Dan tackles the football/war analogy:
War is a complex subject in a democracy. But for many people, their
response to it is as simple (and in some ways, as sincere) as the
impulse to put up signs in the windows that urge the local boys on to
victory in a playoff road game. It's just... what some people know how
to do. It's just the way they react.
Earl Capps raises an important issue in the upcoming Berkeley County Senate race:
A recent issue raised in the GOP runoff for the State Senate in Berkeley County examines the issue of electric utility deregulation and selling the state owned utility to private-sector interests.
Santee-Cooper is the nation’s fourth-largest publicly-owned power generation utility in the United States. It’s customers include every one of the state’s rural electric cooperatives, several cities, dozens of major industries and the Charleston Air Force Base. This utility was created during the Great Depression, to provide electricity to a state where 93% of the state’s population did not have electric service, as well as control major flooding in the Santee and Cooper River regions.
Over at New Wars Mike the topic is immigration:
I think the first and second are key to why this Bill failed so
disastrously. First, they tried to hurry it into law before anyone
could read the thing. Second they lambasted and questioned the
Patriotism of those who balked. But that's government for you, who
think they know whats best for us, like the little naive children we
are.
Geoff asks, "What if Saudi Arabia supported Hamas?"
JanetLee:
He and his ilk have cut funding and gutted social programs as if it
were all coming out of their pockets. When a drug addict in Charleston
finds out she is pregnant and goes to get help, she is told that there
is a waiting list up to three to four months long, but just say no
until then. When a homeless drug addict in Charleston just decides that
he has had enough and wants to get better and a little help so he can
get a job and a little apartment and become a respectable citizen, he
is told to put his name on a list and maybe, maybe in four to six
months, there will be a rehab bed available for him. And it don't come
with no Olympic size swimming pool and gourmet dining hall.
Greg Hambrick on the failure of Open Enrollment:
It was a practical solution that failed due to conservatives that want
to send these kids to private schools and because some in the black
community are concerned that if parents can pick, they’ll pull students
from failing integrated schools.
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