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Lately, in my history of the Old South class, I’ve had some interesting discussions with my students about John C. Calhoun’s theories on the Constitution of the United States. Therefore, the Constitution has been on my mind recently as I have read about the state of South Carolina’s lawsuit to create an “I Believe” license plate with taxpayer’s money. When U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie handed down her 57-page decision ruling against South Carolina and ordering the state to pay not only its own trial costs but those of the litigants as well, the whole issue made me think about Americans and their knowledge, or lack thereof, of so important a document as their Constitution. Judge Currie declared that the creation of such a license plate, subsidized by the state, was clearly unconstitutional, yet her decision provoked an expected hue and cry.
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The letters that ran in Sunday’s Rock Hill Herald clearly show how rancorous the debate over national health insurance reform has become. While some will try to use this debate for partisan purposes, small businesses have a different priority in this matter — to make health insurance more affordable.
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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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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.
