South Carolina Liberty News

Thursday, October 1, 2026

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USC pours $350 million into stadium glitz

TAXES & SPENDING

State arts money for some, not all

Revealed: where 'Vision Center' cash should have gone

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Santee Cooper demand surges. Who pays?

Dominion mega-merger: what's in it for ratepayers?

$6.2 million for Battery blueprints alone

Child care help? Get in line, DSS says

Vulnerable adults fall through the state's cracks

THE COURTS

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Court: 'egregious' nursing home death costs $24 million

SC asbestos court fight lands at Supreme Court

$75 billion climate shakedown hits a wall

Calhoun courthouse catches hand in the fine jar

POLICE & SURVEILLANCE

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Deputies kept coming. Two children still died

Murdaugh lawyers: hand over the cover-up files

The Graham investigation that never happened

Inmate complaint brings charges for jail worker

Resurfaced clip dogs Myrtle Beach police pick

Richland tries services instead of jail cells

It started with a window tint stop...

THE STATEHOUSE

Democrats no-show women's sports hearing

State closes cruel stillbirth leave loophole

Regulators eye those quick-cash-for-homes signs

SC and Georgia renters play by different rules

CITY HALL

Folly Beach owners: scrap the rental cap

James Island project faces yet another review

Horry early voting opens Oct. 19: know the rules

Upstate road reopens after years shut

SCHOOLS

School choice critics meet the data

A new path around the teacher license wall

NATIONAL NEWS

PODCAST

Hannah Henriksen: Why Human Respect Is Essential to LibertyGeorge Washington in 2026: Winning Liberty Is Only the Beginning Grover Norquist: Why the Fight for Lower Taxes Is Really a Fight for Liberty Naomi Brockwell: The Fight to Take Back Your Digital Privacy Topher Field: Why Good People Break Bad Laws

STORIES

Liberty at Home Requires Restraint Abroad Lawmakers Raised Their Own Pay. Then Raised Taxes on South Carolinians She Built Kentucky’s YAL Network From the Ground Up How Grassroots Activists Forced a Delay in a Surveillance Expansion Vote The Student Who Refused to Let His Chapter Die How Grassroots Organizing Changed Wyoming's Legislature Transparency Is the Foundation of Trust in Government

WAR POWERS

Rubio boots Iran's negotiators, Trump teases next strikes^NEW

Scott Horton: the Iran 'panicans' were right

Ron Paul asks: is Cuba next?^NEW

Ron Paul: America finally (sort of) out of Iraq^NEW

THE FED

Washington's debt bill explodes: yields hit 24-year high^NEW

...and your mortgage just hit 7.28%^NEW

Kashkari confesses: inflation 'still too high'^NEW

Fed watchdog clears Fed chief. Naturally.^NEW

Crop prices log biggest jump since Ukraine invasion^NEW

DUE PROCESS

Sue a fed in California? Meet qualified immunity.

Supreme Court puts deportation machine under the knife^NEW

Court slaps rogue sheriff who seized 650,000 ballots^NEW

He fought for his country. Now it wants his land.^NEW

CRONY CAPITALISM

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Musk, Luckey and Gingrich walk into the Pentagon...^NEW

Trump's steel mill: steelmakers win, you pay^NEW

Trump and Big AI go all-in together^NEW

GUN RIGHTS

Gutowski: America never taxed common guns. Why start?

EXECUTIVE OVERREACH

Reminder: the Constitution has no 'emergency' clause

Trump on ads you paid for: 'I'm promoting the country'

Trump regrets his own Supreme Court picks^NEW

The libertarian case for impeachment...^NEW

THE SURVEILLANCE STATE

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Cops' AI dragnet grabbed innocent driver. Judge just killed it.

DHS watchlisted Americans over 'potential inaccuracies'

Leak: cops can beat your iPhone's lock-down reboot^NEW

America rejects plate cameras, San Francisco shrugs^NEW

SPEECH POLICE

Cops knocked over her Facebook post. Lawsuit stands.

Ask Trump's chatbot who won 2020. Good luck.

Pepperdine bans professor who taught a black Jesus

Court: publishing sealed arrest records is protected speech

TAXES & REGULATION

Judge blocks Trump's $100,000 visa toll^NEW

Treasury readies $3,400 school-choice tax credit^NEW

Watch: how Washington made your BLT more expensive^NEW

Nicotine isn't the killer. Politicians ban it anyway.^NEW

First city to price-fix your groceries...^NEW

LIBERTY MOVEMENT

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Rand Paul: Americans poorer under Trump than Biden^NEW

Jack Hunter: more Massie, fewer midterm woes

FEDERAL FAILURE

FAA hiring spree follows 'chronically understaffed' confession^NEW

Trump orders rats and mosquitoes out of DC^NEW

STATES PUSH BACK

Texas kills cop shop that gave 'no benefit'