Letter to the Editor: Dear Editor, Ely, Moore, Worth, Gilloy, Amos, Bess, Thornton, Glenn, Lowish, Shank, Nunamaker, Dowler, Ashcraft, Humphries, Wherry, McMullen, Todd, Blossom, Benton, Browder, Guy, Woods, Klein, Gerrard, Altalo, Benedetto, Snead and Deschaine. Recognize these names? No, It’s not the list of prospective jurors. These people do have several things in common; one, […]
OPINION: By U.S. Senate Primary Candidate Nancy Mace Watching the battle on Capitol Hill last week reminded me once again how desperate we are for real leadership in our nation’s capitol. While many have been willing to assign blame and offer the blow-by-blow details of the left vs. right fight, not too many have pointed […]
– By G. Miller Thompson – I am excited to bring the second edition of Profiles in Politics this week! This column continues to feature politicians that represent, or wish to represent, you in state and national government. Today, I would like to introduce you to Lee Bright, another contender for the GOP nomination for […]
OPINION: By G. Miller Thompson – If you have ten dollars in your pocket, you cannot purchase an item that costs twenty dollars. Seems simple right? This principle is called living within one’s means, or not spending more than you have. The idea is not complex, yet has perplexed the minds of many in Washington. […]
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OPINION: By G. Miller Thompson – Cue the music from you favorite superhero movie. It’s a bird; it’s a plane; its….the government? There is a superhero story you will not be seeing in theaters anytime soon. I will not go so far as to say that government is actually the villain, but those 800,000 federal […]
OPINION: – By E. Mims Mobley, M.D. – Photographers have furnished us with images that record history pictorially since Mathew Brady‘s work during our American Civil War. They have also given us photographic vignettes of daily life here and around the world. Norman Rockwell vividly captured Americana with oils on canvas. One of my Rockwell […]
– By G. Miller Thompson – The 2014 GOP Primary race for one of South Carolina’s two US Senate seats is shaping up to be quite an interesting one. The incumbent, Senator Lindsey Graham has upset many South Carolinians including Richard Cash. In a speech Cash gave to the Pickens County Republicans, he noted “Capitalism, […]
OPINION: – By G. Miller Thompson – The Penal Code of the State of California (Section 597) states that “every person who overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, drink, or shelter, cruelly beats, mutilates, or cruelly kills any animal…and whoever…subjects any animal to the needless suffering, or inflicts unnecessary […]
Letter to the Editor September 20, 2013 Dear Edgefield, Recently, a couple of Town issues (TIF and Bow Hunting) have drawn comments in different media outlets from concerned citizens, unfortunately mostly anonymous. I very much appreciate the public concern, as each member of the Edgefield Town Council and myself need to be held accountable for […]