Boeing lifts the Lowcountry

Thursday, July 9, 12 00 a.m.
Boeing's decision to buy out a supplier's manufacturing plant in North Charleston offers the tantalizing prospect of a major new industrial operation with hundreds of new jobs. The Seattle-based company is considering sites for a second assembly line to speed up production of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft.     Read More

Ayatollah vs. ayatollah

Thursday, July 9, 12 00 a.m.
In Iran it is now ayatollah against ayatollah. The ones with the guns are likely to win, but their moral authority has been severely damaged. There is an ongoing revolution within the Islamic revolution, with no certain outcome.     Read More

Hatch wanders out of bounds

Thursday, July 9, 12 00 a.m.
Early this year, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, told colleagues, "Our liberty depends on limited government." Lately, he's applied that worthy concept to timely alarms about a virtual federal takeover of health care.     Read More

Robert Strange McNamara

Wednesday, July 8, 12 00 a.m.
His name will be associated always with the Vietnam War, a war that was America's longest and most controversial, a war that took the lives of 58,000 U.S. servicemen. Recruited when president of the Ford Motor Co. by President John F. Kennedy, this former Harvard professor served as secretary of defense from 1961-68. He resigned from that post to become president of the World Bank, which he headed for 13 years.     Read More

There's no freedom to litter

Wednesday, July 8, 12 00 a.m.
Who could blame Folly Beach if it outlaws drinking alcohol on the beach? It is intolerable for the city and residents to have to spend money and time picking up mounds of empty beer containers left by inconsiderate slobs.     Read More

Rail plan for Noisette, Clemson site won't work

Monday, July 6, 12 00 a.m.
Now that recent legislative skirmishes over port rail lines have ended, it's time to take a hard look at the idea of building intermodal rail facilities and rail lines on the Noisette and Clemson properties at the northern end of the old Navy Base. This idea is simply unworkable because of numerous legal impediments.     Read More

Scouting has the power to help boys become solid citizens

Thursday, July 2, 12 00 a.m.
We have little time to get it right, making boys into good men and thereby good fathers and citizens. The interlude between Fathers Day and Independence Day is a worthy time to pause and reflect upon how we make "keystone" citizens in America — ones able to hold up the arch of democracy.     Read More

S.C. needs undistracted governor

Monday, June 29, 12 00 a.m.
The question for South Carolina citizens to ask is not "Should Mark Sanford resign as governor?" The real question is "Why shouldn't he resign?"     Read More

Don't hound Sanford into quitting his job

Monday, June 29, 12 00 a.m.
'Will you resign the governorship?" The question hung in the air last week as South Carolina's Mark Sanford departed his press conference last week. It was the only inquiry left unanswered in the 18-minute televised confessional.     Read More

Jenny Sanford shines with strength, dignity

Sunday, June 28, 12 00 a.m.
It's a covenant of the human spirit: anger and disappointment bring compassion and forgiveness. And so it is that eventually we South Carolinians will forgive Mark Sanford. To his credit, our governor's "man up" Wednesday seemed sincere. His contrition was apparent.     Read More