Opinion Columns
Woerner: SC bill gives youth, military a fighting chance
As a retired general, I am deeply concerned about the high rate of obesity and low levels of physical activity in children and young adults in our state, which threaten not only their health but our national security...
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Jackson: Obamas’ message not just for black students
I am long familiar with the messages delivered in recent days to black college graduates by the First Family. When done right, they sear you forever and seal you with purpose. Two of my most memorable wake-up calls to my worldly obligations came from my late uncle, Tommie Smith, a dean at historically...
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Sumwalt: SC dead last in highway safety
Prompted by the frustrating lack of recent progress to reduce alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, the National Transportation Safety Board issued bold recommendations last week intended to reignite a national debate: How do we keep alcohol-impaired drivers out of their...
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Robinson: It’s news, not espionage
The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists’ phone records, perusing their emails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from gathering news. This heavy-handed business isn’t chilling, it’s just plain cold.
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Krauthammer: Redacted truth, subjunctive rage
Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don’t know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn’t meet presidency-breaking standards. Third, focusing...
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Samuelson: The $642 billion federal budget excuse
In any other time and place, $642 billion would qualify as a lot of money. But in the Washington of 2013, it has been reduced to pocket change. When the Congressional Budget Office announced that it has cut its projected 2013 federal deficit to $642 billion — compared with 2012’s deficit...
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Milbank: Obama asleep at the wheel
President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency.
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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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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.”


