The Very Senior Senator From South CarolinaGeorge F. Will
aTHERE has not been a fist-fight on the Senate floor since 1902, when the one-eyed white supremacist Benjamin Tillman (known as “Pitchfork Ben” after a threat he once made involving Grover Cleveland’s backside) took a swing at his fellow senator from South Carolina, John McLaurin. 没...
Two young men from antebellum South Carolina's ruling elite share "extravagant delight" In 1826, twenty-two-year-old Jeffrey Withers, later a judge in the South Carolina Court of Appeals and a delegate to the conferences that established a provisional government for the Confederacy, wrote two ...
A fighter who doesn’t back down from a challenge. A conservative who gets things done. A leader who puts our country above all. In the United States Senate, South Carolina's Lindsey Graham has earned a reputation as a conservative, a problem-solver, and a leader who gets things done. ...
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There were numerous fireworks during the hearing, including when Senator Tim Scott, a Black Republican Senator from South Carolina, grilled Yellen on her abortion position, asking: “Did you say that ending the life of a child is good for ...
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who was close with both Lieberman and McCain, said he would share more thoughts about his friend soon, and had learned of his death as he was leaving Israel. "The good news, he is in the hands of the loving God. The bad news, John ...
Carr “explained the statue’s relationship to North Carolina’s racial politics and, in doing so, distinguished it from the tablets in Memorial Hall and similar expressions of mourning for the Confederate dead.” “Carr noted that the monument honored not only alumni who died for the Confederacy...
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina also responded to McSally's story. "I just saw the headline, I know that had to be tough and I hope that it helps other people," he told reporters on Capitol Hill. McSally retired as a full colonel in the ...
Other vice presidential contenders, including Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky and Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, have made their reputations by winning over Republican voters. Two other governors in the mix, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, hail f...