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Saturday, May 18, 2013
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Looking Back — and Forward
A hundred years ago, anyone who might have predicted in 1913 the monumental, man-made catastrophes that would occur in the rest of the 20th century would have been considered warped, if not completely mentally deranged. Who would have believed that the continent of Europe, which had not had a major ...
Cover-up
By Oliver North WASHINGTON — We all know about the notorious Obama “kill list.” CIA Director John Brennan proudly told us about that last year when he described how the O-Team decides which Americans should be executed by Hellfire missiles fired from remotely piloted aircraft. Why ...
Achieving Success for Teens and Parents
By Al Foderaro During their teen years children are being asked to start making some very important decisions about choosing career clusters and career majors. As a result of having to make these choices, many students can be identified as being “clueless”, “pretenders”, or ...
Erin Spatz: Breaking bread together
When I was a kid we sat down at the table every night as a family and ate dinner together. For the life of me, I cannot recall a single conversation we had at the dinner table, but I can remember what time dinner was served, 6:15. I also cannot recall anyone missing too many of those dinners. It wo ...
John Brock: Mark Sanford can shoot from hip but Vets must take gun classes
Much of US history involves dealing with South Carolina and South Carolinians. With the election of disgraced Mark Sanford to the U.S. House of Representatives, the saga continues. Sanford, because of his marital infidelities and lies concerning his absence from duties as governor of the state, for ...
House Ethics Bill: Business as usual or real reform?
By Barbara Zia and Ashley Landess Less than two weeks ago, we joined with other South Carolina groups to expose an effort by House leaders to sabotage ethics reform and evade disclosure and independent scrutiny. House leaders' plan to decriminalize ethics violations and force citizen activists t ...
Legislative Update
By Rep. Stephen L. Goldfinch The week of the infamous "Cross-Over" is over. Cross-Over, May 1st, is the day when all bills in the SC House of Representatives (and the SC Senate) must be passed and sent to the other body in order for it to become effective law this year. The House Republican Cauc ...
Erin Spatz: Dressing ‘age appropriate’
Summer time brings all kinds of fun things. Beach days and cook outs. Long, lovely, lazy days. And it all brings a shortage of clothes. I don’t mean we don’t have enough. I mean some of the summer clothes are really, really short. As in, crazy short. I am by no means a prude about cloth ...
John Brock: Can “Community Organizers” make good US presidents?
As president of these United States, Barack Obama has proved to be an outstanding “Community Organizer.” But what we really need is a leader of ALL Americans — not just an isolated community. The principal life experience of the current president before entering politics and even ...
State Comptroller General helps protect your wallet
By Richard Eckstrom If you’re the person who keeps up with bills and balances your family checkbook, you can definitely relate to the role of a comptroller general. That’s my title, state comptroller general. Many folks in state government simply refer to me as “the CG.&rdq ...
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