Jim DeMint News

Some states are fighting to bring Gitmo detainees to their backyards for money and jobs, but is South Carolina one of them? Al Queda sleeper agent Ali al-Marri spent six years in Hanahan's naval brig.

Today, two months after refusing to tell New Hampshire voter if her ideology was closer to Maine Senator Olympia Snowe or extreme right-wing South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, we finally have the answer - Ayotte would be a DeMint Republican.

Sen. Jim DeMint has emerged as the leading benefactor for any Republican who wants to challenge the establishment candidates backed by the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

The Buzz was amused at how creative Republicans were last week in jumping on the Obama administration's inability to count stimulus jobs and its ability to create congressional districts in South Carolina and across the nation that do not exist.

This Saturday's Senate vote on National health care for America looks likely to turn into a long, drawn-out bloodbath as all 40 of the Republicans in the chamber have vowed to filibuster the bill.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. : Boeing today held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction for the second final assembly site for the 787 Dreamliner program at its Boeing C harleston facility.

In case you need further proof we live in a Bizarro World, where everything is backward: A Rasmussen poll conducted last week shows 52 percent of Americans oppose the health-care reform being contemplated in Washington, D.C., and only 45 percent support it.

The federal Web site that tracks spending from the Obama administration's $787 billion economic stimulus program reports that the program has created thousands of jobs in congressional districts that don't exist.

Democrats, with a bit of Republican help, voted 70-29 to limit debate on U.S. District Judge David Hamilton, exceeding the 60 votes needed and assuring his confirmation to the Chicago-based appeals court by a simple majority of the 100-member Senate.

South Carolina First Lady makes a political statement but doesn't embarrass her party or her state.

Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, said in an interview that New Yorkers are being forced by the Obama administration to host the trials for terrorists suspected of planning the Sept.

It was in the glow of a new day in politics last February when Mr. Crist, this state's popular Republican governor, took the stage with President Obama and declared that Republicans and Democrats had to rise above partisanship in support of an economic stimulus.

"It [your opera] had too many notes, remove a few and it will be perfect" --Emperor to Mozart in "Amadeus". The battle for the soul of the Republican Party is over.

Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican known for his efforts to influence domestic immigration and health-care issues, has scored a foreign-policy coup by helping to compel the Obama administration to shift its stance on strife-ridden Honduras.

It's an idea that's long past due and it will probably never happen... A group of Republican senators is proposing a Constitutional amendment to set congressional term limits - 12 years for the Senate and six years for the House.

Republican lawmakers Friday bitterly criticized President Barack Obama's decision to try accused terrorists in the United States and warned against moving detainees to South Carolina.

Nov 13 2009 This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Conservatives' Race to Oblivion Michelle Bachman's "Superbowl of Freedom" was not the first protest with such attention grabbing signage, but merely the latest.

The good news for the GOP comes in a new Gallup poll showing Republicans edging about Democrats ahead of 2010 - and independents breaking the elephants' way: Republicans have moved ahead of Democrats by 48% to 44% among registered voters in the latest update on Gallup's generic congressional ballot for the 2010 House elections, after trailing by ...

Secretary of State Trey Grayson has criticized his opponent in next year's Republican U.S. Senate primary for refusing to promise to support fellow Kentuckian Mitch McConnell as the Senate minority leader.

Republicans are looking to resurrect the angry town halls of August in the last few weeks of November.