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When HUMAN EVENTS profiled Sen. Jim DeMint (R.-S.C.) as a possible Republican vice presidential candidate in ’08, we likened the freshman senator and former advertising man to another small businessman in his first Senate term: Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who became a conservative hero after blasting spending under a Republican President and went on to be a successful chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. DeMint had already carved a niche for himself by breaking with fellow Republican and President George W. Bush over the spending issue (“We lost our way when Bush was elected”) and chairing the Senate Republican...

The man who shocked the political world by becoming a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate has been accused of using anti-gay and racial slurs. South Carolina candidate Alvin Greene is denying using the words. Now former campaign aide Dottie Sue Maggart-Feldmen accused Greene of using the slurs in a voice mail to the York County man she says Greene was talking about. The message was left for local Democratic activist Will Bigger, who organized a forum in York Monday night in which Greene spoke and answered questions. In the message, which was obtained by WBTV news partner CN2, Dottie Sue...

“I want to congratulate Joe Miller on his remarkable victory tonight and offer him my full support,” said Senator DeMint. “He pulled off the upset victory of the year because he ran on principles and because Alaskans, like all Americans, want to stop to the massive spending, bailouts, and debt that are bankrupting our country.”I applaud Senator Murkowski for gracefully conceding this race and for doing her part to help Republicans in Alaska move forward. “Joe Miller’s victory should be a wake-up call to politicians who go to Washington to bring home the bacon. Voters are saying ‘We’re not willing...

Roll this phrase around your brain: “Senate Majority Leader Jim DeMint.” Sounds great, doesn’t it? Well, Jim DeMint may not ascend to that position in the next Congress, but he should be the most important player in the Senate in determining the direction of the Republican Party. The Jim DeMint Caucus will be a strong, powerful deterrent to those in the Republican Party who will want to work with the most liberal President of our lifetime to preserve earmarks, elements of Obamacare and billions in wasteful spending. The first shots of a conservative revolution have been fired in the Senate...

Republican incumbent Jim DeMint remains far ahead of surprise Democratic nominee Alvin Greene in the U.S. Senate race in South Carolina. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds DeMint leading Green by a better than three-to-one margin, 63% to 19%. Eight percent (8%) prefer some other candidate, and 10% are undecided.

'I'd rather lose with Pat Toomey than win with Arlen Specter any day." That's South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint defending his Senate Conservatives Fund, a new PAC that has taken Washington by storm.

Recently, the millionaires' club known as the US senate voted to cut off unemployment benefits for millions of Americans. One senator called unemployment insurance a "necessary evil". He got that half right. Do any of these fat cats know what it's like to be unemployed? To not know how you will feed your children and pay your mortgage? I'm unemployed, and, if elected, I can teach the Harvard rich kids in the White House and the senate a thing or two. I will vote for any law and propose any measure to keep jobs in my state of South Carolina....

While lefties are foaming at the mouth over what Republican Senate candidates like Sharon Angle and Rand Paul have to say, they're not quite willing to publicly embrace or defend the antics of their own duly elected nominee, South Carolina U.S. Senate Democratic nominee Alvin Greene. That is, they weren't until now. On the Aug. 17 broadcast of her radio show, Randi Rhodes went to bat Greene. According to Rhodes, the indiscretions that brought Greene indictments, in which he allegedly showed obscene photos to a University of South Carolina student and then talked about going to her dorm room, weren't...

MANNING, S.C. -- In a bizarre interview at his home in Manning, South Carolina, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Alvin Green said he is not quiting the race even after his indictment on a felony charge of obscenity, Greene, who surprised everyone by winning the Democratic primary then ordered Newschannel 36 reporter Rad Berky off of his property. When Berky stopped briefly to talk with Greene's brother Jimmy, Alvin Greene began howling and wailing the words, "no" and "go." Greene continued to wail loudly as Jimmy Greene said that his brother had never talked to him about what happened in...

It's official. The 32-year-old unemployed man representing the Democratic Party in South Carolina's US Senate race has been indicted. Alvin Greene, who won his party's primary in June to the surprise of...well...everyone, was indicted today on two charges including a felony charge of showing pornography to a teenage student.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has long had a flair for the unconventional in his political tactics — and he’s showing it with a huge investment in the Colorado Republican Senate primary. Through his political action committee called the Senate Conservatives Fund, DeMint has spent $141,000 in so-called independent expenditures backing Republican Ken Buck in Colorado, where voters head to the polls Tuesday. He’s also bankrolled tens of thousands of dollars in radio ads on Buck’s behalf, a highly unusual tactic for leadership PACs on Capitol Hill. “I never heard of it before,” said Ken Gross, a Washington-based campaign finance law...

It's been four years since President George W. Bush could be held responsible for the nation's economy, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said Monday evening. DeMint dismissed a key part of Democrats' midterm messaging — warning voters against a return to Bush-era policies — reasoning that Democrats have been controlling U.S. economic policies during the past four years in which they've controlled Congress. "The president [Obama] keeps saying he inherited this, but the fact is that it's been four years since President Bush had anything to do with economic policy," DeMint said during an appearance on WVOC radio in South Carolina....

Here is video of Sen. Jim DeMint during a Senate Floor speech against the nomination of Elena Kagan, where he he hammered Nancy Pelosi for her willful disregard of the her oath of office to the U.S. Constitution. DeMint cited Pelosi’s answer when asked where the U.S. Constitution gives her the right to mandate that people purchase Health Insurance. She responded, “You’ve got to be kidding.” DeMint said Pelosi does not see the Constitution as the document that limits what Government can do to the people. Instead, she and Obama have created a “Yes We Can Congress” that does what...

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LOS ANGELES – Levi Johnston will make his music video debut as a lover whose romance is thwarted by his girlfriend's disapproving mother, according to a Universal Music Group record label and Johnston's attorney. Johnston, 20, who is Bristol Palin's fiance, has agreed to appear in the video with singer-songwriter Brittani Senser next month in Los Angeles. The project is based on the song "After Love" by Senser, 26, a sultry-looking R&B and pop performer from Minneapolis. "He's looking forward to doing it," Rex Butler, Johnston's attorney in Anchorage, Alaska, said Friday. "It will give him an opportunity to act...

..."We don't need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples," Lott told the Washington Post, referring to the conservative South Carolina senator who has been a gadfly for party leadership and a champion for upstart conservative candidates. "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them."...

MANNING -- International media, photographers, more than a dozen television cameras and about 15 reporters turned out Sunday to watch Alvin Greene take the stage for the first time in his political career. The last time so much press came to see a South Carolina politician was when Gov. Mark Sanford returned from Argentina and tearfully confessed a clandestine affair that resulted in his personal and political collapse. Reporters were dispatched from as far away as London for the unlikely U.S. senatorial candidate's first real campaign stump Sunday at Greene's old junior high school. They came to see if Greene...

Alvin Greene; the young, virtually unknown Democratic candidate for the United States Senate from South Carolina, made his first major public speech today. Initial news reports don't include any silly ideas or other gaffes that many expected from the political newcomer. In fact, he seems to be following the highly lauded campaign strategies of our current president - attack your would-be predecessor in front of a friendly crowd and make vague promises you have no idea how to keep.

As Arizona’s controversial immigration law enters the courtroom, Capitol Hill Republicans are trying to intervene in the legal brawl. This week, Sens. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and David Vitter of Louisiana introduced legislation that would block the Obama administration from suing Arizona over its new law to crack down on illegal immigration. Sen. John McCain of Arizona donated $5,000 to a legal defense fund to fight challenges to the law. And the GOP-dominated House Immigration Reform Caucus will file a friend of the court brief early next week, backing Republican Gov. Jan Brewer as she seeks to defend the...

WASHINGTON — Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene still hasn't raised much money in his bid to unseat Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina. Five weeks after stunning the party with his primary win, the unemployed veteran and political novice said he has raised about $1,000. DeMint, the incumbent, had more than $3.5 million on hand after his last filing.