GOV. NIKKI Haley frequently has pledged to surround herself with “people that are better than me,” by which she apparently means experts in their fields. It’s a mantra we hear frequently from chief executives, although she seems more committed to it, perhaps because of her youth or relatively short political resume.
On the day Christina-Taylor Green was born, 19 men using four hijacked air buses left a pristine American morning forever stained with blood.
It would be merciful if, when tragedies such as Tucson’s occur, there were a moratorium on sociology. But respites from half-baked explanations, often serving political opportunism, are impossible because of a timeless human craving and a characteristic of many modern minds.
I’VE JOINED fellow church members in an effort to get rid of our pastor.
The echo ringing loudest in the wake of the Tucson tragedy is not of the gunshots that killed six and severely wounded a congresswoman, among others, but of the sharp and piercing words that ricochet around us. Was the rhetoric the real trigger for the Arizona shooter’s action? Should we muzzle political speech in a democratic society? Is civility the antidote for violence?
My recent experiences at the Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center have been far more pleasant than anything I expected. From dealing with the State Office of Veterans Affairs to the audiology lab, orientation seminar and a Jan. 7 lab visit, I have been impressed with the positive and helpful attitude of everyone I have had contact with.
IT SHOULDN’T BE a big surprise that Richland County voters defeated a proposed penny-on-the-dollar sales tax increase.
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I’VE JOINED fellow church members in an effort to get rid of our pastor.
PERHAPS YOU’VE heard that South Carolina has some money problems: budget slashed by $2 billion over the past couple of years, another $800 million in cuts coming up this session, to get next year’s spending down to around $5 billion.
MARK SANFORD is gone, but one of his parting ideas for balancing next year’s budget shouldn’t be forgotten: cutting state employees’ salaries.
We may not be sure that the bloodbath in Tucson had anything to do with politics, but we know it had everything to do with our nation’s insane refusal to impose reasonable controls on guns.
