GOV. MARK SANFORD doesn't win any brownie points on transparency for agreeing to release an ethics report after he apparently learned that it doesn't contain any bombshells.
THE ONE saving grace in the "I Believe" fiasco is that it shouldn't cost taxpayers much money to pick up the tab for the busybodies who brought suit against the political panderers who wanted to emblazon license tags with a cross-emblazoned stained-glass window and the words "I Believe."
This may sound strange, but I agree with the recent editorial, "Now not the right time for upgrades at beloved zoo" (Nov. 15). That is why, at a recent appearance before Lexington County Council, I began by stating that the purpose of the presentation was to inform council of our existing and future capital needs and to seek council members' advice on the wisdom and timing of a bond issue. We have been communicating with members of Richland County Council about these same plans.
I'm sure I would like Sarah Palin if I got the chance to meet her. We share many things in common. She is still married to her first spouse, as am I. She has a Down syndrome son. I have a brother with Down syndrome. We share the same faith and we both like the outdoors. She is conservative on economic and social issues, and so am I.
Last week, the inspector-general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, aka, the bank bailout fund, released his report on the 2008 rescue of the American International Group, the insurer. The gist of the report is that government officials made no serious attempt to extract concessions from bankers, even though these bankers received huge benefits from the rescue. And more than money was lost. By making what was in effect a multibillion-dollar gift to Wall Street, policymakers undermined their own credibility - and put the broader economy at risk.
While on the surface the call of USC president Harris Pastides made to engage in civil, and only civil, discourse seems like something all of us can support and certainly something in which we want our students properly schooled, I have to ask what this civil discourse will cost us.
Kathleen Parker will discuss America's political discourse and the first year of the Obama presidency at 7 p.m. Thursday at Belk Auditorium in the Darla Moore School of Business. To attend, RSVP to Elaine Taylor at taylorem@mailbox.sc.edu or (803) 777-7118.
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IN RECENT years, Jesus has been appearing to folks across the country in some very mysterious ways.
THE ONE saving grace in the "I Believe" fiasco is that it shouldn't cost taxpayers much money to pick up the tab for the busybodies who brought suit against the political panderers who wanted to emblazon license tags with a cross-emblazoned stained-glass window and the words "I Believe."
IT'S IRRESPONSIBLE for Swansea's elected leaders to give themselves raises even as the town struggles to pay a $500,000 debt to the state.
- "It needs to come to the floor of the House for a vote. I think South Carolina needs to know what they got."
THE EDITORIAL BOARD of The State finds itself faced with a happy dilemma — a choice between two
presidential candidates whom we unanimously and enthusiastically endorsed in their primary contests. Now the nation must choose between them, and while we believe either man would make a fine president, we endorse Sen. John McCain of Arizona....
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