Category Archives: Opinions
Best advice comes from above
Generally speaking, people are not excited about being told what to do. This is probably one of the greatest reasons why the world rejects the Bible and the ways of God.
In fact, it’s rare to find anyone that is excited about taking advice, even good advice. Think about yourself for a moment. How often do you read God’s Word or hear a message and come away saying, “that’s a great idea, and I am going to incorporate and apply this truth into my life!”
When it comes to wise people trying to give us counsel, I suggest we at least listen, because when we consider the strengths and expertise of others, we are being given an excellent opportunity to glean wisdom. When is the last time you heard someone say they
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Courier Letters to the Editor
Saitta ‘spot on’ in letter
Dear Editor,
Re: Alex Saitta’s letter to the editor on Wednesday, Dec. 4. — spot on!
When are we going to fight back, stop worrying about getting some bad press, stop apologizing for promoting healthy lifestyles, etc.?
Conservatives had better stop “rolling over and playing dead” before it is too late!
Mayor Roy C. Stoddard
Six Mile
Remember to keep the Christ in Christmas
Dear Editor,
Hard to believe it’s Christmas again. My how time flies when you get older.
When I was a child, it seemed my birthday came once every two years and Christmas every five. There were two
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Courier Letters to the Editor 12-4-19
Our leaders’ obligation to stand up
Dear Editor,
I am sure many saw the news stories on WYFF 4, the State or the New York Times where Pickens Elementary School had a character-building event, dividing into boy and girl groups. A lecturer from Clemson University got wind of it and complained the event wasn’t gender neutral and was harmful to the girls. TV news came a-knocking, and the school district apologized, saying the school wrongly “reinforced some gender stereotypes.”
Good grief.
The woman was not a teacher at the school nor anywhere in the school district. She is a lecturer in industrial engineering, not a professional in early childhood education. She doesn’t have a child in the school, didn’t attend the event and just read a blurb about it on Facebook.
How did she pass as a credible source, igniting this story in the first place? Well, she was touting a point of view
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Sleeping, where? All alone?
How does a 6-year-old boy keep from crying when he is assigned to another bedroom in the house? A bedroom where he will be totally alone.
Well, I was that 6-year-old boy, and I was overjoyed. If I had known how to dance the jig, I would have been a dancing fool, as they say.
I just knew that my older sisters and possibly some of my older brothers would have a field day watching me cry. They would never have let me live that down. But I fooled all of them.
Through the first six years of my life, my three sisters and I slept in our parents’ bedroom. My two older sisters slept in their own bed. I slept with my Daddy, and my baby sister slept with our mother. A virtual
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Russia doesn’t really love us
We were watching the evening news on our black-and-white TV. The Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had begun, Radio Free Europe was broadcasting behind the iron curtain and John F. Kennedy was 
president.
The Berlin Wall was dividing the city of Berlin, separating free Germans from those living under those under the thumb of communism.
Nikita Khrushchev was premier of the Soviet Union, and he was coming to America.
We knew that the Soviet Union was an oppressive power and a threat to America.
Khrushchev appeared at the United Nations in New York, and when a representative from the Philippines made a protest of communism, Khrushchev took off
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The joy of getting old, part 3
Editor’s note: This is the continuation of a column that has run over the last two weeks.
I have noticed lately that when talking to my grandchildren about having to work so hard as a kid or having to walk to school in a foot of snow, they immediately yawn and start searching for their iPod. This is so disturbing to my ego that I just want to retreat to my closet and count my shirts or shine my shoes, if I can retrieve my old shoeshine kit from the garbage.
At a recent routine visit to my cardiologist, he noted that I looked a little pale. I responded that only yesterday my ophthalmologist, my dentist, my urologist, my neurologist and my dermatologist had all said the very
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Courier Letters to the Editor 11-27-19
Be thankful for all you have
Dear Editor,
November is when we think of Thanksgiving. We were brought up to believe that the Pilgrims were the first settlers in America. Actually, there were many here before the Pilgrims landed in 1620. The French Huguenots were in Florida in 1562. That’s more than 50 years ahead of the Pilgrims. Settlers prior to the Pilgrims died from the weather or unfriendly Indians. The Huguenots lost Florida to the Spanish.
Unlike the story that says that the Pilgrims had turkey for Thanksgiving, they actually had deer and vegetables from their crops.
The Indians did participate in the feast, contributing deer, too. But of the 102 Pilgrims who came over from
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The joy of getting old, part 2
Editor’s note: This is the continuation of a column that began in last week’s issue.
When old friends drop by for an occasional visit, they often pick up my binoculars from beside my easy chair and ask if they are new. I innocently answer “No, I use them to read the football scores as they scroll across the bottom of my TV screen”. I explain that I must get a new television, since the screen has dimmed to the point that I can hardly read the fine print.
My grandchildren are the joy of my life. I truly love to see them and play with them. I am often mystified as to why some of them seem to be growing up so fast. In the not-so-distant past, I was able to outrun all of them. I could catch and toss them in the air with ease. Now, by the time I can get my recliner up to launching speed to propel me from its comforting grip, they are well beyond my grasp and running headlong for the street. Not only do I have trouble remembering their names, I
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What seniors need for winter
Where are three things we seniors need to get through a cold winter: flashlights, insulated mittens and space blankets.
Check your battery and flashlight supply and stock up on what you need. One of the big-box stores has small flashlights, about 4 inches long, for $1, and they come with three AAA batteries. (At that price it’s cheaper to buy new flashlights than the batteries that go in them.) While they won’t light up your whole house (20 lumens), they are small enough to carry in a pocket and get you from room to room if the power goes out. Keep a few of them scattered around the house: kitchen counter, dining-room table, nightstand and right inside the
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How not to spend $1.8B in new SC revenue: tax cuts
When tax collections dropped during the Great Recession, it didn’t mean S.C. tax rates were too low; it meant we were going through a recession. The Legislature didn’t raise taxes; it cut spending.
Yet today, when our unemployment rate is at an all-time low and our economy is expanding, the same leaders who were applauding that approach a decade ago are saying that robust revenue growth means we need to cut taxes.
We don’t disagree that some tax rates are too high — others probably are too low — and that our overall tax system is overdue for an overhaul. But saying that revenue growth in a good economy means we need to cut taxes makes no more sense
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