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Alleged financial pyramid scheme targets churches, soldiers

Why the FairTax Army Grows

by

Ken Hoagland

By Judit Trunkos

Columbia is definitely on the political map these days. Aside from the recent presidential debates, former President Bill Clinton made an appearance at the 29th Annual Freedom Fund Celebration hosted and organized by the NAACP last Friday. read more at City Paper’s blog

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The big takeover

By Todd Morehead

Fair Tax: the ‘other’ campaign, Columbia’s Don, and more

Exclusive interview with Rita Shuler, author of Murder in the Midlands: Larry Gene Bell and the 28 Days of Terror That Shook South Carolina

By Brian Ray

By Judit Trunkos

Five Points Confidential remembers Jeff Whitt and Eddie Lee

Urban spear fishing and cavity fighting pizzas

The Associated Press reported last weekend that the current glumness in America was widely blamed on public discontent with the war in Iraq and with President Bush in particular.

It is difficult to speak of luck in hockey with one exception: the Buffalo Sabres

By Ismail Lagardien

The Gamecocks came back from a one-game deficit in the NCAA regional playoffs to defeat the Oregon Ducks in both games of the May 20 double header. Sunday’s win advances Carolina to the first round of the Division 1 Super Regional later this week.

Kurt Vonnegut raised his arms to the amazed crowd, “Be not alarmed! For I bring you tidings of great joy! And an old friend!”

The crowd turned and parted as Dwight D. Eisenhower joined Kurt Vonnegut at the altar. Ike wore his military uniform and carried a 3 wood.

I don’t think this is working. …. Whoa, maybe it is. Okay, why did I just lick my computer screen?

Our friend James Shannon at the Greenville Metro Beat has a great cover story on locally-owned businesses.

”Shopping at locally owned businesses puts three times the dollars into our economy. The study found that of $100 spent at a local business, $45 stays in the community. But that same $100 spent at a chain store would put only $13 in our local economy.”

Perhaps our buddies at their so called progressive, locally-owned establishments will enjoy this read… http://www.metrobeat.net/gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid%3A4451

Handwriting expert Michelle Dresbold takes a look at the Republican Candidates’ handwriting.

An Utterly Reckless Preview of the 2008 Election

Web Extra By Ted Rall

A year after getting booted out of Iraq by the U.S. Army for his investigative reporting, including stories published right here in Columbia City Paper, David Axe is back.

On an early spring morning in the birthplace of the Confederacy one of 2008’s presidential candidates is doing something that— if he were anyone else— would be political suicide: he’s dressing up in a Nazi outfit.

Web Extra By Corey Hutchins

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Inside South Carolina’s nursing crisis

By Will Moredock

By Corey Hutchins

Columbia attorney and vocal civil rights and political activist Tom Turnipseed, the self-styled “agitator” planning to run for Lindsay Graham’s U.S. Senate seat in 2008, is a living paradox. Currently the most pacifistic progressive in the Seersucker South, he has no qualms about his racist past.

Music notes By Sean Rayford

The band’s tour manager claims that “you guys are gonna poop your pants” after hearing the [new Darkest Hour] record.

Heroes and villains in Lexington, Misdemeanors in the Mansion, and more

We are pleased to bring our readers an exclusive interview with presidential candidate Senator Warren George W. van Bureau. Readers will recall the Senator’s February essay, “A Very Brief History of the Untied States.” Again, Senator van Bureau represents the state of Confusion, the newly-formed, landlocked, 51st state of the Union, recently established by Congress somewhere east of the Pee Dee.

“It looked like a monster. Like a monster movie but it wasn’t a movie,” he says. “I was just looking at his face, I was so shocked. It had eyes and a nose and ears [pointed] this way and a thing sticking up, you know. It looked like a gargoyle. I wasn’t on drugs.” When the spaceship touched down Dreadlock tried to run to catch it to see what it was. But “it didn’t pay [him] no mind.”

By Ismail Lagardien

In the United States there is a sense of great expectation about the purchase of England’s pedigreed teams by American businessmen.

By Will Moredock

Gov. Sanford nominating Charlie Condon to the board of the State Ports Authority is like the Boy Scouts of America nominating Michael Jackson for Troop Leader of the Year

Art gallery events May 9 - 23

By Ted Rall

Four years late and half a trillion dollars short. Why didn’t George Tenet tell us this stuff when it mattered–before we invaded Iraq? Tenet could have been a hero. He could have changed history.

Heinous local crimes conveniently categorized by zip code

Something stinks here…oh it is another batch of “Letters To The Reader”

The Statehouse Report by Andy Brack

“That’s not a meal at McDonald’s,” remarked Jermaine Husser, director of the Lowcountry Food Bank, which annually provides food to more than 154,000 people in 10 coastal area counties.

See some local live music….

Shatner and space dumpsters

Dear Michelle, Today, clients love my work, but somehow I just can’t seem to jumpstart my personal marketing process. If there is anything underlying this that handwriting would show, and I can address it, I’d love to know about it.
Needs Enlightenment in Columbia, SC

There has since been a coast-to-coast purge of Cocaine from store shelves by the boxes.

By Corey Hutchins

Movie times for Friday, May 3.

Last day for open art studios, today Sunday from 12-6pm as part of the http://www.columbiafestivalofthearts.com/tour.asp

Fireworks and music tonight at Finlay Park for the final night of the festival.

New City Paper blog post

While Wild Wings and Jammin’ Java have banned City Paper from their establishments we support local music, local businesses and don’t hold a grudge. (Shows at these places are also listed)

Change your e-mail password often if you are going to cheat, and you’ll have to google BDSM and the Kinsey scale because I have no idea what these things are.

Another very educational Savage Love Web Extra…

USC president Andrew Sorensen left the scene of an accident and was cited for driving too fast for conditions on April 25, according to a report obtained by Columbia City Paper

By Corey Hutchins