Thursday Quick Read

U.S. NEWS & POLITICS Thursday, October 8th, 2009 The Palmetto Insider | Poll: How Big is South Carolina’s State Budget? Right Bias | Bill Ayers Claims He Wrote Obama’s “Dreams From My Father” FITSNews | A “True American?” Garnet Spy | Welcome To World War 3 S.C. NEWS & POLITICS Thursday, October 8th, 2009 The State | Sanford’s car pulled for speeding The Sun News | S.C. medical school loses 10,000 flu vaccine doses Aiken Standard | State news in brief for Oct. 8 P&C | Governor suspends supervisor charged by feds P&C | Thurmond to leave council seat The Herald | Sanford supports Norman, small business in Rock Hill Airs Today …Loading… Our exclusive 2010 candidate series begins with Alan Wilson [R] for Attorney General

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

WSJ | The Weak-Dollar Threat to Prosperity: Measured in euros, U.S. per capita GDP is down 25% since 2000

WSJ | It’ll Be Hard for GOP to Party Like It’s ’94

The Heritage Foundation | The Baucus Bait And Switch

WA Examiner | The best-case scenario for health care

American Thinker | America, You’ve Been Punk’d

WA Times | Hard-hit cities, states hire near-record lobbyists

Times Online | American troops in Afghanistan losing heart, say army chaplains

WA Examiner | Welcome to Joe Biden’s wildest dreams

Michelle Malkin | The government health care takeover tab: $829 billion/10 years…for starters

American Spectator | Losing It Over Scozzafava

Afternoon Newsletter

Updates from thestate.com

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• Radio host seeks pardon for executed SC ancestors

  Nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner is asking South Carolina to posthumously pardon two of his great-uncles – black landowners executed in 1915 after being convicted of murdering an elderly Confederate Army veteran.

• 4-year-old SC girl dies after choking on screw

  Authorities in South Carolina say a 4-year-old girl died after choking on a metal screw at her family’s home.

• Body recovered in Darlington boat wreck

  

  Updated 11:38 a.m.
  The body of a man who went missing after a boat wreck in Darlington County has been found and recovered.

• Wild flight offers preview of air show at McEntire

  

  Hanging out upside down over Lake Murray in the cockpit of a stunt plane, I could feel the weight of my entire body pressing into the safety harness. Inside: Video

• Sanford’s car pulled for speeding, but no ticket

  

  Updated 9:31 a.m.When a Highway Patrol trooper told a driver Tuesday that there was no good reason for him to blaze down a busy stretch of South Carolina interstate at 85 mph, he got a surprising reply: “Tell him that.”
  Watch the dash cam video
  More video: Sanford talks with Rock Hill editorial board

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