By Andy Brack, editor and publisher The messages from a four-week tour across 10 states are loud and clear: The country is more divided than ever in modern history and the main issue in the midterm elections boils down to Donald Trump, which seems to be just the way he wants it.
By Dr. Robert A. Saul, special to Charleston Currents | “Love thy neighbor.”
This quote from Matthew 22:39 is explicit in its instruction. After the primary commandment to “love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind,” the second commandment states “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
FOCUS: Two harvest festivals set for coming weeks COMMENTARY, Brack: Doing the right thing for South Carolina IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Titan Termite & Pest Control MY TURN, Saul: Reject president’s course of not loving thy neighbor GOOD NEWS: College of Charleston to host discussion on political civility FEEDBACK: Send us your comments … share your thoughts MYSTERY PHOTO: Big, scary […]
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | It’s been pretty easy to vote Republican in South Carolina for the last two decades thanks to the recurring mantra about less government and lower taxes.
But now with President Donald Trump’s European Summer Vacation blitzkrieg across Brussels, London, Scotland and Helsinki, mainstream, old-school Republicans are finding support of the Trump GOP to be somewhat uncomfortable.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | President Donald Trump is the bully in the China shop of global trade. If a new trade war sparked by tariffs on goods from China, Canada, Mexico and our European allies continues, South Carolinians will lose jobs – lots of jobs.
“The South Carolina economy is placed at high risk in the current tough talk about trade,” said economist C. Bruce Yandle, dean emeritus of the Clemson University College of Business and Behavioral Science.
IN THIS ISSUE of Charleston Currents #10.35 | July 9, 2018
FOCUS,: Meet Steve Osborne, interim president of the College of Charleston
COMMENTARY, Brack: Use smarter tools to be tough on trade
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston International Airport
PALMETTO POEM: July 1963
WHAT WE LOVE: Tell us what you love about the Lowcountry
FEEDBACK: Pay attention people to the monster of a highway
MYSTERY PHOTO: Hmmm, looks like a church, but where?
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Briggs v. Elliott
CALENDAR, July 9+: Another great library book sale is around the corner
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | In more ways than one, South Carolina’s fall gubernatorial election will hinge on age.
Republican Gov. Henry McMaster, who nabbed a primary runoff victory in an election much closer than expected, is 71. His Democratic opponent, longtime state Rep. James Smith of Columbia, is a generation younger at age 50.
In the months ahead, expect to hear both talking about experienced leadership, but in different ways.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Americans shouldn’t have to be reminded about core values. But with all that’s roiling in Washington, let’s go back to the beginning.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Those were Thomas Jefferson’s words in the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. They’re filled with a courage found just days earlier on June 28 as South Carolina patriots defended a fort on Sullivan’s Island at the mouth of Charleston harbor from a massive land and sea attack by the British. It was the first major patriot victory of the Revolutionary War. Word spread quickly and gave colonists the courage to declare independence.
IN THIS ISSUE of Charleston Currents #10.33 | June 25, 2018
FOCUS: Frugal ways to have some summertime fun
COMMENTARY, Brack: Don’t be gullible and let your freedoms slip away
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston RiverDogs
GOOD NEWS: New citizens to be sworn in June 26 at Middleton Place
WHAT WE LOVE: Food, beach, history and more
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Where it looks like Halloween all of the time
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Carolina Day recalls Battle of Sullivan’s Island
BROADUS: Georgia Peaches
CALENDAR, June 25+: History Fair set for July 7
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | South Carolina has long been a home for immigrants — from the English, enslaved Africans and French Huguenots to Germans, Irish and, most recently, people from Latin America.
But these days, we shamefully ignore our rich immigrant soup, caught in the guttersnipe of national politics about “those people” who want to come to the United States, just like our forefathers moved here. And just like the grandfather of the forgetful current president, who has embarrassingly branded undocumented immigrants as “animals.”
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