Category Archives: Opinions
Letters to the Editor
Thoughts on fools
Dear Editor,
April is known for April Fools Day. With that said, what is a fool? There are many different definitions out there. Here are some for you, and thoughts as well.
A fool is someone who never learns from his mistakes, unlike others. “Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools speak because because they have to say something.” So said Greek philosopher Plato. That was 3,000 years ago. Some things never change, I guess.
A fool delights in his own words. A fool’s voice is loud and boastful, and his words are many. In the wise person’s heart, seldom is he heard and never are his words counted or ever considered.
Fools think they know more than God Himself. Follow the teachings of a fool and find death,
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What would it take for us to believe?
When the holidays of Christmas and the holy week come around, I cannot help but wonder what the general population thinks about the spiritual significance of these events. I realize that Christians are more involved with these celebrations because of their personal connection with Jesus Christ, but we must also admit there are many different levels of commitment and enthusiasm. In the last few years, the big screen has produced several Christian based movies and however you feel about them, at least someone is trying to relay the life of Christ when He physically walked the earth. I saw the
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Newsprint is under attack
There are two things you need to know about newspapers.
Newspapers are important to community life and democracy. Always have been. We at the 
National Newspaper Association think it is important for all sorts of newspapers to survive for the sake of a free society — the very large and the very small ones, the liberal ones, the conservative ones, the middle-of-the-road ones, the ones with no viewpoint but just important news … all of them. Some are our members. Many are not. We defend them anyway. America needs them like we need oxygen.
The second is that even if your newspaper seems to be “online,” the digital copy that you may count on probably couldn’t exist if there weren’t a printed newspaper behind it. The newspaper in print supports all of the other versions economically. So, if the printed version disappeared, you can’t assume all would be well
Just turn it off and read
Since the bulk of our TV viewing experience is made up of commercials, I’d like to see some better ones. Some years ago, there was a Maxwell House series of commercials about two neighbors who were headed for a relationship. It was entertaining and made sense.
And the Toyota commercial featuring G.I. Joe, Ken and Barbie and a Japanese puppet master was a good one.
But now? I like the Mayhem man on the insurance commercial. It’s briefly entertaining. Other than that, it’s hard to pick anything that even earns a five on a scale of one to 10.
Now this is just a personal thing, but I don’t like clowns or similar advertising icons. At the top of the unfavorite list is the ping-pong ball advertising for Jack in the Box.
I find ping-pong Jack spooky and eerily disturbing.
One of the few commercials for Jack in the Box I found remotely entertaining was the one with
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Courier Letters to the Editor
Not the same as workforce training
Dear Editor,
Education is not the same thing as workforce training … unless, of course, you are a lover of Communist North Korea’s education model. The people in North Korea have no freedom to choose their career. The government assigns people a job “they” decide you fit based on their research of how many people are needed in each industry.
Are we as a state following this direction of a Communist nation by going along with this S.C. House Bill 4596 on competency-based education (CBE)? Will a job here in S.C. only mean where you go to work following the government school order of where they want to place you according
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Shulkin, again
It’s not looking good for Department of Veterans Affairs chief David Shulkin to continue in his job. He’s come under the piercing gaze of the Office of the Inspector General again … never a 
good sign.
First it was traveling on the government dime to Denmark and taking his wife along, thanks to emails doctored by Shulkin’s chief of staff that indicated that the wife’s trip could be paid for. Next came the recent scathing OIG follow-up report on the Washington, D.C., VA Medical Center, which had a laundry list of scary tales. Then, White House chief of staff John Kelly had to tell Shulkin to zip his lip, stop talking to the press
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Report debacle at the VA
It was difficult to pinpoint precisely how the conditions described in this report could have persisted at the Medical Center for so many years.”
Thus begins the conclusion to the full report issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ investigative office, the follow-up to a scathing interim report issued one year ago about deficiencies at the Washington, D.C. VA Medical Center.
The interim report — issued quickly because of the dire
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Courier Letters to the Editor 3-21-18
There are no ‘gray areas’
Dear Editor,
Where have the heroes gone? Seems like yesterday I was a child and looking up to men called heroes. The hero was always young, good-looking, honest, brave, strong and wise. He would never curse and always kept a cool head unless a last resort — laughing in the face of danger, no fear of death whatsoever.
Then the 1960s came along, and there was a character who
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If you can’t live without it
Even though we have had a lot of inclement weather, there is an occasional Wednesday that makes a trip to the flea market seem 
feasible.
And so we went. It was windy and a bit on the chilly side, but still, the sun was shining, and if we bundled up it was bearable unless you turned your face into the wind.
Yes, it was a bit muddy but what’s a little mud when compared to the chance to be outside with the sun shining? And most of the time while walking
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God is more than enough
We’ve all heard the song “He’s got the whole world in His hands,” but did you know this is actually from scripture? We read in Isaiah chapter 40 and verse 12, “Who has calculated the waters in the hollow of His hand, and who has measured the heavens and determined the dust of the earth, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?”
Today, if you feel that your crisis is too much for God to take
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