Jim DeMint
James Warren "Jim" DeMint (born September 2, 1951) is the junior United States Senator from South Carolina, serving since 2005. He is a member of the ... More »
Ex-South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wins old House seat back after scandal
The seat became vacant when U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint resigned from his Senate seat late last year. Governor Nikki Haley then appointed the sitting congressman, Tim Scott, to fill DeMint's seat. Colbert Busch had said after she voted in Mount Pleasant, across the Cooper River from ... Read more »
Conservatives battle over resignation of Heritage Foundation scholar
Rubin in a column Friday appeared to put much of the blame for the Richwine flap on Heritage’s new leader Jim DeMint, the former South Carolina Republican senator. “Although the study was developed under former President Edwin ‘Ed’ Feulner’s watch, some Heritage scholars expressed their ... Read more »
Ex-SC Gov. Sanford Reclaims House Seat In Comeback : NPR
The seat became vacant when GOP Sen. Jim DeMint resigned last year and Republican Rep. Tim Scott was appointed to DeMint's seat... Read more »
Opinion: Benghazi: Search for truth or witch hunt?
Then, on to a discussion of the dramatic fractures within the GOP on immigration reform -- a split between former Sen. Jim DeMint's Heritage Foundation and his protégé Sen. Marco Rubio -- which give Dean cause for celebration. But I'm not sure he will ultimately like the outcome of these ... Read more »
Heritage Foundation official resigns amid firestorm over immigrant IQ claim
" Robert Rector, Richwine's co-author on the disputed report, was joined by Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint at a news conference on Monday. ... Read more »
Henryk A. Kowalczyk: Rector's Sermon
Introducing their report in the Washington Post column, president of the Heritage Foundation, a former U.S. senator, Jim DeMint together with Robert Rector, began with quoting the famous statement by Milton Friedman that the United States cannot have open borders and an extensive welfare ... Read more »
AEI's Arthur Brooks: GOP can win Hispanic voters
... of rich conservative/libertarian donors, living in places like New York City and Palm Beach, who religiously read the Wall Street Journal, and who might now be more comfortable donating to a think tank espousing Brooks’ immigration views than Heritage president Jim DeMint’s more populist views... Read more »
Texas Republican Sen. Cruz eligible to be president should he decide to run
“I’ve been in 25 cities in the last few months, all I have to do is mention Ted Cruz’s name, and they stand up and cheer,” former South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint said at a state party dinner earlier this month. “They’re hungry for someone who’s not afraid, willing to stand up ... Read more »
Obama On IRS Scandal: 'I Have Got No Patience' For It
Gov Nikki Haley in Dec. 2012, taking the seat of Jim DeMint. Source: American Conservative Union 2012 Rankings (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/15/cliff-stearns-p ... Read more »
IRS Scandal The IRS Wants to Know If You're a "Patriot"
... Washington on “hyper-partisanship,” saying, “My thinking was after we beat them in 2012, well, that might break the fever, and it’s not quite broken yet.” Conservatives should be concerned about modernizing U.S. defenses so that they are there when we need them, says Heritage President Jim DeMint... Read more »
Predicting the IQ of Future People
One of Richwine's mentors was Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve, who promptly tweeted : Thank God I was working for Chris DeMuth and AEI, not Jim DeMint and Heritage, when The Bell Curve was published. Integrity. Loyalty. Balls. From Murray's perspective, he has a point. For ... Read more »
