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In these days of rampant virtue signaling, politicians, corporations and socially wired individuals all try to convince you that they care the most about doing the right thing. Alas, while we’ve all been recovering from the COVID-19 crisis, plenty of old-fashioned grifters have seized the day.
The theme for the Aiken Chamber of Commerce’s 106th annual celebration was new horizons.
This year is not yet one-third over, yet measles cases in the United States are on track to be the worst since a massive outbreak in 2019. At the same time, anti-vaccine activists are recklessly sowing doubts and encouraging vaccine hesitancy. Parents who leave their children unvaccinated ar…
Spring is a traditional time for cleaning.
Congress eliminated parole from the federal criminal justice system in 1984, but it didn’t completely do away with post-release supervision. About 3 of every 4 people leaving federal prison remain under supervision, often for years, and often for no good reason.
As cars go electric and get more technologically advanced, their interiors are increasingly being built around prominent dashboard touch screens.
The rhetorical war between the right and the left over the future of America’s safety net programs for its seniors is getting hotter as the presidential election nears.
As if to prove that every rule has an exception, the usually dysfunctional Republican-majority House of Representatives has at least one sensible piece of bipartisan legislation on its record: In December, it passed a health care measure called the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act on a 320-71 vote.
Like most presidential budgets before it, President Biden’s fiscal 2025 tax and spending blueprint is more of a political statement than an actual legislative proposal. Basically, it’s a reelection pitch straight from the “Middle Class Joe” playbook he ran on in 2020: raise taxes on the rich…
The name Einstein has long been synonymous with genius, but it goes back to a man and his equation, E = mc². In his lifetime, Albert Einstein was the world’s most famous man and most famous Jew and most famous refugee (the last two being connected, as he had to flee his native Germany when t…
You could almost hear palms smacking onto foreheads all over the techier corners of the internet this week, after a Google artificial intelligence program began generating pictures of Black founding fathers, a female Pope and other notions that would exist only in the most fringe-progressive…
Helping stranded motorists on the side of the road should not be one of America’s most lethal jobs, but it is.
Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide and mob boss Whitey Bulger’s murder both made headlines as shocking failures of the federal prison system. But the shortcomings that led to these famous men’s deaths weren’t the exception — they were the rule.
The federal government had supposedly made it much easier to apply for college financial aid. Except there was a glitch and students could not access the new online tool they needed. Applications were delayed by months and the numbers of students seeking aid plunged.
Contrary to the popular refrain, video never really did kill the radio star. Electric vehicles, however, might do the job. The question is whether Congress should accelerate the process.
The glimmer of hope that Congress might pass a bipartisan border-security bill has been extinguished, at least for now. In killing immigration reforms that their party has long supported — and that are now far less likely to become law — Republicans have demonstrated their lack of interest i…
If Democrats believe Donald Trump is an existential threat to American democracy, why do they insist on sending a weakened 81-year-old Joe Biden into battle against him? That question became a bit more urgent last week.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last week took responsibility for not notifying the White House when he was hospitalized at the beginning of January, an important first step in rebuilding trust with President Joe Biden, Congress and the American people.
Bamberg County native Nikki Haley got more than 40 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s GOP presidential primary in New Hampshire, but it wasn’t Republicans getting Haley within 11 points of winner and former President Donald Trump.
For the air traveler, these have been worrying weeks.On Jan. 2, a Japan Airlines flight collided with a coast guard aircraft on the runway at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, killing five aboard the latter plane. Three days later, a fuselage panel blew off an Alaska Airlines flight from Oregon, caus…
The flood of people crossing the southern U.S. border will have a far-reaching impact on the country. Not the least of the problems is the criminal element involved in smuggling people.
One day after the holiday honoring the civil rights leader who fought to end legalized racism, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley told Fox News that America has “never been a racist country.”
Of course it should never have taken more than three years and the threat of a lawsuit for the FDA to approve Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan to import prescription drugs in bulk from Canada.
It’s an election year, so every economic report is going to be filtered through the lens of political benefit. President Biden thus celebrated Friday’s Labor Department report that employers added a solid 216,000 jobs in December, but below the top line there are signs of a softening labor m…
The presidential election year has arrived. South Carolina will again play a pivotal role with Democratic and Republican primaries early in the cycle for both parties.
The number of Americans over the age of 65 is rising quickly. In the past century, it has grown at nearly five times the rate of the rest of the population and is now approaching 60 million people. That includes about 15.5 million added since 2010. This is good news for the widening communit…
This editorial, written by Francis P. Church, first appeared in the New York Sun on Sept. 21, 1897. It runs in the Aiken Standard this year in honor of Christmas.
While the press frets about Donald Trump establishing the Fourth Reich, President Biden is rewriting laws to arrogate sweeping power for himself. On Thursday the Administration threatened to seize patents of drugs and other innovations, which could be its most economically destructive execut…
Given the never-ending partisan brawl over the southern U.S. border, it is not surprising that American voters would believe that the United States faces a wave of migration with little precedent in the history of the world.
On Tuesday, Elise Stefanik, the U.S. representative for New York’s 21st Congressional District, posed the same question to the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania, proxies all for America’s liberal intellectual elite.
Just in time for the holiday season, South Carolinians have some bad news on obesity.
It has been a miracle year for the U.S. economy. Inflation has plummeted without triggering a recession. Many experts said that could not happen without widespread layoffs and a downturn. The economy has gained 2.4 million jobs so far this year, and growth has accelerated, with an annualized…
A federal appeals court panel handed down a decision last week that would hobble enforcement of the Voting Rights Act by holding that only the U.S. attorney general, not aggrieved citizens, can file lawsuits to enforce one of the landmark civil rights law’s key protections. The Supreme Court…
More than three years out from the pandemic’s onset, when America’s office workers suddenly had to do their jobs from their homes, a substantial majority of those employees have no desire to turn the clock back to 2019.
His timbre was just one reason I always looked forward to hearing Henry Kissinger, who died this week after living a full century, expound on international relations. It was gravelly and deep, and grew only more so over the years. But it wasn’t just the voice. It was his unique accent, eccen…
Winter Weather Preparedness Week in South Carolina runs Nov. 26 through Dec. 2. While hurricanes and flooding may be considered more the cause for preparation than winter, cold weather poses threats even in a subtropical climate known for heat.
Republicans have one thing right about the border: The Biden administration’s strategy to keep asylum seekers from flocking to the United States is not working.
Open enrollment is the window of time at the year's end when consumers make a critical health care decision — which health insurance plan to buy for the coming year to cover themselves and their families.
The New York Times on the COVID learning loss:
It’s hard to remember a time that has felt more tumultuous. We’ve barely arrived on the other side of a pandemic that both put the world on pause and divided our country. A band of mostly white hooligans swarmed our Capitol building, attempting to overthrow a legitimate presidential election…
More than 114,000 Americans are on the national wait list for an organ transplant. In 2022, although 42,000 patients received a transplant, over 68,000 additional patients were added to the list.
Given Donald Trump’s stubborn standing atop polls of Republican voters, there may be no more meaningless exercise in futility right now than even talking about the rest of the GOP presidential field, let alone tentatively backing one candidate in that field.
Congratulations are in order for Teddy Milner.
Washington seems determined to ignore the country’s rapidly worsening fiscal picture, but sooner or later policymakers will be forced to pay attention. When they do, they’ll find that changes to Social Security are unavoidable.
Republican candidates are trying to capitalize on discontent with “Bidenomics.” Despite strong job gains, cooling inflation, blockbuster third-quarter growth at an annualized rate of 4.9 percent and no recession in sight, Americans tell pollsters President Biden is doing a poor job on the ec…
Last week’s horrific shooting in Maine that left 18 dead and 13 others wounded has already raised the questions that have become familiar after mass casualty events. What motivated the suspect, 40-year-old Robert Card, to go on his rampage in a Lewiston bowling alley and bar? Why was the U.S…
Ask any parent about the time their kids spend on mobile devices, and you’ll likely hear the same refrain: It’s too much. Excessive use of smartphones and social media is linked to rising rates of teenage depression and self-harm, while also damaging students’ academic performance and exacer…
As powerful lobbies go, few have more clout than the Realtors. But the cartel faces a major legal challenge in a federal jury trial that started Oct. 16 in a class action against its rules that raise the cost of buying and selling homes (Burnett v. National Association of Realtors).
The news that David Jameson is retiring as president and CEO of the Aiken Chamber of Commerce came as a little bit of a surprise.
The criminal fraud trial of cryptocurrency bad boy Sam Bankman-Fried got underway last week, while at the same time, the crypto crowd went missing in action at the Futures Industry Association conference in Chicago.
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Saturday morning and afternoon action/delay followed by more action/delay in the House of Representatives and Saturday afternoon and evening action/delay followed by more action/delay in the Senate (and a pre-midnight signature from President Joe Biden with less than a hour to spare) kept th…
If a constitutional provision disqualifying Donald Trump from the presidency sounds too good to be true, that’s because it probably is.
