Two nitpicks. Bauer is an ex-Lt. Gov. and the Confederate flag no longer flies atop the dome. It's still on the State House grounds flying in front of the Confederate memorial, but it hasn't been on the dome in over a decade. Otherwise pretty much on target, except I wish he'd found something better to rip DeMint on than his opposition to a hate crime law. I actually support that. I am opposed to basing the punishments handed out for criminal activity based on the motive. Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. would have been just as dead if they'd been killed only for kicks, and their killers would still have been deserving of the harshest punishment our criminal justice system could hand out.
