Bias

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55050407104540263992012-02-16T14:47:18.179-08:00BiasCommentary from the pages of The Progressive Journal, located in Pageland, S.C.The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.comBlogger981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-72336852137331933412008-04-09T08:52:00.000-07:002008-04-09T08:53:18.020-07:00Women, Politics and Posturing: It Can Kill Ya

Don’t think, for a skinny minute, this is an easy job. Writing politics is war. It’s dangerous out here, what with bullets flying, incoming mortar rounds and all. I lost my flak jacket and helmet the other day and had to low-crawl to my computer. With my youngest grandbaby on my hip. But I did it. I’m one tough woman, willing to go where few men are brave enough to…Okay, okay. Maybe no one was

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-86308659936245984012008-03-24T12:04:00.001-07:002008-03-24T12:04:35.398-07:00‘Just the Facts’ on next week’s referendum

Many of us may remember the TV show Dragnet. Joe Friday was famous for saying, “Just the facts.” I think these words are very appropriate when we evaluate whether we should keep the sewage treatment system as-is, or to transfer it to Chesterfield Rural Water.So here are the facts,1. The Town of Pageland’s current sewage treatment plants are nearing capacity.2. These sewage treatment plants and

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-71251018613687519012008-03-24T12:02:00.000-07:002008-03-24T12:04:05.030-07:00Letters to the Editor

‘... who else will be connecting to it in the future?’This letter is in response to your Guest Editorial in the March 4th issue of The Progressive Journal. My first question is who made Mr. Hough an expert on what is best for the Town of Pageland. Mr. Hough stated that constructing a pipeline from the North Carolina state line to Alligator Rural Water & Sewage Company’s new sewer treatment

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-60021411476172014432008-03-10T13:03:00.000-07:002008-03-10T13:06:14.519-07:00Letter to the Editor

This letter is in response to your Guest Editorial in the March 4th issue of The Progressive Journal. My first question is who made Mr. Hough an expert on what is best for the Town of Pageland. Mr. Hough stated that constructing a pipeline from the North Carolina state line to Alligator Rural Water & Sewage Company’s new sewer treatment facility in McBee will be very expensive. But, it is far

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-48347406652855778912008-03-06T09:14:00.000-08:002008-03-06T09:16:03.739-08:00Vote ‘Yes’ in the March 25 referendum

Pageland citizens will vote March 25 on an issue which will determine whether our town will grow or die. Your vote will also affect how much your sewer bill will cost you for many years to come.A “Yes” vote on the referendum question is the only way to ensure that Pageland will have adequate sewer capacity for future growth and the creation of new jobs. It is also the only way to guarantee that

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-11670162242049599052008-03-03T11:41:00.001-08:002008-03-03T11:41:37.338-08:00The wages of war? No sweat

Houston, we have a problem.And Dubya has finally owned up to it. The economy is not so good, folks. We’re making less money, paying more for everything from soup to gas, Wall Street has the flu and folks all over the country are losing their homes.In an interview with NBC, George W. denied there is any connection between the Iraq War and the faltering economy. Zero. Zip. Nada. We can afford our

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-12172826251336756422008-03-03T11:40:00.000-08:002008-03-03T11:41:03.675-08:00Pageland history needs to be protected

I am immersed in Pageland’s history right now, so much that I have to take occasional breaks to find out what’s happening in the here and now. I’ve got a century worth of spotty documentation that I can never possibly finish reading and, even if I could, these newspapers would tell only a fraction of this town’s story.And it is most certainly a story. An epic, even, with re-occurring characters

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-12459443088029224182008-02-20T06:12:00.000-08:002008-02-20T07:55:36.937-08:00Let’s get Mungo into the Hall of Fame

I came across something interesting last week while adding a new “wing” to our online content. There is a quiet online movement to get Van Lingle Mungo inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.For those of you who think Mungo is nothing more than an odd street name, here’s a brief biography of the man. Born in 1911, Mungo was a pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1931 to 1941. He averaged 16

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-11120272418464907572008-02-11T10:30:00.000-08:002008-02-11T10:32:26.554-08:00Letters to the Editor

Courthouse a symbol of shameI am an African American man and I just moved back to this area. I was upset to see Councilwoman Amy Brown and Councilwoman Burnette Wilson on a picture in your newspaper in front of the Old County Courthouse with a smile on their faces to support a building that held the first succession meeting before the Civil War. I don’t think that they should support that

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-1212691564631112892008-02-11T10:29:00.000-08:002008-02-11T10:30:31.648-08:00Letter to the Editor

Is Love at First Sight True?It is true. My name is Christy. I fell in love with a boy named Derrick when I was 14 and he was 16 years old. I used to go with my mom to work every day that summer just to see him. My mother worked with his father. The year was 1994. Well, we dated for 2 days and then we got married on May 9, 2000. We have been married for almost 8 years now. We have a total

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-72544952999509777662008-02-11T10:28:00.001-08:002008-02-11T10:29:17.538-08:00The secret love affair between Obama and the Republican party

At first glance at the title to this piece you might assume this is a hit piece designed to belittle or discount the efforts of Barack Obama. You would be wrong. This is about a secret so damaging that it could rip apart families and friends. A secret so powerful that most dare not speak it for fear it will heap ridicule and shame on the head of the fool that spoke it. I however am going to

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-75811109021184469122008-02-04T06:19:00.001-08:002008-02-04T06:19:44.811-08:00The mayor’s battle against an informed public continues

A frustrating part of the newspaper business is that nobody seems to understand how journalism really works. There’s an unwritten rule — presumably taught in journalism school — that all newspapers are bound by a collection of ethics and principals that are universal.Sadly, that is not the case, though many continue to give this myth life. It’s not our job to be impartial, and if you think it is

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-70976411954231506572008-01-24T11:17:00.000-08:002008-01-24T11:19:04.421-08:00The House that John Built

What person, with a heart and a Bible, doesn’t love the story of John Edwards’ rise from a dirt poor South Carolina mill worker’s kid to a brilliant career as a lawyer who battled big business and the health care/insurance industry on behalf of ordinary Americans like you and me? Who wouldn’t celebrate the success, socially, financially and politically, of such a Southerner; one who fought his

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-3177484657724332212008-01-17T07:12:00.000-08:002008-01-17T07:14:31.803-08:00South Carolina and the Audacity of Hope?

“...I’ll tell you who I’m voting for. I’m voting for Hillary Clinton. We need to get Bill Clinton back in the White House. Barack Obama’s a fine young man but he [has] no business running for president...No way is any black man getting elected president in the United States of America--not in my lifetime and not in yours! If he gets elected there’ll be rioting in the streets the likes of which [

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-44558734037954413492008-01-04T12:40:00.000-08:002008-01-04T12:46:17.063-08:00Bad winners, worse losers

I received a handful of e-mails from presidential campaigns, but not as many as I would have thought. We get flooded with press releases from candidates, almost all of them irrelevant to our readers. Such as a message from John McCain’s mother wishing him a happy birthday.If you ever wonder why reporters are twitchy, unpredictable creatures, read the statements below concerning the recent Iowa

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-22170350775876503982008-01-03T08:53:00.000-08:002008-01-03T08:55:43.475-08:00Bugged by a Ron Paul supporter

An average day in my home office begins with a flood of messages. Sixty or more of them, all politics. My inbox is rarely empty and most of the incoming messages demand attention I’m not willing to give them. Folks want me to know who they’re supporting for president in ‘08, who they love, who they loathe. And why. And why don’t I write something nice about their guy, anyway? The delete key is my

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-87143821613734877992007-12-28T12:12:00.000-08:002007-12-28T12:13:14.373-08:00Happy ‘Holidays’ from Bill O’Reilly?

Bright lights, parades, Santa, creches with sweet little baby Jesus smiling up at his adoring mother. Giggling children, wild with anticipation. It’s that wonderful time of the year--or it ought to be. For some of us the dreaded War on Christmas goes on. It’s getting to be sort of like the other one--the Iraq quagmire we love to hate--we just can’t seem to find a way out of it. Faux News’ Bill O’

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-69947723163846334652007-12-21T09:03:00.001-08:002007-12-21T09:03:51.210-08:00When Pageland grows, where will you be?

With Pageland’s proximity to Charlotte the growth is coming. It doesn’t really matter what you want. Pageland is going to grow.Pageland and Chesterfield do have some say. The town and county get to either facilitate the growth or stand in the way of it.Scenario OnePageland elects responsible leaders that are pro smart growth. These leaders anticipate problems and look for opportunities. In

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-59535170329472017222007-12-21T07:38:00.000-08:002007-12-21T07:40:55.759-08:00Which branch of government should have more power?

By Vincent SheheenFor more than a decade, our great State has engaged in a repetitiveargument over which branch of government should have more power, thelegislative branch or the executive branch? This contentious argumentabout the balance of power misses the point and too often degeneratesinto fruitless bickering. The real point is that neither brancheffectively fulfills its role in

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-36067990913037425292007-12-18T08:41:00.000-08:002007-12-18T10:56:39.822-08:00Dear Hillary, What are you thinking?

How desperate can a few sagging poll numbers make a presidential candidate who tells us she’s not only the toughest, most experienced Democrat in the race, but the smartest?Apparently desperate enough to drill past the scurrilous innuendo and mine for the rock-bottom ridiculous allegation. If you can’t unearth a 24 carat scandal in Senator Obama’s past, invent one. He “seems to have character

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-35678548181114923812007-12-18T08:40:00.000-08:002007-12-18T08:50:42.974-08:00When Head Meets Wall

(Or ‘I tried to reason with Carroll Faile and now I need a Goody’s Powder’)Some of you are expecting a “fire and brimstone” kind of column this week, especially those of you who attended last week’s Pageland Town Council meeting.I don’t know that I can deliver, or that I can convey the sense of rage I saw in the audience at last week’s meeting. And it will be difficult to explain the damage done

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-76830649409843511342007-12-10T12:43:00.000-08:002007-12-10T12:45:05.999-08:00The U.S. Senate Needs a Grinch this Christmas

Dear DeMint Team:Well, it finally happened.We got our first snowfall on Capitol Hill last week. The view outside my office window was picturesque and serene. I thought, just for a second, about how stately this building is and how honored I am to be a United States Senator.Then my staff walked in with news that Democrats were planning to slip through more earmark-laden pork barrel spending these

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-18736514473190466152007-12-07T13:52:00.001-08:002007-12-07T13:52:30.497-08:00Déjà vu all over again

Several years ago the Town of Pageland faced a problem with its water quality. The Town of Pageland could continue to pour money into their old system or purchase water from Chesterfield Rural Water. The same players then on the Town Council, that are now opposed to having Alligator Rural Water take over the town’s sewage system, were adamantly opposed to purchasing water from Chesterfield

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-22349165951808888192007-12-07T13:51:00.001-08:002007-12-07T13:51:24.680-08:00Arguing and fighting is a waste of time

If a white person uses the N-word, it’s time to pull together and rally for our people. Yet our people are on the streets are killing their own. Like a lot of people I have been in a situation where I wanted to go out and give someone a piece of my mind, and there has been a time I felt like beating the sense out of someone, but I didn’t attempt either. The devil lost those rounds. One wrong will

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-29743309388908794452007-12-05T14:12:00.000-08:002007-12-05T16:28:20.761-08:00A Good Race for the GOP Finish Line? It’s Debatable.

Wednesday, Nov.28. Another GOP debate. I watched. Can’t help myself. It’s rather like going to Darlington or Charlotte for a NASCAR event. I settle in my seat, a drink handy, and wait for the green flag to drop.What’s so addictive about these debates? Why the NASCAR comparison? It’s the certainty that some super-drivers are going to bump-draft the others, some are going to spin, some are going to

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-73626702540068494082007-11-28T08:56:00.000-08:002007-11-28T09:01:13.504-08:00The Half-truth, the Untruth and Consequences

“I would never vote for Barack Obama. Never. He’s a Muslim!” He won’t put his hand over his heart for the National Anthem. He won’t wear a flag pin, either.Yeah ... and according to another deliberate smear campaign, one waged by the Bush camp in 2000, John McCain had “fathered an illegitimate black child...” Who’d vote for a guy with the morals of an alley cat?The “whisper campaign”, the rumor

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-47371955979896254142007-11-27T07:50:00.001-08:002007-11-27T07:50:42.004-08:00Not everyone is happy ‘as is’

The Chesterfield County Economic Development office has a good problem. Phones are ringing and we are able to provide hope to the people that are calling. People (mostly from Pageland) are calling in hopes of a job with National Choice Bakery. That’s why recent comments about not needing or not wanting jobs in Pageland leaves me dumbfounded.This leads to a point. What has been noticeable about

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-2426186822886678782007-11-26T08:06:00.000-08:002007-11-26T08:07:41.471-08:00Something stinks, and it’s not the sewer

Whether they care or not, members of Pageland Town Council lost the town about $500,000 in new taxes during the Nov. 8 meeting.Our “leaders” are at odds over how to handle mandated improvements to the town’s wastewater treatment facilities. On one side of the argument is an articulate, well-researched faction that can make a case and support it with numbers.On the other side of the argument are a

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-90470123479144905372007-11-26T08:03:00.000-08:002007-11-26T08:06:39.123-08:00Ask council why they voted ‘No’

On November 8th your Town Council was provided the findings of what the current cost to provide sewer and an alternative cost should the town decide to have Alligator Water take over the sewer operations for the Town of Pageland.The Town Council voted to do nothing. Why wait?There is no reason. The citizens of Pageland would be better off by making this change to Alligator Water.Why is this

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-9092840170285561922007-11-26T08:02:00.003-08:002007-11-26T08:02:45.475-08:00Councilman should step away from issue

I am writing this letter today as a concerned citizen and former operator of the Town of Pageland Waste Water Treatment Plants.The controversy currently swirling around the Town Council and the entire Town is exactly that-a controversy not meant to be understood by the average citizen.This is the same atmosphere in which the water plant referendum was conducted in 2005. That referendum was

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-24889815197904802602007-11-26T08:02:00.001-08:002007-11-26T08:03:01.830-08:00Odom, Gray deserve our gratitude

I read with interest the article in the November 13, 2007 issue of The Progressive Journal concerning the Pageland Town Council vote against the Alligator Rural Water & Sewer Company Wastewater Treatment Facility. Let me say upfront that Kellahan and Associates Engineers and Surveyors, Inc. of which I am the president, is the design engineering firm for Alligator Rural Water and Sewer Company,

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-34405155785618801112007-11-26T08:01:00.001-08:002007-11-26T08:01:52.950-08:00Mayor’s sewer plan is like a runaway train

To the Citizens of Pageland:Whether you like it or not, you are about to be taken on a bumpy and expensive ride by your mayor. Like the engineer on a runaway train, Mayor Carroll Faile has put Pageland on a collision course that is likely to derail any chance for future job growth. The citizens of Pageland, who are the unsuspecting passengers, will be forced to pay the fare for this costly

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-50113221003835988122007-11-20T09:07:00.000-08:002007-11-20T09:08:54.151-08:00Hughes criticism is unfair, inaccurate

In recent weeks I have read article after article about departing Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes' job performance or lack there of. These articles range between false interpretations of good data to ignorant partisan blather to accurate reporting of the facts without political interpretation. What most have in common is that they recognize the monumental job U/S

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-10372081620296809142007-11-20T08:59:00.000-08:002007-11-20T09:07:14.246-08:00Hail to the Thief

I’ve long wondered what the next new music format would be. I’ve lived through an evolution that included records, 8 track tapes, cassette and compact discs. Science fiction has occasionally tried to visualize this change (I remember an episode of SeaQuest DSV a while back that showed a “future” format that looked like a miniature floppy disc.)I could never have imagined that the new format would

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-53820912444148589122007-11-20T05:58:00.000-08:002007-11-20T05:59:56.051-08:00Selling the reality of journalism to high school students

Holding the Journal’s digital camera, Ryan Schallenberger’s eyes bugged out when he heard the price tag.Already a bit nervous about handling professional newpaperin’ equipment, the Chesterfield High senior showed extra care toting the camera at the middle school where he received on-the-spot photography lessons.I resisted the urge to startle him, in case the practical joke turned costly by me

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-69280939066919223342007-11-16T09:11:00.000-08:002007-11-16T09:12:36.233-08:00Hughes criticism is unfair

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-26944929857287712352007-11-15T06:59:00.000-08:002007-11-15T07:00:17.230-08:00A letter from a very dark place

The following is a letter to be shared with my readers:“I am just a nobody trying to warn anybody about this place that I am in.The time in my life that I so recklessly threw away I am now forced to use positively in a negative situation. Nobody knows how bad I truly feel and to know that the only person that tried to help me, in return, I only hurt (which was my mother). When all this happened

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-88876443021786518782007-11-15T06:49:00.001-08:002007-11-15T06:50:28.878-08:00Any little (South Carolina) boy can be president? Not a chance.

Native son Steven Colbert is a gone goslin’. South Carolina Dems couldn’t get his name off the primary ballot fast enough. In a 13-3 vote, the Democratic Executive Council rejected a Colbert candidacy. The repercussions — for the South Carolina Democratic Party in general and the Obama campaign in particular — are right tawdry.Online howling commenced with a bang bigger that the first shot fired

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-78965704112341092422007-10-25T14:30:00.000-07:002007-10-25T14:40:17.423-07:00Don’t blame me, I voted for Howard the Duck

South Carolina native Stephen Colbert announced last week that he is running for president as both a Democrat and a Republican, and will campaign only in his home state.Colbert is among the Southern-born alums of The Daily Show and used the “fake news” program to springboard into hosting his own show, The Colbert Report. If it sounds strange that the host of a fake talk show is running for

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-72089115913097649682007-10-23T11:20:00.000-07:002007-10-23T11:21:49.259-07:00The Patriots' Lapel Pin Battle: Fighting the Good Fight

Only in 21st century America, land of the soft, spoiled armchair warrior... We've been bogged down in a war with and occupation of Iraq for nearly five years now but, unlike, say, WW II, this nation is not fully engaged. Far from it. We sacrifice nothing. No rationing of sugar or gasoline, no maps on our walls with pins marking the front, no families gathering around the radio every evening for

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-50505198169270560212007-10-11T08:57:00.000-07:002007-10-11T09:01:23.658-07:00Sanford to endorse Giuliani?

FROM THE PALMETTO SCOOP:Rumors are swirling across the Palmetto State that Gov. Mark Sanford, who has until now remained neutral in the race for the White House, will endorse former Mayor Rudy Giuliani in his bid to become the next president. The Palmetto Scoop has been contacted by numerous sources who are reporting a “feeding frenzy” among national and local reporters who are working to confirm

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-56664157841020475872007-10-09T08:32:00.000-07:002007-10-09T08:33:39.735-07:00New media puts spotlight on Burma

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being,

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-46661523220280489812007-09-24T13:37:00.000-07:002007-09-27T09:59:13.158-07:00There are greater evils in the world than baggy trousers

There’s something about baggy pants that really ticks people off.I got a call about a month ago from a man who, while driving through Pageland, called me to complain about kids he saw with their “pants hanging down.” He was really, really angry and suggested the town adopt some kind of ordinance banning this look.Baggy pants were the topic of discussion during last week’s Stop the Violence event

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-73091353666550487912007-09-24T13:29:00.000-07:002007-09-24T13:31:39.167-07:00Heaven’s Scent and Heaven Sent

We’re Americans. We may not know what a “carbon footprint” is, we may not know the difference between a Sunni and a Shi’ite, we may not know why grossly profitable oil companies get subsidies ... but we darn well know our rights. We’ll sue anybody, anywhere, about anything.Eighty-one year old Charles Lewitzke, a proud resident of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is suing the makers of Brut (the men’s

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-61206104022144742102007-09-21T13:24:00.000-07:002007-09-21T13:29:12.049-07:00Congressman Bob Inglis Makes Like a Marketing Maven

(Unedited press release from SCTV.org)Columbia, SC… In an interview on ETV's "The Big Picture on the Radio" Friday, Congressman Bob Inglis, who hails from the Upstate, likened himself to a product for sale when asked about rumors that Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer might run against him next year, when Inglis’ Fourth District seat comes up for grabs.When asked by host Andrew Gobeil what he thought about

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-26189924329424684462007-09-20T06:15:00.000-07:002007-09-20T06:17:52.283-07:00The War and Mixed Messages: A plan for all seasons

The Decider-in-Chief paid another stealth visit to Iraq the first weekend of September. Dressed all in Johnny Cash black, Bush spent six hours there, surrounded by U.S. military, in the immediate neighborhood of a U.S. military base. He liked what he saw from that vantage point: Not a suicide bomber, IED, car bomb or insurgent sniper in sight. It was all good. He could assess the full range of

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-2760262991550431212007-09-19T13:03:00.000-07:002007-09-19T13:04:21.380-07:00Clyburn is the only choice

Columbia SC--South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Carol Fowler today released the following statement on the Senate District 25 special election results:"No matter their eventual candidate, neither Republican can match Bill Clyburn's record of leadership. Rep. Clyburn has served his constituents for 12 years in the State House. A former school principal, he has consistently achieved

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-51832812966453853042007-09-19T13:00:00.000-07:002007-09-19T13:03:36.573-07:00Close the Shoe-Bomber Loophole

To fully appreciate the gift Congress just sent al Qaeda, recall the Christmas season of 2001.On December 22 of that year, American Airlines Flight 63 was somewhere over the Atlantic, carrying 197 passengers from Paris to Miami, when a stewardess noticed a man lighting matches. As strange as it seemed, it looked like he was trying to set his shoelaces on fire. When she tried to stop him, he bit

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-67956754300884738212007-09-19T12:59:00.000-07:002007-09-19T13:00:21.152-07:00Dawson applauds nomination and urges swift confirmation

COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson today released the following statement on the nomination of Judge Michael B. Mukasey to be the 81st Attorney General of the United States:“I applaud President Bush for nominating conservative Judge Michael B. Mukasey to serve as the 81st Attorney General of the United States. Throughout his career, Mukasey has established an

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-83340900838810444142007-09-19T08:18:00.000-07:002007-09-19T08:21:30.925-07:00University of Florida student Tasered at Kerry forum

Here's some interesting video that caught our eye for an obvious reason: we ask questions for a living.

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-66327704826549508802007-09-17T08:45:00.000-07:002007-09-17T08:46:41.138-07:00The Matrix is one business Pageland can afford to lose

You’ll forgive me if I don’t shed a tear for The Matrix.The shooting that took place Sept. 2 was just an exclamation point on an already violent saga. My experience with local police reports over the years turned up two interesting trends — many of the people involved with trouble at the club aren’t from Pageland, and too many of them were underage. The only people that benefited from the

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-66157192062847211172007-09-12T06:27:00.000-07:002007-09-12T12:13:16.342-07:00Jim DeMint questions Gen. David Petraeus

On Sept. 11, U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., questioned Gen. David Petraeus on progress in Iraq and the ability for Iraq to create stability amidst terror–sponsoring regimes Iran and Syria. Below is streaming audio from that session, as provided by DeMint's office.

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-51794526645233118642007-09-10T09:34:00.000-07:002007-09-10T09:37:38.450-07:00Redacted’s timing shows bad taste, judgement

The left knows no shame. Director Brian De Palma in his new movie “Redacted” is trying to convince the American people that our soldiers aren’t good enough to make good sound decisions when the pressure mounts and when things are tough and mistakes are made our troops might resort to raping little girls and murdering families. Well, Mr. De Palma, I agree ... to a point.WHAT?!That is right. I have

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-36021401298481083882007-09-10T09:33:00.000-07:002007-09-10T09:34:06.378-07:00A Midsummer Night’s Scream: another sex scandal

It’s big news. All day, all night. It’s fodder for panels of pundits. Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho) arrested in June by a plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men’s public restroom at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. After Craig spent two minutes peering through the crack in the stall door where the undercover cop sat waiting for solicitation by sex

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-29844990526366458642007-09-05T11:15:00.000-07:002007-09-05T11:43:12.189-07:00Deerly Departed

Few things anger readers like the sight of a dead animal — especially if happens to be a cute animal.Last week, we ran a story about Outdoors Without Limits, a recreational outreach program “committed to help reduce the barriers that prevent disabled people from enjoying the great outdoors.” The founder’s daughter wants to start a chapter in Chesterfield County.Since the program involves hunting,

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-21474009326596002552007-09-04T10:05:00.000-07:002007-09-04T10:07:17.872-07:00Letter to the Editor

Restructuring the Pageland Rescue Squad won’t solve problemsIf you want the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth concerning Pageland Rescue Squad, I will bring it straight to you.Restructuring/rebuilding PRS will not solve the internal problems that plagues this organization. A constant split in the rescue squad has existed since 1964 and it always pits one group against the other.The

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-45812075223220178082007-08-31T08:42:00.000-07:002007-08-31T08:52:39.450-07:00Born Again: the faith-based initiative and Chinese law

Politix Lite. A little political humor is a good thing. Given the current state of affairs in this country, a sense of the ridiculous is even better. You have to go some distance to find a system as convoluted as ours has become. You know-- federal debt is not really such a bad thing when we do it, sure--we’re winning the war, the economy is (really!) good and who needs health care? I found it.In

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-68900074472884401152007-08-29T13:40:00.001-07:002007-08-29T13:52:28.524-07:00The Rosetta Stone of Public Speaking

They say there are no dumb answers, only dumb questions. Frankly, South Carolina's representative at the Miss Teen USA pageant makes some valid arguments against ... wait, what the hell is she saying? "Osama People in America?"OK, anyone who remembers my flubbing the national anthem during history class (students were required to sing the song — individually — in front of the rest of the class;

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-79102620949831126962007-08-29T13:30:00.000-07:002007-08-29T13:54:13.284-07:00In case you haven't heard,Sen. Larry Craig is not gay

Do we get a prize for being the 1,000,000th website to post this video?

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-43382978240988189482007-08-29T08:02:00.000-07:002007-08-29T08:26:25.409-07:00It’s not who you know —it's who knows you

There’s nothing wrong with America’s legal system that a consistent enforcement of the law wouldn’t mend.I’m also of the mind that many of these problems aren’t new. Thanks to a glut of media — 24-hour channels, the Internet — we have more access to our government than ever before. And what people have seen has confirmed their worst fears.The law is not fair.For a lot of people, this little

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-50087003246818724442007-08-28T07:47:00.001-07:002007-08-28T07:48:02.287-07:00Vicky McLain

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-3681085113410301542007-08-27T11:00:00.000-07:002007-08-27T11:02:04.321-07:00Letter to the Editor

School uniforms should be given a chanceI think the plan for school uniforms is a great idea for many reasons. In the first place, no child will feel that he or she is better or poorer dressed than another. These clothes will cost no more than the usual school clothes most parents buy. Since uniforms are required, the buyer gets a tax write-off. Some of the complaints have been that the

The Progressive Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129573391842402932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505040710454026399.post-91331471082537897472007-08-23T10:06:00.001-07:002007-08-23T10:10:52.961-07:00Vicky McLain