Smallwood Cove Project Pulled
Lake Murray’s water intake towers are a 223 foot fixture at the Dreher Shoals Dam. The towers are over 95 years old delivering water to drive the turbines and generate power to the Mid-Lands of SC. The 93 acre tract of land was very near this spot. Photo Michael Reed The 93 acre...
Presumptuous Sin
"But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people."---Numbers 15:30 This verse speaks of a serious matter, presumptuous sin. But what is presumptuous...
Trying to Rectify Perceived Injustice with Vengeful Injustice is Doomed
Soldiers prepared for attack. Photo courtesy Pexels/Asim Alnamat. After the last few years of increasing progressive radicalism, Americans are finally seeing pushback from Congress over the wokeness permeating too much of the US military under the Biden Administration. For decades,...
Espionage Must be Stopped
China is waging silent warfare on the US: spy balloons, active measures, education and more. Clearly February 2023, was not a good month for national security. The Twitter File Hearings revealing connections between Twitter and the FBI in “rigging” the 2020 Presidential...
Controversial Book Sparks National Attention in School District
This article aims to give a glimpse into the controversial book that has captured the nation’s attention after the book was removed in the middle of a lesson in a Lexington-Richland District 5 School in Chapin, South Carolina. The article then aims to address the author's...
Leading Cause of Liver Failure in the US Revealed by NIH
Liver failure is a result of almost 2% of all deaths in America. Photo courtesy Adobe Stock photos. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has revealed in a report that overdose of the painkiller acetaminophen is now the leading cause of liver failure in the United States....
The Only Two Studies Used in Transgender Industry Found Faulty & Flawed
The term transgender has come to mean one confused in mind as to what they really are. The tragedy is that many who discover what they always were have already mutilated their body. Photo courtesy Unsplash/Alexander Grey. “No child is born in the wrong body, their bodies are just...
Security Threat on US Border
Illegal aliens are coming across the border at alarmingly high rates and continue to threaten the sovereignty and safety of America and her citizens. This scene is typical of what is happening on the Texas border. Photo Michael Reed. This previously published article has been updated. ...
How ‘Uncle Joe’ Starved Millions and Got Away With It
It's often called the staff of life. Communist dictator Joseph Stalin stole wheat to starve the Ukraine people. Photo courtesy Unsplash/Polina Rytova. The famine in Ukraine in 1932-33, is known as the Holodomor. This famine took place under Communist dictator Joseph Stalin. He...
Do We Have the Government We Deserve?
"Moses holding the 10 Commandments" by Gustave Dore. "Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway." Deuteronomy 11:1 The above verse is a clarion call to our service and duty as Christians to the...
“Ban on Speech” Lifted by Federal Judge
SC House Freedom Caucus Chairman Adam Morgan makes comment "We fought back..." immediately following a Judge's ruling on their free speech case. A lawsuit to protect free speech filed back in March for the SC House Freedom Caucus against the House of Representatives Legislative...
Over 300 Voice Disapproval of Lexington Annexation Attempt
Over 300 Lexington residents attended Wednesday's work session to discuss land and annexation. The Smallwood Cove project began as a self admitted "secret project" of Lexington Mayor Steve MacDougall to develop and construct a 93 tract of land privately owned which is under...
Develop Responsibly Group Leads Charge Against Annexation
Lexington Town Council Special Work Session on Wednesday evening. Photo from file. The Town Council and Lexington County Council Special Called Combined Work Session officially began at 6pm Wednesday evening at Town Hall. That meeting actually began Wednesday morning on the Gary...
Men Need to Stand Against Constitutional Violations
Photo courtesy Unsplash/Matt Popovich. I was recently stopped at one those so-called “Safety Check” points. The last time about 11pm near the Fair Grounds in Columbia, with about 6 S.C. Highway Patrolman. I asked to speak to their supervisor. I explained to the supervisor that I did...
How Long?
Winston Churchill was called upon by the British people to take over as Prime Minister of the country following a perceived weakness shown by Neville Chamberlain in dealing with Germany's Chancellor Adolf Hitler in the early stages of WWII. The question today, as then, is "How long" before we see...
Professions Sacrificing Trust on Altar of Wokeness
Trust is part of the training at military schools among others. The word "Trust" is etched on the edge of a bench at the US Military Academy at West Point. Photo courtesy Unsplash/Dave Lowe. A newly published video of new doctors taking a revised Hippocratic Oaths at Columbia University...
False Meat, False Men, False Prophets, and False Gods
Just like a ravenous wolf, we must beware of false and deceitful things in this world of we will become ensnared. Photo courtesy Unsplash/Philipp Pilz. False meat, false men, false prophets, and false gods are here, and more are coming. Don’t be deceived! A recent video showed...
Restore American Greatness
Many reading this have probably read an article or commentary by one of our writer's, newspaper man and former combat veteran Dean Allen. Dean wrote for The Standard newspaper for the past several years and had recently published his fifth book entitled: Restore American Greatness: A...
‘Biden & Gomorrah’ Degeneracy
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil” —Isaiah 5:20 Picture a rainbow colored jackboot stomping on your face for the rest of time—that’s what’s coming if we fail to fight back. The White House was intentionally defiled when Pedo Joe Biden held a ‘Pride’...
Is There Hope for America?
US Air Force grads celebrating. Photo courtesy Military.com/US. Air Force photo/Amber Whittington. I want to address something that truly bothered me. I recently took a cruise which shall we say left me not so well. I will address that later. What I will talk about here is something that...
‘Stop Censoring Americans’ Social Media Posts,’ Judge Orders White House
Social media giants have been censoring US citizens for way too long. Afederal Judge just nixed that with an historical ruling for free speech and against the government. Photo courtesy Pexels/Pixaby. In his 155-page ruling, Judge Terry Doughty said there is “substantial evidence” the...
When Do The Arrests Begin?
Photo courtesy KSAT. Treason has been documented, what are we waiting for? Oh, wait, they won’t arrest themselves! Let me be plain and blunt. For those who think for themselves and not through political parties and the Deep State press, the following has been established beyond...
Judge Rules Against Government Censorship
YouTube has been fingered as a culprit in cooperation with US government censorship. A federal judge in Louisiana has issued a ruling that limits the Biden administration’s communication with social media platforms regarding a wide range of online content, including false narratives about...
Communist Based Affirmative Action Removed
Many Americans take freedom and independence for granted, unless you fled from a Communist regime. The lady pictured did just that and is making the most of it. Photo courtesy Lily Tang Williams.com. Most Americans don't realize just how good we've got it. That is, until you speak with...
Judge Stops “The Most Massive Attack Against Free Speech in US History”
A Federal judge has ruled against government sponsored censorship through big tech social media companies. Among those named are YouTube. Huge Victory over Censorship! In the beginning was the Word, and Satan objected. It is the most basic of human existence to be able to tell your story,...
Why Medical Freedom?
Why should you care about Medical Freedom in the United States? I tend to have a strong stance on vaccines and their efficacy and you might not agree in part or at all with me. Is it all just about these crazy anti vax hippies or is there more to it? Who here has a long term...
Ring the Bell!
Pictured is the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. Photo courtesy Independence Hall visitors center. This year 2023, we commemorate 247 years since our Founding Fathers signed their own potential death warrant we call the Declaration of Independence. There is typically one of perhaps a couple of...
America’s Forefathers Shattered My Communist Chains
Lily Tang Williams escaped from Communist China and fled to America. Photo courtesy Lily Tang Williams. My story begins in Chengdu, China, at the dawn of the Cultural Revolution, an insanity that gripped millions of my countrymen. We were destitute, as were most Chinese during this period....
What Price Liberty? A Family Answers the Call
Photo courtesy Pexels/Tim Mossholder. When their ship from the Netherlands docked in the harbor of New Amsterdam (now New York City) in 1688, Garrett Hendricks DeWeese, and his wife Zytian, could not have known of the historic events that would direct the destiny of their future family. Nor...
Why Grandpa Carried a Gun
The quintessential reason why Grandpa carried a gun was that he wanted to live a little longer. My Grandpa lived in a small town in upstate SC. He was a simple man who had moved from the mountains of Virginia to South Carolina when he was a young man over 100 years ago. Life was...
Was There Division in the America First Movement at Republican Convention?
OPINION The question was asked if there was a division in the vote for state Chairman among the ranks of Republicans who gathered for the SC Republican State Convention this past Saturday? The only division was the one caused by SC State Republican Party Chairman Drew McKissick and...
What Price Independence?
The Declaration of Independence is 247 years old this year, and it seems to reflect more graphically today what our forefathers experienced than ever before. It is a given that the men who signed the Declaration were literally putting their lives on the line when they decided...
Trump Pickens Rally Tops Expectations
View from up high behind Trump platform in Pickens. Photo courtesy of unspecified Facebook post. Please advise if this photo belongs to you. It was announced that 75,000 people came out of their air conditioned comfort zone to sit outside in sweltering heat of close to 100 degrees for up to...
China Is Setting Up Shop In America’s Backyard. Here’s Why You Should Worry
China, according to “fragmentary” U.S. intelligence reports, is about to establish a “joint military training facility” with Cuba on that island. Photo courtesy Flicker. Chinese military personnel are already listening in on American communications from the Lourdes base near Havana...
A Name Too Sacred
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,’ declares Yahweh.” --- Isaiah 55:8 The New International Version of the Bible, and other versions, translate the Hebrew tetragrammaton YHWH as LORD. This revealed name of God Exodus 3:12-18; 6:1-8...
GOP Playing “Down and Dirty” Politics Within Party
These days, one South Carolina Republican Leader says the SC GOP is acting like the Biden Political Camp—using “down and dirty politics” to eliminate rivals, in this case, even those within its own party. This sort of illegal maneuvering should be the stuff of old black and...
Were Illegal CRT Videos Shown at Lexington-Richland District 5 School?
In a recent Lexington County school incident a teacher was accused of teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT). CRT has been described as a "radical school of academic thought that centers on an individual's ethnic background." Critical Race Theorist, Richard Delgado, makes defines CRT in...
Gun History and Facts
Don’t be so naive to think that tyranny could not happen in the USA. Bad guys live in every century and in every culture, and they are waiting for the moment they can take advantage of people who cannot stop or defend themselves against them. In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun...
Planning Commission Hears Rezoning Request
On Monday evening, the West Columbia Planning Commission held a public hearing on the request to rezone a 6.34 acre parcel near the Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Garden for a higher density neighborhood. The property is located at 1820 Sunset Boulevard and Botanical Parkway and the...
Lexington Citizens Say “No” to 93 acre Dam Project
"Town of Lexington Residents" are sending a message to the Town Mayor and Town Council: they say "No" to the no longer "secret" proposed 93 acre dam project. Photo Michael Reed. A citizens group calling themselves "Town of Lexington Residents" are trying to get someone's attention....
Lexington at Crossroads
Lexington at Crossroads Our Lexington community stands at the most critical point since being formed as the township of Saxe Gotha in 1735. The township was established to encourage settlement and as a strategic buffer between the upper crust of Charleston’s low country, and the unchartered...
Rights in Danger of Being Lost With a Rising Uniparty Monopoly
It's safe to say that America as a whole, and California in particular, has heading the wrong direction for quite a long time. Photo courtesy Pexels/Benjamin Farren. California is at it again in pushing the bounds of progressive radicalism with minor trans “affirmation” and surgery....
Lexington at Crossroads
The new billboard erected by Lexington residents to bring attention to the $30 million dollar project of town council. Photo Michael Reed Our Lexington community stands at the precipice of change, a critical moment of decision not faced since being formed as the township of Saxe Gotha in...
Disney “Anti-Christ” Series Being Pulled
The black and white---and innocent---days of Disney are long gone. Walt Disney died in 1966, 57 years ago this December. The above is an opening scene of a typical Walt Disney presents program. Photo courtesy Internet Archive video still. I grew up watching Walt Disney movies and Sunday...
Is the Biden Administration Targeting Their Political Enemies?
January 6 "Kangaroo Court" of Biden-Pelosi team discussing Trump. Photo courtesy Slate.com. With the targeted destruction of "All Things Trump," leftists, Biden Democrats and radical liberals in America have been determined to crash, crush and destroy a whole range of wonderful and...
The Face Behind YouTube’s Censorship
The graphic pictured above was featured in The Washington Times concerning the Google and their Communist connection. The Times headline and sub-head read: "How Google is Communist China’s collaborator, The company is a participant in ventures it must know directly benefit the People's Liberation...
Freedom Caucus “Over Target”, Wins Rights to Represent Constituents Over Opposition
Freedom Caucus members Reps Jordan Pace, Vice Chair RJ May, and Chair Adam Morgan speaking before the East Cooper River Republican Women in Charleston. Photo courtesy Freedom Caucus Facebook page. This article originally ran in The Standard print edition but has been edited with more recent...
What is Happening With American Justice?
US Supreme Court. The news today that Hunter Biden and his attorneys had brokered a plea deal with Federal prosecutors over Hunter’s alleged misconduct was appalling to at least half the country who represent conservative views based on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution....
Presidential Candidate Censored by Social Media Giant
Democrat Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was censored by YouTube. The social media giant is owned by Google a subsidiary of Alphabet. Photo courtesy FotoJet. The following article has some excerpts from Fox News. It seems in today's world that social media giants are imposing...
“2A Shall Not Be Infringed Tour” Stops in Columbia
The Second Amendment is under fire across the country. Most Americans are unaware their rights secured by the Constitution are being whittled away by left leaning Democrats and RINO Republicans in the State legislature. The “2A Shall Not Be Infringed Tour” recently toured the state with...
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