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.
Calm. That's not a word one hears much these days, but calm is what some are urging in the wake of a new federal report on breast cancer screening.
What was all the fuss about? Smoking was definitely the thing to do if you grew up in the '50s. My parents smoked. The movie stars wielded their cigarettes like weapons, providing an effect that was as glamorous as it was powerful.
State cigarette tax 7 cents per pack
MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan - Is there any way to get around Afghan President Hamid Karzai?
The political battles rage on regarding health care and other matters. I continue to assert that the right, generally, has one purpose: to crush not only President Obama, but also any moderate and progressive resurgence in this country.
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 MOST telling language in the Supreme Court ruling that rejected Gov. Mark Sanford's pathetic contention that waiving his confidentiality doesn't really mean waiving his confidentiality is in Footnote 8.
TODAY IS A GREAT day to stop smoking, and we offer our encouragement to everyone who is using the occasion of the Great American Smokeout to try to break their addiction to nicotine.
When European settlers first came to North America, they saw flocks of geese so big that it took them 30 minutes to all take flight and forests that seemed to stretch to infinity. They came to two conclusions: that God's plans for humanity could be completed here, and that they could get really rich in the process.
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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