David M. Rubin
IT TAKES THE WHOLE COUNTRY TO CREATE UVALDE
At 8:15 pm on May 24, about three hours after Salvador Ramos killed 21 people, including 19 children, inside a school building in Uvalde,...
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David M. Rubin
- May 13, 2022
- 4 min
GIL GATCH, PASTOR TURNED POL
MAY 13, 2022 DAVID M. RUBIN dmrubin@syr.edu The 94th Assembly District in the Summerville area was the launching pad for one of South...
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David M. Rubin
- May 5, 2022
- 4 min
FROM FIELD OF DREAMS TO FIELD OF SCHEMES
Is anyone surprised that our naive Governor Henry McMaster is just as dazzled by the glamour of the National Football League as the...
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David M. Rubin
- Apr 15, 2022
- 4 min
"BAD ROADS ROBBY: THE CULPABLE COMMISH"
One doesn't have to be a civil engineer to know how dangerous and aggravating South Carolina roads are. Rough pavement, potholes, poor...
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David M. Rubin
- Apr 1, 2022
- 4 min
AN APRIL FOOL'S ROUNDUP OF REPUBLICAN AFFRONTS (BUT IT'S NOT A JOKE)
When a politician responds to a journalist with the words "I didn't know until you told me," you can be sure it's a lie. A Kaiser Health...
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David M. Rubin
- Mar 23, 2022
- 4 min
THE PLIGHT OF UKRAINE AND THE CONTINUING SHAME OF REPUBLICANS
(On Saturday, March 19 I spoke at a meeting of the Dorchester Country Democratic Party. Congressman Jim Clyburn was in attendance. He...
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David M. Rubin
- Mar 14, 2022
- 4 min
REPUBLICANS TAKE AIM AT THE MORNING AFTER PILL
When the Supreme Court reverses Roe v, Wade later this spring, do not assume that anti-abortionists will declare victory and cease their...
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David M. Rubin
- Feb 24, 2022
- 4 min
REPRESENTATIVE LIN BENNETT: THE FULL TRUMP
Thanks to recent Republican gerrymandering, Democrats who have been moved into the re-drawn 114th Assembly District will come face to...
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David M. Rubin
- Feb 15, 2022
- 4 min
ULTIMATE FIGHTING COMES TO CHARLESTON
Representative Nancy Mace thought she was on a glide path to the Republican nomination to keep her seat in the House. Her election...
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David M. Rubin
- Feb 9, 2022
- 3 min
ROGER WICKER, THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SENATOR
Just to establish the bona fides of our subject, Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker was the ONLY member of the United States Senate to vote...
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David M. Rubin
- Feb 4, 2022
- 3 min
MCKISSICK EXPLAINS WHAT REPUBLICANS ARE FOR
Credit President Joe Biden for putting on the table the reasonable question: "What are Republicans for?" The chairman of the South...
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David M. Rubin
- Jan 26, 2022
- 4 min
REPUBLICANS TO ABSENTEE VOTERS: "DISAPPEAR!"
If Republicans had a time machine, they would take us back to Election Day in South Carolina in the 1950s, a Norman Rockwell experience. ...
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David M. Rubin
- Jan 19, 2022
- 4 min
ROLLING BACK FAIR ELECTIONS IN SOUTH CAROLINA
South Carolina has for the time being ceded the news spotlight on election "reform" to Texas, Georgia and a few other battleground states....
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David M. Rubin
- Dec 30, 2021
- 5 min
REPUBLICAN FOLLIES CLOSE OUT THE YEAR
It's a full-time job keeping up with the political stunts, absurd statements and insults to the intelligence of voters that come from our...
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David M. Rubin
- Dec 17, 2021
- 4 min
NO YELLOW BRICK ROAD IN SCOTT'S LAND OF OZ
Amid a blizzard of whoppers coming from Donald Trump, his oft-repeated claim that he did more for Black Americans than any President,...
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David M. Rubin
- Dec 11, 2021
- 4 min
TIM SCOTT'S WET KISS TO THE WEALTHY (PART 1)
When Senator Tim Scott goes before voters next November, he won't have many legislative accomplishments to sell. For a while it looked as...
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David M. Rubin
- Nov 22, 2021
- 3 min
DEMOCRATS TO REPUBLICANS: "NO MORE MR. NICE GUY"
In a recent Associated Press profile of Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison, reporter Steve Peoples wrote that Harrison...
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David M. Rubin
- Nov 9, 2021
- 4 min
"THE HIGH WIRE WALKER TAKES A TUMBLE"
For months Nancy Mace knew this day would come. Pleasing her Trumpaholic base and her Democratic constituents was always going to be a...
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David M. Rubin
- Nov 4, 2021
- 4 min
"TIM SCOTT: BIG PHARMA'S BEST FRIEND (BUT NOT YOURS)"
If one member of the United States Senate ought to be working night and day to lower the price of prescription drugs, it's Tim Scott....
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David M. Rubin
- Oct 20, 2021
- 3 min
NANCY MACE, FINANCIAL WIZ KID (NOT SO MUCH)
In her newsletter e-mailed to the community dated October 15, Rep. Nancy Mace led with this gem: "On Tuesday, I flew into Washington,...
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