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Dowd: Taxing times for Obama
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Monday letters: Bush presidency tragic for U.S.
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Monday letters: S.C. must recruit, hire top leaders
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Monday letters: We need truth about Benghazi
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Samuelson: The $642 billion federal budget excuse
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Scoppe: Ethics reform: At a crossroads
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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...
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McClatchy cartoons for the week of 5/19/13
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CINDI SCOPPE
Odds, ends and extras in the ethics bills
People who lobby the Legislature must register with the state, and they’re barred from giving gifts or campaign donations to public officials and serving on state governing boards. There also are limits on the lobbyists’ employers.
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CINDI SCOPPE
Why ethics reform now?
Demands for ethics reform coalesced amidst a string of ethics scandals, a study that tied the scandals to flaws in our laws and the first election after a federal judge threw out a key component of our campaign reporting law:
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OPINION EXTRA
Sanchez: Responsibility for Asian sweatshop safety lies with us, too
Another apparel factory has collapsed in a poor Asian country, killing three workers, and I fear I'm partly to blame.
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EDITORIALS
Editorial: Richland County’s unaccountable elections board’s days should be numbered
WHY DOES the Richland County Board of Elections and Voter Registration as we know it even exist?
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OPINION COLUMNS
Milbank: Obama asleep at the wheel
President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Buckner: MOX, new nuclear reactors, storage critical to peace, safety
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s historic “Atoms for Peace” address to the U.N. General Assembly nearly 60 years ago laid the foundation for turning nuclear swords into plowshares for the benefit of mankind. We have made great progress toward achieving...
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OPINION COLUMNS
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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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Friday letters: Obama suddenly knows nothing
Much of America rejoiced in 2008 when the sharpest and most intelligent president since Thomas Jefferson was elected. Unlike George W. Bush, whose gentleman’s C’s would highlight his intelligence, we now had a constitutional law school professor.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Friday letters: It’s time to bring our troops home
I believe that fighting World War I and World War II was absolutely necessary to our nation’s security. I do not believe that fighting in Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq or Afghanistan was necessary to the security of our nation.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Friday letters: Congress can’t be trusted
In her April 30 letter, “Children’s lives come before guns,” Wendy Bass suggested that some people are more concerned about gun rights than the lives of innocent children. Let me suggest that the two concerns are not mutually exclusive.
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