It is only natural that people have always been inclined to make New Year’s resolutions and perhaps start or change some things in the following 12 months.
Truth is not in the eye of the beholder. Truth is a series of facts that often need to be proven or investigated. Truth is not an opinion. Truth is not a series of alternate facts because a series of alternate facts is a series of untruths. The search for truth can be frustrating but eventua…
For a teenager in the 1970s, the Boy Scout Handbook offered an escape into a practical world that provided answers to lots of things for a young, curious mind: how to tie knots, start campfires, safely hike and camp in the woods, use a compass, identify trees and track animals. Manuals for m…
Be prepared and plan for what promises to be a very busy 2022 election cycle.
A friend recently sent me a British video that contained some wise words.
Let’s look at 2022 as an opportunity to improve ourselves and our health. This is somewhat liking to making New Year’s Resolutions to make ourselves better.
It’s been a year since a mob of enraged Americans stormed the United States Capitol. What’s happened since may be even more shocking: The attack accentuated our country’s political fissures instead of starting to heal them.
A reader from Hartsville complains a recent column on improving common good was little more than a promotional campaign that is “leftist, liberalistic, socialistic.”
Somewhere. There’s a place for us,
Recent legislative sessions have been wholly unspectacular in terms of lifting up South Carolinians. It’s as if the whole notion of “common good” has flown the Statehouse coop.
Your local newspaper, particularly those published weekly, is under siege. And in the process, so is our democracy.
Citizens across Greenwood County have engaged in work toward racial reconciliation for several decades.
Former S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley offers a craven mush of platitudes in a new policy book that is little more than a painful cry for political relevance.
Somewhere…
If we don’t want to lose our freedoms and democracy in America, we’re going to have to fight to protect it.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column reflecting on former IJ editor Bill Collins in the wake of his death Nov. 9. I ended the piece with this: “While I knew Bill’s health had been in decline lately, I certainly wasn’t expecting the news I got this past week. And it did not occur to me that…
There’s a big difference between knowing something, understanding it and doing something about it.
I am on the floor petting Hazel, our Chocolate Lab. Everything about standing up hurts.
Many of us will have luxuries this holiday season that some people seldom experience: Food will be plentiful.
The fix has been in by members of the S.C. House for a long time. For months, they’ve been actors in a theatrical drama of their own creation to make it look like newly redrawn voting districts are fair.
Gratitude is defined as the quality or feeling grateful or thankful.
With the 2022 political season right around the corner, it’s wholly predictable that it’s time for some kind of manufactured moral outrage by a Republican candidate to whip the troops in line.
Since Nov. 22, 1921, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has provided a final resting place for the World War I Unknown Soldier, and three crypts contain the remains of Unknown Solders representing World War II, the Korean War, with an empty crypt dedicated to honoring our nation’s missing. Scul…
The subject of empathy and seeking its understanding can be an all-consuming task. I’d like to think that I succeed more often than I fail but an honest assessment reveals that I often struggle and need to do better. It is helpful to look at its classic definition and then examine some recen…
My daughter, Anna Grace Cross, is a senior at the Governor’s School of Agriculture at John de la Howe in McCormick. This is her second year attending the school and she will be part of the first graduating class.
