SC to nix tax on terrorism

You gotta love those Palmetto People, especially the ones making public policy. Up until now, revolutionaries and terrorists in South Carolina have had to register with the government and pay a five-dollar fee. The legislature is going to dump those draconian requirements. Republican Party leaders must have gotten worried that they'd land in hot water with all their revolutionary tea-baggin' rhetoric.

COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina lawmakers have given initial approval to repealing a 1951 law requiring any group that wants to overthrow the government to register and pay a $5 fee.

A Senate Judiciary panel Thursday approved repealing the McCarthy-era law adopted during the Cold War communist scare.

Sen. Larry Martin says the archaic measure is pointless. The Pickens Republican says bloggers spread the misconception last month that legislators had recently passed the bill, prompting concern from conservative activists and ridicule from others.