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I�m going to do something I rarely do here on the blog. I�m going to talk about President Trump because he has been more incompetent and extreme in the past week than he has been throughout his presidency (that�s saying something). Just today, the President has created firestorms on Twitter by mocking Matt Lauer, the recently fired host of the �Today� show, and questioning when other journalists from the network will be fired for being �fake news.� A few hours later he retweeted multiple violent videos from a far right, anti-Muslim group in Britain. One video showed a person being thrown off of a roof by a crowd of Muslims. Another showed a Muslim destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary. These videos were all fake. But according to Press Secretary Sanders, �Whether it�s a real video, the threat is real,� in her defense of the President.             In other news, North Korea tested a missile yesterday capable of hitting the entire US...

Phil Noble is currently running for governor as a Democrat. He is a successful businessman and has been involved in the Democratic Party since he was a kid. Noble has helped create nonprofits such as the Palmetto Project and worked on the One Laptop Per Child initiative. I got a chance to meet with him on Saturday to discuss his policy, the race, and his past meetings with President Obama. You are a successful businessman. What caused you to leave that and run for governor? Well, I�ve been involved in politics in one way or another all my life. When I was a nine-year old kid and I was walking through my living room my dad said to me, �Boy come sit down and watch this.� And I watched the Kennedy-Nixon debate. And after it was over he said, �What do you think?�             And I said, �Well, I kind of like that Kennedy guy.�             So, he said, �Why don�t you go help him in h...

Representative James Smith is currently running for governor as a Democrat. He has served extensively in the Army National Guard including tours to Afghanistan and currently is a lawmaker in the South Carolina House of Representatives. I got a chance to speak to him on Saturday to discuss his policies and the gubernatorial race. You are in the State House right now. What caused you to run for governor and not seek reelection? Well you know, I felt like we needed some change in leadership in South Carolina that�s actually going to focus on getting things done. There were a number of things I really looked at and felt like we were falling short, in particularly working families in our state are finding it harder and harder to get by. So, I look to improve quality access to healthcare, which I know I can do immediately as governor by a South Carolina healthcare plan that�s going to cover hundreds of thousands of South Carolinians that are not covered today. It will also deliver 40,000 new...

Rep. James Smith (left) and Phil Noble (right) There is a lot of energy in the Democratic party right now. Inspired by the �dark days� as one speaker called it, a wave of momentum is building within the party following key victories in New Jersey and Virginia earlier this month. This wave of momentum has given the South Carolina Democratic Party a chance to overturn seats previously regarded as impossible to flip. Joe Cunningham One of those seats is currently held by Mark Sanford who is being challenged by Joe Cunningham, a young and energetic Democrat. I watched him speak in Charleston on Saturday along with other local Democrats at an event known as the Blue Jamboree. Cunningham established himself as the people�s candidate, making a point to come down from the stage and speak right in front of the audience of about 200 people. Joe Preston There were other notable speakers there, displaying the diversity within the party. Joe Preston, who is running for South Carolina�s House of Rep...

By a stroke of luck, it looks like I will be talking about Sean Hannity again tonight as he has continued to make the headlines with his whining and hypocrisy. I am especially joyous to be covering this man because after all, he is my favorite news anchor ever. I could not pass up the opportunity to talk about him again. This time Sean has ignited yet another controversy by calling for his followers to boycott Keurig, the coffee machine company. You may be wondering how this could happen and I did too when I first heard about it while watching the �Philip DeFranco Show� yesterday. These two entities, seemingly unrelated and uninterested in each other are now involved in a conflict with each other. What could have caused this drastic development between the two? Did Sean just snap because his coffee machine broke? Is Sean pedaling another conspiracy theory put forward by Alex Jones?             The answer is actually much more bizarr...

I listened to the �Sean Hannity Show� on my way home from school today. I do these things to myself not because I love listening to Sean Hannity's divine whining (he is my favorite news anchor by the way), but to get an idea and understand the other side of the political aisle. On most days when I subject myself to this audio torture, I might laugh or just shake my head. However, today was different.             Just to add to my suffering, Hannity decided to interview Newt Gingrich while I was listening because Gingrich is definitely somebody with a sound moral compass and deserves a platform. Anyways, the interview basically devolved into a pulpit for Newt Gingrich to defend the embattled Republican running for Congress in Alabama, Roy Moore. Moore has recently been accused of sexual harassment by five women. A former staffer for Moore also vouched for the women. I�m not going to go into the contents of those accusations, I am me...

A lot has happened this week. Shootings, elections, tax reform, name calling, and trips to Asia filled up the headlines and at first, I thought I would have an easy time picking a story, but as I started looking into each event I wasn�t feeling it. What happened in Sutherland Springs on Sunday was horrific, but I don�t want to go over something that I have talked about previously and just repeat the same argument again. My response to this attack is a phrase from a previous New York Daily News headline which reads, �GOD IS NOT FIXING THIS.�             And they are right. He�s not. We alone can fix it.             The elections last night were quite exciting for the Democrats as they did win big. But there�s only one takeaway that I got from last night: The Republicans are in deep trouble and the Democrats might retake the majority in the House and Senate next year. I can�t real...

The possibility of me applying to the College of Charleston died last night as I saw the photo of a student from the school dressing up as Freddie Gray and posing for photos with the caption, �ur going to jail tonight.� Freddie Gray was killed in police custody in Baltimore back in 2015 which sparked national outrage. President McConnell of the college would be wise to expel this student or he is going to receive a batch of angry emails from me. I hate this sort of insensitivity that mocks the suffering of people who have faced bitter evil and now have to endure the idiotic torment of a privileged white kid who does not know what empathy is or how to express it. Nobody would dress up as a victim of the Las Vegas shooting because it would be super offensive and disgusting. Dressing up as Freddie Gray is no different. I will be ripping up all of the letters and packets that the College of Charleston has sent me over the past few months and I would encourage my classmates to do the same. ...