Opinions
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OUR VIEW
If South Carolinians were asked whether the state should pay state legislators more or shorten legislative sessions, most no doubt would favor shortening sessions. And many might offer the flippant rationale that shortening the session would give legislators less time to make mischief.
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The recent recommendations by the United States Preventative Services Task Force saying most women don't need mammograms in their 40s has spurred a major controversy and created considerable apprehension among women across the nation. Nonetheless, this is a debate worth having.
I read all the praises for Rep. John Spratt. Although I voted for him and think that he is a good person, what the letter writers failed to mention was that 99 percent of the time, Mr. Spratt votes what the party wants and not what his public in District 5 want.
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The state Legislature never should have approved an official “I Believe” license plate in the first place, nor should it have wasted the taxpayers' money defending an act that anyone with a passing knowledge of U.S. history easily would recognize as unconstitutional.
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Students at two high schools, a public school in Rock Hill and a heralded private school in New York City, have very different takes on the First Amendment.
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While watching the World Series one night, it dawned on me that even if baseball has lost its status as America's pastime, it remains a useful metaphor.
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Ebenezer Scrooge lives, in South Carolina!
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I usually am not crazy about columns that begin, “Webster's defines …”
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The ball.
That is the latest honoree in the National Toy Hall of Fame in New York. I would be cheering except that the Toy Hall of Fame is 11 years old.
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The philosophical problem with hate-crime laws derives from their emphasis on motive. Essentially, the laws allow the federal government to prosecute offenders not only for what they do but also for what they are thinking at the time they do it.
