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2 days ago | 
fitsnews.com | Mark Powell |Michael Blackmon
“I’m surprised it took this long.”That’s one Republican strategist’s take on the widening rift between U.S. president Donald Trump and Elon Musk, his former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief. It was a marriage born of convenience, a brash mega-billionaire who wanted to try his hand in the political world, and an equally brash politician (and billionaire) who desperately wanted to get his old job back.
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4 days ago | 
fitsnews.com | Mark Powell |Michael Blackmon
At exactly 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday evening, June 1, 1980, American cable subscribers watched something never seen before in the annals of broadcasting.
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1 week ago | 
fitsnews.com | Mark Powell |Michael Blackmon
Lost amid the hustle and bustle of the holiday weekend was a political bombshell. James Carville, the wily octogenarian political strategist who was a key architect of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential win, dropped the news while Americans were preparing for their annual boating and barbecuing. Asked on MSNBC (a channel that is to liberals what MTV once was to teenagers) which Democrat he would support in the 2028 presidential election, Carville said if U.S. Rep.
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1 week ago | 
fitsnews.com | Mark Powell |Michael Blackmon
She surfs, knows martial arts and practices yoga. She is a Hindu (settling on it after having studied Buddhism in her youth), a college dropout who went on to become a member of Congress and a military veteran who saw service in Iraq and Kuwait. She was a Democrat (rising to vice chair of the DNC, no less) who ran for president and then became a Republican.
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1 week ago | 
fitsnews.com | Mark Powell |Michael Blackmon
Phones are ringing from the Pee Dee to the Isle of Palms these days – from the Midlands through the Piedmont to the Upstate. Lots of phones. And there’s one name being discussed above all the others. It’s former South Carolina lieutenant governor André Bauer. Once the wunderkind of Palmetto politics, the 56-year-old Charleston native has been largely out of the public eye for eye for well over a decade. Until now.
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2 weeks ago | 
fitsnews.com | Mark Powell |Michael Blackmon
We often hear it said in jest when someone is flustered: “Don’t have a stroke!”Turns out there’s truth in those words – and there are important steps each one of us can take to help ourselves and those we love in the event strokes strike. A stroke is a serious and significant medical emergency. Unfortunately, it’s an all too common one as well.
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2 weeks ago | 
fitsnews.com | Mark Powell |Michael Blackmon
Four months after his decades-long political career ended, Joe Biden has a different type of fight on his hands. The former U.S. president was diagnosed Friday (May 16, 2025) with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Doctors added that it has spread to his bones. “While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive, which allows for effective management,” a statement from the former president’s office noted.
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3 weeks ago | 
fitsnews.com | Mark Powell |Michael Blackmon
by MARK POWELLSomewhere in Greenville, South Carolina, various pros and cons are being contemplated ahead of an important decision. A lot is riding on the choice, too – because when Upstate multimillionaire John Warren makes up his mind, what he ends up doing will have a big impact on the 2026 Palmetto State governor’s race. Whether he jumps in or stays out… Warren’s decision will help define the upcoming contest.
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3 weeks ago | 
fitsnews.com | Mark Powell |Michael Blackmon
Just as Democrats were heaving a sigh of relief that Joe Biden had disappeared from the national stage, the former president is reinserting himself in the conversation. An unwritten rule among ex-presidents is to largely stay mum during a new chief executive’s first year in office. Donald Trump shattered that rule in 2021, bashing Biden at every opportunity. Now Biden is taking the baton and is running with it. He and his wife sat down with the ladies on “The View” last Thursday.
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4 weeks ago | 
fitsnews.com | Mark Powell |Michael Blackmon
May 8 marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, VE Day for short. There was plenty for Americans to celebrate back in 1945. After nearly four years of hardship and sacrifice—not to mention 416,000 deaths and another 671,000 wounded (many maimed for life)—fighting on the European continent was finally over. Adolf Hitler had splattered his brains on his bunker wall with a bullet, and Allied forces now ruled over conquered Berlin. That, at least for that theater of operations, was that.
