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    Fuller: Let’s create more grassroots artistry

    I was traveling recently from the active art venue of Rock Hill toward yet another vibrant art town of Sumter when I decided to investigate the small town of Ridgeway, off Interstate 77. I read it was giving our state an arts festival, and wow: A tiny town can have a...

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    Pitts: What was the IRS thinking?

    Well, this is a fine mess.

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    Will: Forgetting Watergate’s lesson

    “He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to … cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.”

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    Brooks: Will Benghazi yield the next scapegoat?

    Twenty years ago, when she was a young Foreign Service officer in Moscow, Victoria Nuland gave me a dazzling briefing on the diverse factions inside the Russian parliament. Now she is a friend I typically see a couple times a year, at various functions, and I have watched her rise, working with ...

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    Douthat: The taxman vs. the tea party

    As a taxpayer and a conservative who hopes to remain on good terms with the Internal Revenue Service for many April 15ths to come, I don't want to speculate too freely about the motives of the “low level” IRS employees who decided to single out tea party groups for an inappropriate...

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    Robinson: Looks like a witch hunt

    Those who are trying to make the Benghazi tragedy into a scandal for the Obama administration really ought to decide what story line they want to sell.

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    Stille: Universities taking students, taxpayers for a ride

    S.C. taxpayers spent $208 million to help educate undergraduates in the state universities in 2011, and those students kicked in another $1.2 billion in tuition and fees — the third highest average tuition in the country.

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    Thomas: Taxing Internet sales

    In 1998 when President Clinton signed the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibited state and local taxation of Internet access and Internet-only services, the purpose was to promote the commercial potential of the Internet, especially for start-ups and small businesses. Congress extended...

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    Samuelson: Overselling Obamacare

    It’s the great moral imperative behind the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”): People should not be denied health care because they can’t afford insurance. Health status and insurance are assumed to be connected, and opponents have often been cast as moral midgets, willing...

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    News Views

    A proposal to fund an expansion of South Carolina’s full-day 4-year-old kindergarten is making headway in the state Senate and could be approved this year. This would be a positive step for South Carolina toward ensuring that the state’s poorest children have an opportunity to be better...

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