed to prevent Klu Klux Klan members from hiding their identities with white hoods while terrorizing blacks.      The laws still remain on the books and during COVID-19 I posted on social media the contradiction of local ordinances to state law.      Several counties and municipalities passed ordinances that contradicted the state law, and SLED released a memorandum that the state law would not be enforced.      Now that the COVID-19 mandates have ended, it appears the law can be enforced again as one man has found out in North Charleston .           

 It's a restructuring and consolidation of power influenced by a globalist consulting group and a recipe for tyrannical disaster  Story By : Tony J. Spain March 15, 2024     Last month the South Carolina House of Representatives and the State Senate both past bills in their respective chambers to consolidate six health agencies into a single agency in an effort to restructure the health-related functions of state government and comply to a new law passed last year.      In May 2023, South Carolina lawmakers approved, and Governor Henry McMaste r signed into law S.399   --a law which abolishes the current maze of health care bureaucracies of the  S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control  (SCDHEC) and creates in its place a singular health care agency state Department of Public Health (SCDPH) separated from the environmental side creating a standalone environmental agency Department of Environmental Services (SCDES).      In theory, I support such a move, that would creat

          COLUMBIA, S.C. -- (PE) Some call it God's country, Bamberg, S.C., an old railroad town south of Orangeburg in the middle of farm country. Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley calls it "my hometown" as she likes to tell it, she grew up here in a town with "2,500 people, two spotlights and you couldn't think about doing something wrong without somebody telling your mom."      Haley's family owned a clothing store, Exotica, where almost all the girls bought their prom dresses there, including former classmate Sharon Carter, now chairwoman of Bamberg County's Republican Party.     But hometown roots aren't helping Haley. Bamberg is one of the few deep-blue counties in the state and the few Republicans here seem to prefer former president Donald Trump over her, Carter said. Even if they used to buy their prom dresses from her family.      New polling from Monmouth College released February 1 shows Haley's problems reach much farther than B

      COLUMBIA, S.C. -- (PE) Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley announced plans for a "Beast of the South" two-week bus tour with stops across South Carolina as she tries to ramp up voter turnout for the South Carolina Republican Primary that starts with early voting on Monday.      Haley's bust tour kicks off Saturday, with stops planned in rural Newberry, Greenwood, Lexington and Orangeburg counties this weekend, and visits are also planned for Bamberg, Clemson and Lexington, to mark the places where Haley grew up, attended college and raised her children.      Below is a breakdown of the "Beast of the South" bus tour:      Saturday, February 10, 11 a.m., Newberry Opera House, 1201 McKibben St, Newberry, SC 29108     Saturday, February 10, 2 p.m., Uptown Market, 220 Maxwell Ave, Greenwood, SC 29646     Saturday, February 10, 5:30 p.m., The Grove on Augusta, 3152 Augusta Hwy, Gilbert, SC 29054     Sunday, February 10, Orangeburg Bus Stop, Time and Location TBD. 

       COLUMBIA SC-- (PE)  Former President Donald Trump is coming back to South Carolina Saturday for a get-out-the-vote rally in Conway, S.C. ahead of early voting which starts Monday in the South Carolina Republican Primary.      The event will be held at the HTC Center at Coastal Carolina University with the doors opening at 11 a.m. and Trump scheduled to speak at 2 p.m. Follow the link to register and for ticket information to the rally.      The South Carolina First-in-the-South Republican Presidential Primary is Saturday, February 24, with early voting starting Monday, February 12.