Big questions remain about what exactly happened in the 2020 election.
Don’t judge us, but my wife and I decorated our house for Christmas last weekend. Yes, we know that was before Thanksgiving.
Recently, the nation's leading infectious disease expert and Bummercloud in Chief, Dr. Anthony Fauci, expressed concerns over families gathering together for a traditional Thanksgiving celebra…
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, that uniquely American holiday when we come together with family and friends (virtually if necessary) to marvel at the blessings of life in this great land.
I'm a conservative, and I guess I should be writing a column about my great distress resulting from this election. But I'm not going to write that column, because it's not what I feel.
Here we go again.
Well, the 2020 elections are over and the American people have spoken – even if not as loudly and clearly as some people would have liked; there was no landslide. As of this writing, the Democ…
In this current era of no compulsory military service, Veterans Day takes on personal meaning to fewer and fewer Americans.
AUGUSTA — My favorite week of the year is winding down.
On Monday night, Aiken City Council demonstrated a breathtaking act of foresight and leadership by authorizing of the purchase of 2,500 contiguous, forested acres on Mason Branch Road. Known a…
Finally, the 2020 election is over (more or less). Election controversy still rages, but there is little doubt our next president will be Joe Biden. This election was one like none other in ou…
Are you ready for the Masters Tournament? I think I am.
My decision to vote for Donald Trump should come as no surprise to regular readers of these columns. Although I try to stay in the moderate lane, I find myself landing on the conservative side…
During the course of the COVID-19 crisis, an ongoing, and very legitimate, national debate has continued about the wisdom of lockdowns.
OK, it’s time for a confession: I didn’t vote in the 2016 election.
This past Monday evening, we watched a remarkable scene: the U.S. Senate vote to approve Judge Amy Coney Barrett as the nation’s 115th Supreme Court justice and her ceremonial swearing-in the …
I recall several presidential elections ago, an elementary school teacher wrote a newspaper column about a mock election he held in his class.
Now that schools have been opened in a variety of ways in South Carolina and across the country, we are learning more about the risk of COVID-19 in a school setting. In South Carolina, as expe…
During the month of October, we often see and decorate with fun or funny scary things in preparation for Halloween. But litter is not fun or funny. It is definitely a scary monster that needs …
Every 13 minutes, a woman dies of breast cancer. Where is the outrage?
They say a picture can be worth a thousand words. If so, the one we ran on the front page of Tuesday’s Aiken Standard certainly fits that description.
This month marks the 70th anniversary of the Savannah River Site. Looking back, the site has accomplished a remarkable amount of essential national defense missions to safeguard our nation and…
For 70 years the people of Aiken and Barnwell counties have served our country through work at Savannah River Site on some of the most important national security missions. Through SRS, our co…
Democrats insist that our nation’s handling to COVID-19 has been a dismal failure, the worst in the world. They vie with one another to find the perfect adjective – botched, bungled, inept, ev…
Like two banks of a river, there are two sides to every story. Delving into the facts and opinions surrounding the Savannah River and the rock weir project is like jumping headfirst into turbu…
It seems obvious that the U.S. needs new leadership. We have a golden opportunity for that when we vote on Nov. 3; waiting until 2024 may be too late. Joe Biden, former U.S. senator and former…
It’s tempting to look at the 2020 presidential election as a popularity contest, a choice between the nice guy and the mean guy. Democrats prefer to paint it that way. Donald Trump is an abras…
New York City is becoming an economic basket case.
It’s funny how we react when we hear about a celebrity death.
This column puts forward perspectives on several questions, given the remote delivery of public education necessary to navigate around COVID-19.
Newspapers are on my mind first thing in the morning.
National Cheeseburger Day was a recent event, and it prompted me to go out and get a cheeseburger. Newspapers are far more important to recognize, and they aren’t as fattening.
President Donald Trump just rolled out his new "Black Economic Empowerment Platinum Plan."
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Decades ago, when many Americans began to question our presence in Vietnam, the Department of Defense constructed an explanation of what we were trying to do there. Our mission, they explained…
Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader, says, "Our No. 1 goal must be to communicate the stakes of this Supreme Court fight to the American people." He continued, "nothing is off the table."
During my career, I’ve had the opportunity to interview some of the biggest names in golf. My previous position in Augusta opened all kinds of doors involving the Masters Tournament and August…
Recently, I spent some time in Milton, Delaware, a small town next to Lewes, Delaware, which is another small town. Lewes prides itself on being “The First Town in the First State.” Delaware w…
Sept. 15 marks the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month. Unfortunately, part of that heritage is a greater risk of heart disease and stroke. During this month, we aim to educate our community,…
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman observed in a column he wrote in 1996 that "no two countries that both have a McDonald's have ever fought a war against each other."
They say time flies when you’re having fun. If that’s true, then the past year has been a blur.
Over the next two years, several hundred acres of land near Early Branch, South Carolina will be transformed into greenhouses for farming. Using recycled rainwater and high-tech climate contro…
Each year at this time, horrifying images of the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001 come rushing back – planes crashing into the twin towers, the raging infernos and thundering collapses that trapp…
I don’t know which scenario is worse: getting ready to go on vacation or coming back from vacation.
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I have returned with some regularity over the years to compare what is going on in our country today to what was going on in the 1850s, the years preceding the Civil War.
I’ve been watching political conventions on TV for a long time. My first was 1952 – Eisenhower vs. Stevenson – and I remember it well. I was 8 years old.
The 2020-2021 school year is the year of transformational teachers and educational leaders. Education leaders throughout the nation are to be commended for coming up with safe ways to continue…
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