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INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE VOICE OF THE PALMETTO STATE
VOL. 20, NO. 4 - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013
Obama Wants Background Checks
on Private Gun Sales, Transfers
WORD Second Amendment Rally
PHOTO BY JAMES “CHIP” MOORE
Sen. Tom Corbin and Josiah Magnuson
talk with Russ Cassell.
By Bob Dill
WORD talk show hosts Bob
McLain and Russ Cassell invited their listeners to join
them at the Chick-fil-a on
Woodruff Road last Friday at
Noon to show their support for
the Second Amendment to the
Constitution of the United
States that is under attack by
the Obama Administration and
their leftist supporters.
Hundreds of WORD listeners
turned out and filled more than
two blocks of sidewalks. They
carried American flags and hastily made signs.
McLain and Cassell are outspoken supporters of the Constitution and equally outspoken crit-
ics of elected officials who violate their oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution.
WORD Talk Radio broadcasts
on FM 106.3. The Russ Cassell
program may be heard weekdays from 8 am. until 12 Noon.
See RALLY, Page 5
Samsung Scholarship Recipient
Receives $20,000 Award
AMERICAN LEGION DEPT. OF SC PHOTO BY GILBERT SCALES
Jill Druskis, American Legion National Director Americanism Children
and Youth Division, Alternate National Executive Committeeman Cecil
Hennis, Judge Advocate Stephen Lewis, Barry Stevenson (Father),
Landon Stevenson, Katrinka Stevenson (Mother), and American Legion
Department of South Carolina State Commander Gary Mitchell.
President
Issued 23
Executive
Orders
restricting
Rights of Gun
Owners,
Studying other
Possible
Restrictions
By Bob Dill
President Obama has instructed
Democrats in Congress to take
action immediately to enact legislation imposing tighter control on
guns.
He has asked for laws requiring
universal background checks on
everyone attempting to buy a gun.
The law already requires licensed
dealers to request background
checks. The Obama gun laws
would require background checks
before sales or trades could take
place between individuals. The
information would be used to
store information in a national gun
ownership database.
Leftists who want to disarm
Americans are advocating a database so government agents will
know who has weapons, what
kind and from whom they were
obtained. If universal background
checks become law, future legislation is expected to make it illegal
to possess a firearm not reported
to the federal government. The
ultimate goal is to eliminate private gun ownership. The only
people with guns under that scenario would be criminals and government agents.
The president has asked for
congress to ban all “military
styles and assault weapons; and
ban all magazines holding more
than 10 rounds.
Obama also called for congress
to put more federally funded cops
See GUN CONTROL, Page 3
Robert E. Lee - Part 3
Frustrations and Bitter Weeds
By Mike Scruggs
On April 18, 1861, Robert E.
Lee turned
down the offer President
Lincoln made
through
Francis
Preston Blair
to make him Supreme Commander
of the United States (Union) Army.
This was an agonizing decision,
but Lee felt he could not with
good conscience raise his hand
against his home state of Virginia.
On April 22, Virginia’s Governor,
John Letcher, with the approval
of the Virginia Convention of Del-
egates, offered Lee the command
of all Virginia military and naval
forces with the rank of Major General. After accepting his appointment, he made some brief remarks
at an enthusiastic reception in
Richmond, including these words:
“I would have much preferred
had your choice fallen on an
Honoring Generals
Lee and Jackson
abler man. Trusting in Almighty God, an approving
conscience, and the aid of
my fellow citizens, I devote
myself to the service of my
native State, in whose behalf alone will I ever draw
See SCRUGGS, Page 12
PHOTO BY BOB DILL
The South Carolina Colour Guard of
Honour Post Colors.
By Bob Dill
“A Nation of
Men of Lee’s
Character
Would be
Unconquerable
in Spirit and
Soul”
President
Dwight D.
Eisenhower
The Officers and Members of
the 16th Regiment, South Carolina
Volunteers, Sons of Confederate
Veterans, Camp 36 in Greenville
celebrated the birthdays of Generals Lee and Jackson at the
Greenville Hilton, Saturday
evening.
Robert E. Lee was born January 19, 1807, in Stratford Hall, Virginia.
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
was born January 21, 1824, in
Clarksburg, Virginia.
Despite the mendacity of those
who continue to attempt to justify the atrocities committed
against the Southern people by
See GENERALS, Page 3
Mayor on Mission
His passion for the people of
this city shows as he opens up
and talks about how they have
made a difference in his life. “This
community is my heart and soul,”
states Mayor McCall.
When he was growing up, the
people in this city took care of him
and his family during difficult
times. “The people in the community nurtured me, pushed me, and
made me who I am today. It is a
privilege to give back to them,”
exclaims Mayor McCall as a twinkle
shines in his eyes and a warm smile
stretches across his face.
Mayor McCall describes how
he
wants others to see his welPHOTO COURTESY OF DIANNA TURNER
coming town. “I want visitors
from other states and residents of
Greenville County to see this city
By Tammy Johnston
as a place with a small town feel
Travelers Rest Mayor McCall and a thriving arts presence that
has served as mayor for over eight goes along with the beautiful
years and was on City Council be- mountain scenery of the area.”
fore his election as mayor of this
wonderful city of 4,576 people.
See MAYOR, Page 5
Travelers Rest
Mayor McCall.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
January Meeting of Joseph Evan Davis
Chapter #907, Children of the Confederacy
By Pam Evans
Joseph Evan Davis Chapter
#907, Children of the Confederacy,
met on Saturday, January 19, 2013.
The children enjoyed a program
honoring the two great Confederate generals, Robert E. Lee and
Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson in
the month of their birth. Pastor
Mark W. Evans, Chaplain-in-Chief
of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and local chaplain of the
Greenville 16th Regiment, Camp
36 SCV, was the guest speaker. He
spoke of the childhood of both of
these great generals and of their
strong Christian character. As part
of our ongoing Sesquicentennial
observance, the important events
that happened 150 years ago during the War Between the States in
January, 1863, were reported by
JOHN GORDON
TRAVELERS
REST, SC
Robert Lee “John Henry”
Gordon, 70, passed away on
Friday, January 18, 2013 at
Greenville Memorial Hospital.
Born in Brevard, NC, he
was a son of the late Eddie
Lee and Helen Lindsey Gordon. Mr. Gordon was retired
from Wilkins Carpet, was an
avid outdoorsman, and attended Hilltop Freewill Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife
of 50 years, Wanda Brown
Gordon; daughters: Tammy
Bryant, Lisa Lindsey, Angela
Bruce(Richard), Maria Gordon;
son:
Jason
Gordon(Vanessa); sisters:
Ruby Owens, Betty Camp,
Jane Waters; brother: Joe
“Duck” Gordon; 10 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild.
Along with his parents, he
was predeceased by a sister:
Tempie Travers; and son-inlaw: John Bryant.
The family will receive
friends Monday evening
from 6 until 8 p.m. at The
Howze Mortuary.
Funeral services will be
Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m.
at Hilltop Freewill Baptist
Church with entombment to
follow in Mountain View Memorial Park
Memorials may be made to
Hilltop Freewill Baptist
Church, 1401 Geer Hwy., Travelers Rest, SC 29690 or Gap
Creek Baptist Church, 381
Gap Creek Rd., Marietta, SC
29661.
The family will be at the
home.
Online condolences may
be expressed to the family at
www.thehowzemortuary.com.
The Howze Mortuary,
Travelers Rest is in charge of
the arrangements. (864) 8348051.
Mrs. Pam Durham. She also reported on the Natural Bridge
Battle in Florida from the November 2012 issue of the UDC magazine. The children brought items
to donate to Backpack Ministries
and Angel Ministries as part of
their project for the month of January. Joseph Evan Davis Chapter
#907 is sponsored by Winnie
Davis No. 442, United Daughters
of the Confederacy. We invite
young people with Confederate
ancestry, who wish to honor their
ancestors with other young
people who love the Cause of the
South, to attend our meetings on
the third Saturday of each month.
For more information, please contact Pam Evans, Chapter Director,
by email at markwevans@
bellsouth.net.
PHOTO COURTESY OF PAM EVANS
Left to right: Front Row - John-Luke Whitmire,
Nathan Watson, Chandler Tucker, Caroline Tucker, Jackson Tucker,
Seth Watson, Aaron Whitmire, Everett Whitmire, Charlotte Tucker.
Back Row - Eliza Whitmire, Allison Bolt, Matthew Myers,
Andrew Myers, John Myers, Julianna Crawford, Sarah Watson,
Pam Evans, Caitlyn Tucker, Pam Durham.
Opportunity Class Trip to the Children’s Museum
Knocks for
Homeschool
Students!
Homeschool students in Upstate South Carolina are invited
to enter an essay contest for cash
prizes.
Nonprofit FIRST FOUNDATIONS, INC. is sponsoring a writing competition on the topic:
“Resurrection Relevance in
2013.”
The contest is open to
homeschool students in grade
levels 9 through 12, with parental
approval.
Authors of the top three winning essays will be announced
during Easter week. Cash scholarships will be awarded to the winning students.
Parents and students can find
details online at www.first
found.us — or by calling Dick
Jensen at 864-834-2300.
Ms. Elizabeth Piper’s class
and two other classes from
Washington Center went to the
Children’s Museum in downtown Greenville. The classes
were granted the accessibility
school scholarship program
providing funding assistance
for admission. The students
had been studying about the
food groups, magnets and electricity, along with probability
and charts. All of the topics
came alive through exploration
at the facility. The classes were
able to review and apply what
they had learned to the variety
of corresponding activities.
The Children’s Museum has
three floors with 18 exhibits
which are interactive and encouraged the students to discover the educational features
in each exhibit.
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Kenny Diaz and Janhavi Math students in Ms. Elizabeth
Piper’s class at Washington Center are pictured engaging in
the Light Wave Ahead exhibit at the Children’s Museum.
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GENERALS
... continued from Page 1
maligning Southern leaders, General Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson
continue to be used by the top
military schools throughout the
world as the best examples of leadership and character in military
history. Both were distinguished
graduates of the U. S. Military
Academy and officers in the
United States Army. They were
faced with a momentous decision
when their sovereign state left the
Union. They resigned their commissions to defend their homeland.
President Eisenhower was
asked why he had a portrait of
Robert E. Lee hanging in the Oval
Office. The president answered in
a letter:
“General Robert E. Lee was, in
my consideration, one of the supremely gifted men produced by
our nation. He believed
unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which
until 1865 was still an arguable
question in America; he was
thoughtful yet demanding of his
officers and men, forbearing with
captured enemies but ingenious,
unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacles. Through all his many tri-
Ashley Landess,
President of SCPC
to Address
Republican Women
By Bob Dill
Ashley Landess, President of
the South Carolina Policy Council will be the guest speaker at the
January luncheon meeting of the
Greenville County Republican
Women’s Club.
The event will be held at the
Poinsett Club at Noon, Thursday
24 January. The cost is $16 and
reservations are required.
Landess will discuss the eight
reforms needed in South Carolina
government in order for the citizens of South Carolina to take the
power back from the politicians.
1. Restore Judicial independence – South Carolina is the only
state in which the legislature unilaterally appoints judges even
when vacancies occur.
2. Make the Governor fully accountable for the Executive
Branch – S. C. lawmakers control
the executive branch through a
complicated web of boards and
commissions.
3. Ensure a true citizen legislature by shortening sessions – Our
state has one of the nation’s longest legislative sessions: a system
GUN CONTROL
... continued from Page 1
on the street.
The 23 executive actions are
listed below.
1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background
check system.
2. Address unnecessary legal
barriers, particularly relating to the
Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background
check system.
3. Improve incentives for states
to share information with the background check system.
4. Direct the Attorney General
to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun
to make sure dangerous people
are not slipping through the
cracks.
5. Propose rulemaking to give
law enforcement the ability to run
a full background check on an individual before returning a seized
gun.
6. Publish a letter from ATF to
federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run
background checks for private
sellers.
7. Launch a national safe and
responsible gun ownership campaign.
8. Review safety standards for
gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).
9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.
10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and sto-
that favors career politicians over
citizen- legislators.
4. Open the state’s secret incentives process – Corruption is virtually guaranteed when politicians
have the power to strike secret
deals with private companies using public money.
5. End lawmakers’ ability to police themselves – House and Senate members police their own ethics violations.
6. All South Carolina elected
officials should report their income sources – The public has
no way to ensure lawmakers don’t
personally profit from legislation
on which they vote.
7. Strengthen the state’s open
records law and abolish lawmakers’ exemption from it – There’s
no justification for lawmakers exempting themselves from the
state’s Freedom of Information
Law.
8. Enforce the state law that
mandates an open budget process – The law requires the governor to write “the” budget and
the legislature to hold “joint open
hearings” to debate it.
len guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.
11. Nominate an ATF director.
12. Provide law enforcement,
first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.
13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and
prosecute gun crime.
14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for
Disease Control to research the
causes and prevention of gun violence.
15. Direct the Attorney General
to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new
gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop
innovative technologies.
16. Clarify that the Affordable
Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about
guns in their homes.
17. Release a letter to health
care providers clarifying that no
federal law prohibits them from
reporting threats of violence to
law enforcement authorities.
18. Provide incentives for
schools to hire school resource
officers.
19. Develop model emergency
response plans for schools,
houses of worship and institutions of higher education.
20. Release a letter to state
health officials clarifying the
scope of mental health services
that Medicaid plans must cover.
21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and
parity requirements within ACA
exchanges.
22. Commit to finalizing mental
health parity regulations.
23. Launch a national dialogue
led by Secretaries Sebelius and
Duncan on mental health.
als, he remained selfless almost
to a fault and unfailing in his belief in God. Taken altogether, he
was noble as a leader and as a
man, and unsullied as I read the
pages of our history.
“From deep conviction, I simply say this: a nation of men of
Lee’s character would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed,
to the degree that present-day
American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his
devotion to his land as revealed
in his painstaking efforts to help
heal the nation’s wounds once the
bitter struggle was over, we, in our
own time of danger in a divided
world, will be strengthened and
our love of freedom sustained.
“Such are the reasons that I
proudly display the picture of this
great American on my office wall.”
The Joyful Harps, song writers,
musical arrangers and recording
artists, warmed the ballroom with
soft melodies that brought back
memories of days gone by and the
true history of the South.
The 16th South Carolina Colour
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PHOTO BY BOB DILL
Sixteenth Regiment, Camp 36, SC Division, Army of Norhtern Virginia,
Sons of Confederate Veterans Officers for 2013, left to right: Color Sergeant
Robert Bolt, Jr., Chaplain Mark Evans, Adjutant Danny Durham, 1st Lt.
Commander Douglas Langley, 2nd Lt. Commander Haywood Hitt,
Asst. Adjutant Keith Pike and Commander David Wright.
Guard of Honour presented and
posted the colors. Robert Bolt,
Color Sergeant, led salutes to
flags.
2nd Lieutenant Commander
Gordon Bailey read the “Charge
to the Sons of Confederate Veterans” given on August 25, 1906
by Lt. Gen. Stephen Dill Lee, Commander-in-Chief, United Confederate Veterans:
“To you, Sons of Confederate
Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which
we fought. To your strength will
be given the defense of the Confederate Soldier’s good name, the
guardianship of his history, the
emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles
which he loved and which you
love also, and those ideals which
made him glorious and which you
also cherish.
“Remember it is your duty to
see that the true history of the
South is presented to future generations.”
Lieutenant Colonel Tom C.
McKenney, USMC (Ret) was
guest speaker. 1st Lt. Commander
See GENERALS, Page 16
Watch D.O.G.S. Heroes of the Hallways
League academy first middle school to implement program
PHOTO JAMES “CHIP” MOORE
Eric Snow, Executive Director and Cofounder of Watch D.O.G.S. speaks before a
cafeteria filled with concerned dads.
By James “Chip” Moore
In 1998 on March 24, two boys
met up in the woods outside their
school in Jonesboro, Arkansas,
after one pulled the fire alarm.
Armed with thirteen fully loaded
firearms, Mitchell Johnson, 13,
and Andrew Golden, 11, opened
fire on their classmates as they
exited the building 100 yards
away, killing five. Across the state
in Springdale, Arkansas, two men
feeling the impact of such a horrific event were compelled to do
something to ensure that schools
remain the safest place for children to be.
With the help of his friend, Jim
Moore, founder of watch D.O.G.S
(Dads of Great Students), started
making steps in creating a volunteer program for dads to become
more involved in day-to-day ac-
tivities in the school. Watch
D.O.G.S., a father-engagement
and educational initiative of the
National Center for Fathering, was
designed to encourage fathers
and father figures to be more involved in the educational process. The goals of the program
are to enhance school safety and
provide positive male role models.
“We never thought when we
started this program that all these
years later that we would see a
cafeteria in a school so many miles
away doing the same thing, filling
with men,” said Eric Snow, Executive Director and co-founder of
Watch D.O.G.S., while speaking to
the dads sitting in the cafeteria at
League Academy of Communication Arts in Greenville, SC.
League Academy will be the
Abstinence Education for Teens
first middle school in SC to be
implementing the Watch D.O.G.S.
program. Summit Drive, Lake Forest, and Stone Academy elementary schools have also implemented the program for their dads
and students.
“I’m a dad. I’m just a dad who
has committed himself to help out
with the Watch D.O.G.S. program
here at League. Nothing special
about me. I’m just a dad that understands what’s going on with
Watch D.O.G.S. Watch D.O.G.S is
a great program. Watch D.O.G.S.
is a dad’s program. It’s not about
the principal, or the assistant principal, it’s not about an assistant
or secretary doing all the work.
This is a program for us to do something for our kids and our families,” said Robert Hall, father of
two daughters.
Halls biggest regret was not
getting involved with the program
six years ago when he first heard
about it. After a “gentle nudge”
from his wife, Hall got involved
and it has been a life changing
program for him, his marriage, and
his family.
The program doesn’t cost dads
any money unless they want to
spend $15 for a Watch D.O.G.S. tshirt or hat. All that is asked from
dads is time, courtesy, and alertness.
“It’s really about your time. It’s
showing your family and your
kids that you really do care about
them, and that you want to be involved in their lives and their day
to day activities. It’s amazing all
the things I’ve learned about my
daughters and their teachers and
their schools and some of the challenges that they face,” said Hall.
When Lee and Snow took their
idea before the Arkansas superintendent he gave them a challenge to define the program that
they wanted to develop. While
developing the business plan
they sent out a questionnaire, with
two questions, to the teachers in
their area. The first question was
would you like to have a dad here
in some capacity? The second, if
you would, what would you have
us do? Every single teacher came
back in the affirmative. The list
they replied back with was very
much in common with each other.
They wanted dads to help out with
car rider duty, they wanted dads
in the library, they wanted dads in
the classrooms helping out with
special projects, and they wanted
dads in the lunchrooms and in
playgrounds.
A typical day in the life of
Watch D.O.G.S. starts at 7:30 by
checking in with the office and
receiving a T-shirt. Then they report outside to help out with the
students getting dropped off by
cars to greet the moms, along with
students, to let them know that
there is Watch D.O.G.S. on campus. At 8:30, when announcements are made, the dad is introduced to the school along with
who his student is. During the day
dads will get to spend at least an
hour in their child’s classroom.
Dads will also be able to eat lunch
with their child. When dads are
not in the cafeteria they will be in
another classroom or helping
other staff members with needs
of the day. Some of those needs
can include an extra set of eyes
on the playground, help in the library, serving food in the cafeteria, or wherever the need may be.
At the end of the day Watch
D.O.G.S. end it the way it began,
by helping the students back into
their cars. Typically the day ends
about 3:30 if a dad wants to give a
full day.
“What your day does for you
is going to be phenomenal, but
what you guys are going to do
for this school as an organization,
as a group of men, it’s going to be
transformational. We’re not looking to make improvements. What
we’re looking for is to be engaged
and to be involved,” said Snow.
Watch D.O.G.S. don’t need to
give a full day to participate. Any
amount of time that someone can
give is accepted. Participants
don’t have to be dads. They can
be granddads, uncles, or any positive role model from the community. Before participating in the
program each individual has to
scan their license in the office
where they will be checked for
crimes and through the state sex
offender registry. Watch D.O.G.S.
are never left alone with children.
“What the men have to do, and
have to do with the kids and what
they’ve done with the kids is not
better than what the women do,
and the moms do, and what the
teachers do. It’s not better, it’s just
different. It’s unique and in education it is missing. You’re needed
here, you’re wanted here,” said
Snow.
In 2000 the program was designated as a non-profit organization
that Lee went to work for full-time.
In 2006 the program merged with
the National Center for Fathering.
In 2008 they were approached by
the National PTA to form a partnership. 2,649 schools in 42 states
have all implemented the program.
There are another 350 school in
the process of implementing the
program by the end of the year.
For men over the age of 18 that
want to participate in the school
there are several ways to sign up.
One is to go in person and sign
up in the office of a school that is
participating in the program. Men
can also call in to the school and
register for the program. Participants can also go to volunteer
.com and register online.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Travel with Terry ...
City of Iron
By Terry M. Thacker
Driving in the Atlanta area is
always fun. Add rain into the mix
and the experience is just exhilarating.
I jest, of course. However, since
the first destination of my fourday trip this past August was Birmingham, Alabama, I had little
choice but to drive I-85 to Atlanta,
hit the beltway and then connect
to I-20 heading west.
The rain actually wasn't too bad
until I hit that long stretch of I-20.
By that point there were so many
felines and canines falling from
the sky that I came this close to
pulling over onto the shoulder.
Alas, the cats and dogs, in time,
became mere kittens and puppies
and so I kept on trucking.
Upon crossing into Alabama I
stopped in at the welcome center
to update my map and brochure
collection, as well as to see what
the forecast was like for Birmingham. As I walked toward the door
I noticed a stone marker near the
entrance that read, “ALABAMA
– WE DARE DEFEND OUR
RIGHTS.”
The weather screen at the Welcome Center showed a good bit
more rain to come, but with some
breaks in the action. Most of my
sight-seeing for the day was going to be on the outside, so I was
hoping that the breaks would
come at the right time.
I gassed up at Anniston, a town
I visited on a previous trip four
years earlier. There are two museums worth visiting if you ever find
yourself in the area – the Anniston
Museum of Natural History and
the Berman Museum of World
History, both of which I wrote
about in these pages. Concerning the natural history museum, if
you are willing to put up with the
numerous erroneous references
to millions of years and just simply ignore them, you would find
the place quite enjoyable.
By the time I reached Birmingham the rain had pretty much
stopped for the day, although the
sky remained cloudy to partlycloudy. My first stop was the
Sloss Furnaces National Historic
Landmark, which is located smack
dab in the industrial part of town.
A railroad track, still in use, passes
right by the place. In fact, while I
was there, a train came chugging
along and, just like a kid, I had to
stop my touring for a moment and
watch as it passed by.
After parking underneath a
highway overpass I walked into
the small visitor center, picked up
a brochure and set out on my own
to explore the place. As I recall, I
was the only tourist there at the
time. The place is a maze of buildings, furnace towers and piping.
It would be a fantastic place for a
game of hide and seek. Tag, your
it.
The Sloss Furnace, which was
named after its founder, James
Withers Sloss, began operation in
1882, just 11 years after the founding of Birmingham, and remained
in operation for nearly 100 years,
finally closing in 1971.
Birmingham, which was purposefully named after its industrial counterpart in England, was
founded with the goal of establishing industry in the area. The
region was rich in the natural resources necessary for the production of iron and steel. The city,
which grew at a rapid pace, became known for its iron and steelmaking, as well the manufacture
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Although no iron has been produced at Sloss for 40 years, that
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produce their iron art works.
As I left the Sloss facility I had
to drive ever so slowly over some
very bumpy railroad tracks. I then
proceeded for just a mile or two to
my next destination, the 56-foot
tall, 50-ton statue of Vulcan, which,
to be honest, doesn't look a thing
like Mr. Spock. Okay, it is not that
Vulcan. Rather, it is a statue of
Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
To get there I had to drive up a
fairly steep road to the top of Red
Mountain. I parked and walked
over to the admission booth,
where I asked if they give an AAA
discount. The man answered in
the affirmative. It always pays to
ask, even when such information
is not posted.
I walked uphill aways on the
sidewalk until I finally reached the
statue itself. Actually, I had
reached only the base of the 124foot tower on which the actual
statue stands. And, to be more
accurate, there are two towers, the
older one containing a staircase
and a newer one sporting an elevator.
I had my choice as to which way
I would ascend, by foot or courtesy of Mr. Otis. I must say that I
was quite pleased with myself
that I wasn't the slightest bit tuckered out after climbing those several stories to the walkway that
girds the tower near the base of
the statue. This is the closest that
one can get to the statue itself. If
you are squeamish about heights,
don't look down. Oh, and thanks
for the lift, Mr. Otis.
From the walkway I had a tremendous view of the city of Birmingham as well as several miles
into the distance in many directions. In the parking lot below,
way below, I could see my automobile. . . or was that a Matchbox
car? It was hard to tell being so
far up.
After replanting my feet on terra
firma I toured the accompanying
museum, which relates the story
of iron-making in Birmingham. It
also tells the story of the creation
of the Vulcan statue, which is the
largest cast-iron statue in the
world. It was created at the turn
of the last century in Birmingham
to represent the city as an iron
and steelmaking center. It was displayed at the 1904 World's Fair in
St. Louis, where it won first prize
at the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy.
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The Times Examiner
The Liberal’s Dictionary
A continuation of a plain and honest
compilation of what a liberal really
means when he uses a word or a phrase
By Walter McSherry
Intelligence, n. A mental characteristic once erroneously thought to be inherited, it
now being recognized that all persons have exactly the same intelligence, and that the
failure of people in some ethnic groups to do as well as others on tests is clearly the fault
of the biased and bigoted educators who designed the test. It may, however, be acknowledged that Jews are more intelligent than others.
Intent, n. Mindset of a voter in the state of Florida. Can be determined only by the
learned justices of the Florida Supreme Court, who alone can discern that a voter has the
intent to vote for a Democrat candidate when he (a) marks his ballot for two candidates
for the same office; (b) punches a voting card leaving one, two, or three hanging chads,
(c) leaves the ballot blank, or (d) votes for a Republican candidate.
Intern, n. Young and gullible person who serves as cheap labor and sex object for
Democrat officeholders. Normally female, but, for some Democrat officeholders, may
be of either sex.
Interpretation, n. Clever means by which a liberal jurist chooses words to mean
whatever he wants them to mean, even if that is the opposite of what a statute intended.
Excellent labor-saving device, the liberal jurist being relieved of the burden of knowing
what the law is, since he makes it up as he goes along.
Interstate Commerce Clause, n. Clause of the U. S. Constitution giving Congress
the power to regulate interstate commerce, used to justify any power grab, anywhere,
anytime, federal courts having held that one is engaged in interstate commerce when he
(a) grows peanuts on his farm to feed his livestock, the peanuts never leaving the farm;
(b) operates an elevator in the Empire State Building; (c) walks within 100 yards of a
school possessing a gun; (d) chooses not to buy medical insurance because he doesn't
need it. Use of this clause is irrefutable evidence in support of the view that federal
judges and officials may cheerfully ignore facts and common sense when it comes to the
extension of federal power. Clause may be used to justify any imposition of fines, confiscations, or imprisonment of any citizen for any reason.
5
MAYOR
... continued from Page 1
Mayor McCall attributes the
Swamp Rabbit Trail to bringing in
a huge economic growth to this
city. He states, “The property
value of the businesses along the
trail has soared way high.
Twenty-one new businesses are
in the area because of the trail,”
states Mayor McCall.
New homes are currently under
construction in Travelers Rest city
and on the outer city limits-Hawk
Point, Popular Forest in Watson
Crossing and a few more. These
new homes will bring in an additional 100 families to this city.
The city of Travelers Rest is
also helping others around them.
The Travelers Rest Fire Department is providing fire assistance
to the students and staff at
Furman University as a way of
giving back to the community.
Mayor McCall wants to give
back to the citizens of his city in
facilitating to bring in new business to this area to aide in excel-
ling economic growth to make
these businesses competitive to
the other cities in the Upstate of
South Carolina.
Mayor McCall describes his
honorable job in this way, “Your
legacy speaks for itself … what
you have left behind.”
This humble business man
whose family has lived here for
over 300 years is doing just that
… leaving behind a legacy and a
footprint just like his forefathers
did before him ... a man on a mission for this breathtaking region
of Greenville county.
RALLY
... continued from Page 1
The Bob McLain program follows
Rush Limbaugh at 3 pm. and
leaves the air at 6. pm.
Both programs as well as the
Lisa Rollins show in the early
morning take live phone calls from
listeners and are entertaining as
well as informative on current
events, both local and national.
A number of the attendees at
the Friday event traveled to Columbia on Saturday for a statewide
rally in support of the Second
Amendment and gun rights guaranteed by the Constitution that
are under threat.
PHOTO BY JAMES “CHIP” MOORE
The sidewalks were packed with people.
Intimidation, n. Inexpensive method of getting businessmen and governmental bodies
to cave in to liberal demands, the mere threat of lawsuits, boycotts, or demonstrations
being sufficient to get them to knuckle under. If intimidation fails, buying off the opposition may be necessary.
Invention, n. Ingenious innovation which improves the quality of life, as Thomas Edison's
invention of the electric light, Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, and Al
Gore's invention of the Internet.
Investment, n. Catchword for an earmark or payoff to a political constituency, designed to con the gullible into believing that somehow there will be a return of the government money someday.
Islam, n. Religion of the Middle East, its name meaning Submission to Allah, who
commands his followers to seize American hostages, impose oil embargoes, invade Kuwait, destroy the World Trade Center, blow up Times Square, etc.
Isolationist, n. Misguided person who believes that American money and American
soldiers should be used to support the mean-spirited and selfish interests of the United
States, instead of the noble, worthy, and benevolent interests of the United Nations, Britain, and Israel.
PHOTO BY JAMES “CHIP” MOORE
Talk show host Bob McLain with a message.
SCV Camp 40 Holds Second
Annual Lee-Jackson Dinner
Kinetic Response, n. Term misapplied to justify the use of military force by leaders of
one nation against another nation, without provocation or constitutional approval, in the
hope that the public will not know what the term really means, as the leaders of the
aggressing nation do not know what it means either.
Ku Klux Klan, n. Secret organization formed originally to opppose Reconstruction in
the South. A new organization formed in the early 1900's as an anti-Catholic group.
Believed by liberals to be large and influential, when it is actually small and insignificant.
Believed by liberals to be anti-black, when, at the height of its power, it was anti-Catholic.
Believed by liberals to be associated with the Republican Party, which has never been the
case, the Klan having been associated with the Democratic Party almost exclusively,
being especially strong in that party in the 1920's.
2. Openly bigoted, currently anti-black/Negro/African-American organization, any association with which disqualifies a candidate for public office or appointment to a government position; unless the person is a Democrat,. in which case he is entitled to become a
United Sates Senator and third in line for the Presidency of the United States.
Labor Union, n. Beneficent organization of workingmen dedicated to improving the
welfare and economic status of its members. Especially beneficent in improving the
welfare and economic status of its President, Secretary, and Treasurer.
2. Sacrosanct organization of oppressed workers, given the legal power to establish a
complete monopoly in an industry, to shut down the entire industry at its will, and to
establish uniform work rules, benefits, and wage levels throughout the entire industry, to
the end of eliminating competition between companies, and forcing the public to pay for
the industry's products at a price effectively determined by the union; the consequence
being that the unionized companies eventually go out of business or into bankruptcy, as
airlines, railways, automobile manufacturers, etc. Currently engaged in seeing to it that
state and municipal governments also go bankrupt, with the goal of eventually causing the
federal government to do likewise.
PHOTO COURTESY OF JENNIFER SAWYER
Pastor John Weaver
was special guest for
Camp 40 L-J Dinner.
By Jennifer Sawyer
The Brigadier General Samuel
McGowan Camp 40 held its annual Lee-Jackson Dinner on Tuesday, January 8, 2013, at the camp
headquarters building in Laurens,
SC. The camp brought in catered
food from the Hub in Laurens
which was served by the Order of
Confederate Rose. After the meal,
camp members and guests were
treated to a wonderful program by
special guest Pastor John Weaver.
Pastor Weaver is the Past Chaplain -in -Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. He is a native
of Georgia and a graduate of Bob
Jones University with a BA in
Theology. Pastor Weaver has
pastored over forty years and has
spoken at numerous colleges,
churches, and special events
across the nation. He is the author of many sermons on the role
of Christianity in the founding of
our nation and specifically the role
of Christianity in the South. He is
the founder of Freedom Baptist
Ministries and preaches on Sundays in Waycross, Georgia. He
and his wife Alice live in Live Oak,
Florida.
Pastor Weaver’s presentation
on Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall”
Jackson was inspiring, uplifting,
and very thought provoking.
Jackson was a man of principles,
which Pastor Weaver frequently
pointed out is lacking today in our
nation’s leaders. He did not operate on feelings or emotions but
on principles regardless of how
they affected him personally. Jackson was well-known in the VMI
classroom and on the battlefield
for his strict adherence to discipline and principle. This adherence made him unequaled on the
battlefield and he became a highly
respected general on both sides
of the War Between the States.
Pastor Weaver gave several vivid
examples of Jackson’s principles
and drew parallels today. He
stated that America could return
to her greatness when she returned to her principles. A standing ovation by the audience followed the presentation.
Following the program, a special election was held for the new
Camp Commander as other officers had been elected in November. Past Camp 40 Commander
Robert Roper was elected commander to serve for the 2013-2015.
Roper had also served the SC Division SCV as Commander. The
present SC Division Commander
Mark Simpson led the installations of new officers and passed
the Battle Flag to Commander
Roper, officially installing him into
office.
The Laurens Camp is one of the
few camps in the state which
maintains its own headquarters
building. Persons interested in
protecting their Confederate history are invited to visit the
McGowan Camp website and consider visiting the camp. The camp
meets regularly the 2nd Tuesday
of every month at 6:30 PM at the
camp headquarters, corner of
Calhoun and East Farley in
Laurens.
3. Legal monopoly in an industry, usually run by a small group of people who have
established their own monopoly on all offices of the union.
4. Organization which encourages incentives toward hard work, productivity, and individual achievement through payment and promotion strictly on the basis of seniority, opposition to labor-saving mechanization, and near-impossibility of firing the inefficient and
unproductive.
5. Essential organization for protecting the rights of the incompetent and the lazy.
6. Benevolent organization dedicated to the welfare and improvement of working conditions of its members, so much so that 93% of workers engaged in private business do
not think it worth the cost of its dues.
7. Benevolent organization which negotiates higher wages and improved benefits for
employees, the increase in wages and benefits for the average employee being being
almost as must as his required dues.
PHOTO COURTESY OF JENNIFER SAWYER
Newly installed officers for SCV Camp 40 are left to right: Robert
Roper = Commander, Bo Ariel - Color Sargeant, Jim Yates - 2nd
Lieutenant, Alvin Donnan - 1st Lieutenant, Dabo Jacks Quartermaster, Dusty Jacks - Chaplain and Randy Simpson - Adjutant.
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The Children
Protection Deception
A
n unbelievably large segment of the American population has
been deceived into thinking that no protection is the best protection for children in public schools and on college campuses. These
vulnerable children have become the easiest prey for crazed killers
who want to kill as many people as possible before help arrives in the
form of guns in the hands of police officers.
Many school districts in South Carolina have at least assigned one
uniformed officer to some schools. This is recognition of a need, but
grossly inadequate to deal with the potential threat. The School District of Greenville County is seeking ways of enhancing security.
They clearly have a need for a select few trained and tested armed
school employees, in the schools every day, their identity known
only to the principal and law enforcement officials. The knowledge
that they exist and their identity secret would be a great deterrent to
those who would harm children while on school property and away
from parental protection.
The leftist guidebook followed by the current regime in Washington is exploiting the “perfect crisis” needed for their “gun control”
agenda. The leftists are using children as an excuse to take the first
step in destroying the Second Amendment of the Constitution, the
Amendment that allows citizens to successfully protect themselves
and their property from criminals and tyrannical government. Americans have been free for more than two centuries due to the Second
Amendment that provides protection for the entire bill of rights. The
medicated, crazed killer, who killed his mother and took her unsecured
guns to a gun-free school where innocent children and adult women
were defenseless when confronted by any determined killer using
any weapon from a crowbar to a gun. The killer was not stupid. His
target was carefully chosen and his attack well executed.
For twenty minutes this video game addict and alleged worshiper
of Satan had no opposition except the bare hands of teachers and
administrators as he methodically snuffed the life from trapped first
graders who had been left vulnerable by a well-meaning government
school system. The people responsible for the protection of these
children had the insane idea that the best defense against a crazed
killer is to prohibit anyone on school grounds from possessing a
defensive weapon with which to defend the children.
A careful review of President Obama’s announced 23 executive
actions and calls for legislation reveals that none would have prevented or even deterred the massacre at the Connecticut elementary
school. It appears to be a leftist list of government actions to harass
and “punish” law-abiding gun owners.
Last week Rush Limbaugh suggested that Obama is practicing “revenge” and pushing people to “snap.” People are becoming very
discouraged and very angry. Some observers believe that the regime
in Washington want a “law-abiding” citizen, maybe a combat veteran,
to “snap” and take drastic action giving the regime a reason to ratchet
their gun control (grab) agenda up another notch.
It is important to remember that this is not about protecting children. Children are simply props being used and abused by power
hungry politicians. This is about removing the single defense the
American people have against government tyranny. The leftists who
have taken over the Democrat party must disarm citizens if they are to
perpetuate their fanatical desire for dictatorial rule against the will of
the people.
“All of this is so in our face. Everything that people hold dear is
under assault. Deliberately making people upset. This is not what
Presidents do,” said Limbaugh.
Obama plans to drastically reduce law-abiding Americans’ access
to guns. His executive plan would demand federal access to details of
a transaction every time a father gives or sells a firearm to his son,
daughter, relative or neighbor. This will form the basis for a national
gun registry, Nazi/Commie style.
Who are the people for whom Obama seeks punishment and revenge? Limbaugh speculates that they are the people Obama referenced in a speech to Democrat “fat cats” in California, when he didn’t
know he was being recorded. They are the ones from small towns and
rural areas who “cling to their guns and their Bibles.”
Depending on future events, the Obama gun agenda could be the
greatest threat to the Constitution that many Americans are sworn to
protect and defend, since the founding of the republic.
Letters to the Editor...
Keep the Invocation at School Board Meetings
Dear Editor,
I attend most every Pickens
County Council meeting, and they
start their meeting with an invocation. The US Supreme Court has
ruled it is perfectly legal. Just like
it is legal for the US Congress, the
state legislatures and all county
councils in the country to start
their meeting with an invocation.
I see no reason why it would be
illegal for the school board. There
is little difference between what
the County Council does in its
meetings and what the school
board does in theirs – both bring
up issues of public concern, debate them and vote on them.
A school board meeting is not
a classroom full of students where
such prayers have been found to
be illegal. The school board is a
deliberative body, like the county
council, city council, state legislature and US Congress where the
Supreme Court found those
prayers to be legal.
That is the school board’s legal
defense. School board members
are elected by and work for the
people and they vote to spend our
money. The board works for the
people and the people want the
board to defend the opening innovation at their meetings and we
don’t mind the board spending
our tax money to do it.
The purpose of the invocation
is not to establish a religion in this
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board to continue. Its purpose is
we recognize there is a higher
power that bonds all of us, and
the purpose is to bring citizens of
all backgrounds together to participate in the workings of their
government to a positive end.
There is nothing illegal about
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Like many of you, I am tired of
the excessive Federalism in our
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of a federal document (the US Constitution) to the Federal Court system, in order to force us to do what
they want. It is time for this to end.
Weldon Clark - Liberty, SC
Dear Editor,
America is facing a fiscal abyss
far more serious than the fiscal
cliff which is shrugged off by the
politicians in charge. The administration in Washington is unduly
influenced by an agglomeration
of domestic malcontents and a
America Facing Fiscal Abyss
never ending flood of huddled
masses yearning for something
free. Presently, the only organized
political defense, national in
scope, is the Republican Party.
Admittedly at this juncture, inadequate and lacking a clearly de-
fined mission to be effective, Republicans are falsely labeled by
the Left as obstructionist regarded as nuisance nattering nabobs of negatism or worse. The
two party system requires a party
of opposition, not a token party
of simpering sycophants.
The widespread disparagement
of the opposition to the Obama
administration should be regarded, at the very least, as borderline treason.
W. Wright Waller - Cheraw, SC
Dear Editor,
Kudos for your op-ed commendations of Jim DeMint in the 1/9/
13 edition of The Times Examiner.
Indeed, he is the 21st Century
embodiment of the premises upon
Jim DeMint Is One Of A Kind
which our founding fathers, including George Washington,
Patrick Henry, et al., envisioned
for our Nation.
Truly, Jim DeMint is one of a
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county or place the government’s
seal of approval on religion, so
the invocation doesn’t violate the
first amendment. Nor is its purpose to coerce anyone attending
the meeting to believe in something they don’t’ want to believe.
If any person doesn’t like the
opening invocation, he can come
to the meeting 10 minutes later or
just get up and leave the room for
that 2 minutes when the innovation is being said.
Such opening prayers have
their roots going back to the first
Congress of 240 years ago. The
school board has been doing it
for years too. It is a tradition the
people of this county want the
kind, standing for convictions
which are so prevalently absent
in, and even flagrantly opposed
by, all but a handfull of today’s
statesmen.
I pray that Tim Scott will forthrightly consumate and build upon
all the advancements initiated by
his predecssor while in the U.S.
Senate.
Roger Henry - Greenville, SC
The Best Way To Stop A Bad Guy With A
Gun Is A Good Guy With A Gun
Dear Editor,
During my 26 years as a police
officer for the city of Greenville, I
never considered the average citizen and his guns (military sty1e
or otherwise) a threat to my safety.
Thegreatest risk to police and the
public is a changing demographic
that reflects loss of traditional
norms and standards, and a dysfunctional judiciary, including our
U.S. Supreme Court that has made
consistent, timely applications of
the death penalty impossible.
When news of the horrific
slaughter at Newtown, CT,
reached anti-gun politicians (who
spend most of their time under the
protection of armed security) and
the liberal media, they began their
usual “blame the gun” propaganda. Never mind that such maniacal carnage could have been
created with a baseball bat. The
truth about guns and crime does
not fit their agenda for making all
firearms in the hands of the public as contraband as cocaine.
Thus they ignore hundreds of
“saves” that occur each year due
to lawful acts of citizens using
guns to defend themselves and
others, most often without discharging their weapons.
Equally immaterial to these bureaucrats is the fact that tens of
millions of semi-automatic, highcapacity, military-looking rifles
(erroneously labeled “assault
rifles” by these types and the
media) are in the hands of citizens,
yet only a minuscule fraction of
one percent have been used in
criminal acts. Nevertheless they
are crusading for laws that will ban
the lot, knowing such laws affect
only the law-abiding—not psychopaths and sociopaths that use
them to kill.
I have been a member of the National Rifle Association for 35
years and am about to renew
my membership. I firmly agree with
Wayne Lapierre, the organization’s
Executive Vice President: The best
way to stop a bad guy with a gun
is a good guy with a gun.
Allan E. Brown - Greenville, SC
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SYNDICATED COLUMNISTS
Do Gun Control Laws
Control Guns?
Are Guns the Problem?
MINORITY VIEW
Walter
Williams
W
hen I attended primary
and secondary school -during the 1940s and '50s -- one
didn't hear of the kind of shooting mayhem that's become routine
today. Why? It surely wasn't because of strict firearm laws. My
replica of the 1902 Sears mail-order catalog shows 35 pages of firearm advertisements. People just
sent in their money, and a firearm
was shipped.
Dr. John Lott, author of "More
Guns, Less Crime," reports that
until the 1960s, some New York
City public high schools had
shooting clubs where students
competed in citywide shooting
contests for university scholarships. They carried their rifles to
school on the subways and, upon
arrival, turned them over to their
homeroom teacher or the gym
coach and retrieved their rifles after school for target practice.
Virginia's rural areas had a long
tradition of high-school students
going hunting in the morning before school and sometimes storing their rifles in the trunks of their
cars that were parked on school
grounds. Often a youngster's 12th
or 14th birthday present was a
shiny new .22-caliber rifle, given
to him by his father.
Today's level of civility can't
match yesteryear's. Many of
today's youngsters begin the
school day passing through metal
detectors. Guards patrol school
hallways, and police cars patrol
outside. Despite these measures,
assaults, knifings and shootings
occur. According to the National
Center for Education Statistics, in
2010 there were 828,000 nonfatal
criminal incidents in schools.
There were 470,000 thefts and
359,000 violent attacks, of which
91,400 were serious. In the same
year, 145,100 public-school teachers were physically attacked, and
276,700 were threatened.
What explains today's behavior versus yesteryear's? For well
over a half-century, the nation's
liberals and progressives -- along
with the education establishment,
pseudo-intellectuals and the
courts -- have waged war on traditions, customs and moral values. These people taught their
vision, that there are no moral absolutes, to our young people. To
them, what's moral or immoral is a
matter of convenience, personal
opinion or a consensus.
During the '50s and '60s,
the education establishment
launched its agenda to undermine
lessons children learned from
their parents and the church with
fads such as "values clarification." So-called sex education
classes are simply indoctrination
that sought to undermine family
and church strictures against premarital sex. Lessons of abstinence
were ridiculed and considered
passe and replaced with lessons
about condoms, birth control pills
and abortions. Further undermining of parental authority came
with legal and extralegal measures
to assist teenage abortions with
neither parental knowledge nor
consent.
Customs, traditions, moral values and rules of etiquette, not
laws and government regulations,
are what make for a civilized society. These behavioral norms -transmitted by example, word of
mouth and religious teachings -represent a body of wisdom distilled through ages of experience,
trial and error, and looking at what
works. The importance of customs, traditions and moral values
as a means of regulating behavior
is that people behave themselves
even if nobody's watching. Police
and laws can never replace these
restraints on personal conduct so
as to produce a civilized society.
At best, the police and criminal
justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized
society. The more uncivilized we
become the more laws that are
needed to regulate behavior.
Many customs, traditions and
moral values have been discarded
without an appreciation for the
role they played in creating a civilized society, and now we're paying the price. What's worse is that
instead of a return to what worked,
people want to replace what
worked with what sounds good,
such as zero-tolerance policies in
which bringing a water pistol,
drawing a picture of a pistol, or
pointing a finger and shouting
"bang-bang" produces a school
suspension or arrest. Seeing as
we've decided that we should rely
on gun laws to control behavior,
what should be done to regulate
clubs and hammers? After all, FBI
crime statistics show that more
people are murdered by clubs and
hammers than rifles and shotguns.
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OPINION COLUMN
Thomas
Sowell
T
he gun control controversy
is only the latest of many issues to be debated almost solely
in terms of fixed preconceptions,
with little or no examination of hard
facts.
Media discussions of gun control are dominated by two factors:
the National Rifle Association and
the Second Amendment. But the
over-riding factual question is
whether gun control laws actually
reduce gun crimes in general or
murder rates in particular.
If, as gun control advocates
claim, gun control laws really do
control guns and save lives, there
is nothing to prevent repealing the
Second Amendment, any more
than there was anything to prevent repealing the Eighteenth
Amendment that created Prohibition.
But, if the hard facts show that
gun control laws do not actually
control guns, but instead lead to
more armed robberies and higher
murder rates after law-abiding citizens are disarmed, then gun control laws would be a bad idea, even
if there were no Second Amendment and no National Rifle Association.
The central issue boils down to
the question: What are the facts?
Yet there are many zealots who
seem utterly unconcerned about
facts or about their own lack of
knowledge of facts.
There are people who have
never fired a shot in their life who
do not hesitate to declare how
many bullets should be the limit
to put into a firearm's clip or magazine. Some say ten bullets but New
York state's recent gun control law
specifies seven.
Anti-American Asians
Don't Speak for Me
OPINION COLUMN
Michelle
Malkin
M
artial arts movie legend
Jackie Chan deserves a
rhetorical roundhouse kick to the
mouth. So does his pal PSY, the
Korean rapper whose "Gangnam
Style" music video has racked up
more than a billion views worldwide. Both men have raked in big
bucks from Western fans while
trashing the very freedoms and
cultures that made them superstars.
Last week, The Washington
Post spotlighted a recent interview Chan did with Chinese TV in
which he accused America of being "the most corrupt country in
the world." The Hong Kong-born
Chan also admitted proudly that
he is a propagandist for the Communist Chinese government. He
openly advised his fellow countrymen to speak with forked
tongues when addressing foreign
press: "We know our country has
many problems. We (can) talk
about it when the door is closed.
To outsiders, (we should say) "our
country is the best."
Translation: Rampant sex-selection abortions? Shhh. Jailing po-
litical dissidents? La, la, la, can't
hear you! Systemic religious persecution? State-sanctioned censorship? Continued brutality
against Tiananmen Square protesters and Tibetans? Nothing to
see here, move along, and down
with America!
Turns out that behind the jovial cinematic persona, Chan is an
unrepentant champion of authoritarian rule. Despite making a living as an entertainer and "humanitarian," Chan suffers a severe
allergic reaction to freedom of
speech and freedom of thought.
In a separate interview last month
with China's Southern People
Weekly, he complained that Hong
Kong had become a city of too
many protests. "There should be
regulations on what can and cannot be protested," Chan declared.
Earlier in 2009, Chan echoed
Chinese Communist leaders in
asserting that Chinese people
"need to be controlled" because
"if we are not being controlled,
we'll just do what we want." God
forbid!
This contempt for freedom of
expression comes from an international box-office mogul who has
topped the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list and has an estimated
net worth of more than $130 million. Even more damning, Chan's
own personal history is defined by
the turmoil of Mao's Cultural Revolution. As the 2003 documentary
"Traces of a Dragon" recounted,
Chan's father and mother both fled
China for Hong Kong to escape
Communist rule. They left behind
their original spouses and four
children between them.
Instead of condemning the regime that wrought havoc on his
family and imposed suffering and
death on millions of innocents,
Chan is China's most prominent
mainstream apologist. Meanwhile,
moviegoers in the "most corrupt
country in the world" continue to
help make Chan a wealthy man.
This summer, his latest movie,
"Chinese Zodiac," will hit U.S.
theaters. Sylvester Stallone has
invited him to co-star in the next
installment of "The Expendables."
And Chan is working on another
Hollywood project involving his
popular "Police Story" series.
Will American consumers allow
themselves to be punched in the
gut by this trash-talking action
star? If the embrace of Chan's new
pal PSY is any indication, the answer is yes. The Korean
"Gangnam Style" performer once
urged listeners to "kill those
See MALKIN, Page 13
Virtually all gun control advocates say that 30 bullets in a magazine is far too many for self-defense or hunting -- even if they
have never gone hunting and
never had to defend themselves
with a gun. This uninformed and
self-righteous dogmatism is what
makes the gun control debate so
futile and so polarizing.
Anyone who faces three home
invaders, jeopardizing himself or
his family, might find 30 bullets
barely adequate. After all, not every bullet hits, even at close range,
and not every hit incapacitates.
You can get killed by a wounded
man.
These plain life-and-death realities have been ignored for years
by people who go ballistic when
they hear about how many shots
were fired by the police in some
encounter with a criminal. As
someone who once taught pistol
shooting in the Marine Corps, I
am not the least bit surprised by
the number of shots fired. I have
seen people miss a stationary target at close range, even in the
safety and calm of a pistol range.
We cannot expect everybody
to know that. But we can expect
them to know that they don't know
-- and to stop spouting off about
life-and-death issues when they
don't have the facts.
The central question as to
whether gun control laws save
lives or cost lives has generated
many factual studies over the
years. But these studies have
been like the proverbial tree that
falls in an empty forest, and has
been heard by no one -- certainly
not by zealots who have made up
their minds and don't want to be
confused by the facts.
Most factual studies show no
reduction in gun crimes, including murder, under gun control
laws. A significant number of stud-
ies show higher rates of murder
and other gun crimes under gun
control laws.
How can this be? It seems obvious to some gun control zealots that, if no one had guns, there
would be fewer armed robberies
and fewer people shot to death.
But nothing is easier than to
disarm peaceful, law-abiding
people. And nothing is harder
than to disarm people who are
neither -- especially in a country
with hundreds of millions of guns
already out there, that are not going to rust away for centuries.
When it was legal to buy a shotgun in London in the middle of
the 20th century, there were very
few armed robberies there. But,
after British gun control zealots
managed over the years to disarm
virtually the entire law-abiding
population, armed robberies became literally a hundred times more
common. And murder rates rose.
One can cherry-pick the factual
studies, or cite some studies that
have subsequently been discredited, but the great bulk of the studies show that gun control laws do
not in fact control guns. On net
balance, they do not save lives
but cost lives.
Gun control laws allow some
people to vent their emotions,
politicians to grandstand and selfrighteous people to "make a statement" -- but all at the cost of other
people's lives.
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Clouds Over Obama's
Second Term
OPINION COLUMN
Pat
Buchanan
R
arely have second terms
lived up to the hopes and
expectations of presidents or their
electorates.
FDR's began with an attempt to
pack the Supreme Court by adding new justices and a second
Depression of 1937. He was rescued only by the war in Europe in
1939 and the GOP's nomination of
"the barefoot boy from Wall
Street," Wendell Willkie.
What can be called Harry
Truman's second term was a disaster.
In 1949, the Soviets exploded
an atom bomb and China fell to
Mao. In 1950, the Rosenbergs
were convicted as atomic spies for
Stalin and North Korea invaded
the South, igniting a three-year
war Truman could not win or end.
He lost the New Hampshire primary in 1952 to Sen. Estes
Kefauver, dropped out and saw
would-be successor Adlai
Stevenson crushed by Gen.
Dwight Eisenhower, as Republicans captured Congress. Truman
left with the lowest approval rating of a president before or since.
In his second term, Ike did better, but suffered a GOP defeat in
1958, saw Fidel Castro seize Cuba
in January of 1959, and had the U2 shot down by Russia in May
1960 and his Paris summit blown
up by Nikita Khrushchev, who
berated Ike to his face. His vice
president, Richard Nixon, then lost
the White House.
The Kennedy-Johnson second
term began spectacularly, with
passage of all the Great Society
legislation. But, in 1966, LBJ's
party suffered huge losses. In
1968, that year of assassinations
of Martin Luther King Jr. and
Robert Kennedy, of race riots in a
hundred cities, and of campus
anarchy, antiwar protests and an
endless war in Vietnam, LBJ was
challenged in the primaries, quit
the race, and saw Nixon succeed
him.
After his own 49-state re-election victory, Nixon did not survive
his second term. Jimmy Carter did
not get a second term.
Ronald Reagan comes close to
being the exception.
While he lost 10 Senate seats
in 1986, he cut income tax rates
from 50 to 28 percent, and his
summiteering with Mikhail
Gorbachev is seen as a historic
success, leading to America's victory in the Cold War.
The Iran-Contra scandal -- trading of arms to Iran for hostages in
Lebanon -- almost broke his presidency. But by the time Reagan left
in 1989, his popularity had been
restored, the Cold War was ending, and his vice president was
taking the oath of office to succeed him.
George H.W. Bush was denied
a second term. And the main event
of Bill Clinton's was his impeachment and Senate trial for the
Monica Lewinsky affair.
In his second term, George W.
Bush lost his battle for Social Security reform and lost both houses
of Congress in 2006, ending his
presidency with America mired in
two unwinnable wars and plunging into a near-depression.
By January 2009, Bush's approval rating was approaching the
Truman low, and his party had lost
the White House.
About Obama's second term it
is hard to be sanguine.
The hopeful news is that, after
four years, the U.S. economy appears to be recovering. Progress
is slow, but we seem to be out of
intensive care and walking the
hospital halls.
See BUCHANAN, Page 13
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Obama’s Giveaway to the
Communists
SCHLAFLY REPORT
Phyllis
Schlafly
T
he China problem is not just
that China is raking in trillions of dollars because of
Obama’s spending and borrowing
binges, and it’s not just that government policies encourage wellpaying U.S. manufacturing jobs
to move overseas. An even bigger problem is that the Obama Administration is about to give Communist China some of our most
precious and up-to-date military
technology.
This particular chicanery
started when the Obama Administration foolishly tried to use taxpayers’ money to force green energy to replace fossil fuels. But
green energy can’t compete in the
free market because it’s so much
more expensive to produce.
Obama gave a half-billion U.S.
tax dollars to Solyndra to subsidize making solar panels, yet the
company promptly went bankrupt. Then Obama awarded a grant
of $250 million of Stimulus money
to a firm called A123 to make batteries for electric cars, which also
went bankrupt and now is trying
to pay off its investors by auctioning the company.
The high bidder at $256 million
in a December auction was the
Wanxiang Group, which has close
ties to Communist China’s government. Its chief executive is one
of the wealthiest men in China, a
prominent figure in the Chinese
Communist Party.
This sale is dangerous to U.S.
security because it involves the
transfer of advanced battery technology using lithium iron phosphate, which produces longer-life,
lighter-weight, higher-power and
more stable batteries that can operate in both very low and very
high temperatures. In China’s
hands, the new A123 technology
will threaten U.S. electrical power
and communications grids.
China is eager for this acquisition because of its potential use
in space weapons, anti-satellite
missiles, lasers, and counterspace
systems. Retired navy Vice Admiral Barry Costello, former commander of the Navy’s Third Fleet,
says the sale of A123 will give a
big boost to China’s military expansion and warfare capability in
space, cyber warfare, and unmanned vehicles, all of which rely
on battery power.
One option considered is to sell
only the commercial technology
to Wanxiang and sell its U.S. defense contracts to a U.S. firm,
Navitas Systems. But pretending
that A123's advanced technology
can be sold to China only for business purposes is a pipe dream.
A123 employs more than 100
scientists and engineers working
on sensitive materials that are part
of what is scheduled to be sold to
Wanxiang. If China gets access
to A123's commercial applications, it will be easy for China to
reverse-engineer the military applications.
If Wanxiang owns A123's intellectual property and highly skilled
technicians, that means controlling today’s battery technology
plus a ten-year leap in development. Senators John Thune (RSD) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
warn that the deal could give
Wanxiang “access to these defense contracts and technology
used by multiple branches of the
U.S. military.”
This giant and valuable gift
would give Communist China cutting-edge military-grade technology and control of the future supply chain. China would be able to
use all this technology to continue its rapid buildup of a military to achieve dominance in the
Pacific.
The U.S. military has made a big
investment in A123's technology,
which the Army’s chief of technology acquisition has called the
“technology of the decade.” To
develop it, the Air Force spent $4
million, the Navy spent $700,000,
and the Army spent $21.8 million.
This technology is critical to
many U.S. military operations, proprietary applications for underwater vehicles, shipboard advanced
systems, unmanned ground and
air systems, and portable power
in satellites, combat vehicles, and
precision munitions. It is valuable
to support soldiers in unfriendly
ground conditions and excessive
heat, and can lighten their heavy
See SCHLAFLY, Page 13
Who's a Coward?
OPINION COLUMN
Mona
Charen
W
ho said this about a world
leader: He's a "political
coward -- an essentially unchallenged leader who nevertheless is
unwilling to lead or spend political
capital to advance the cause of compromise"? Was it perhaps John
Boehner describing Barack Obama?
No, though the shoe would certainly fit. It was Barack Obama describing Binyamin Netanyahu.
This insight into Obama's views
comes from an interview with the
Atlantic Magazine's Jeffrey
Goldberg. Let's pause for second
to consider the gall. Mr. Obama
knows full well that the United States
confronts an unavoidable debt crisis if our government does not reform entitlements. Rather than lead,
Obama has peddled denial ("We
don't have a spending problem"),
distortion (suggesting that Republicans who want spending cuts in
exchange for raising the debt ceiling are "not paying America's bills")
and demonization of the rich.
What wouldn't Netanyahu give
for such manageable problems?
The prime minister of Israel is
confronted by deadly threats in all
directions. Iran, whose leaders routinely threaten to destroy the Jewish state (the "moderate" Hashemi
Rafsanjani noted that "one bomb"
would destroy all of Israel so "it is
not irrational to contemplate such
an eventuality"), is marching, seemingly inexorably with Obama's re-
election, toward a nuclear weapon.
Syria is in flames, with the outcome uncertain. Lebanon is controlled by Hezbollah. Iraq's future
stability is in doubt with the total
withdrawal of U.S. forces.
Egypt, whose three-decade
peace treaty with Israel offered a
certain tenuous security to the Jewish state, is now in the hands of the
Muslim Brotherhood. And while
Obama's Director of National Intelligence James Clapper described the
Brotherhood in 2011 as "largely
secular," the true nature of the regime is dawning on even the most
obtuse. There was Mohammed
Morsi's power grab in late November, when he attempted to grant himself sweeping authority. There is the
persecution of Christians at the
hands of the Muslim Brotherhood
(sometimes including crucifixion).
And there is the 2010 video that
surfaced recently of Morsi himself
describing Israelis as bloodsuckers,
warmongers and "the descendants
of apes and pigs."
According to Goldberg, Obama
has said repeatedly, "Israel doesn't
know what its best interests are."
With each new settlement announcement, Obama believes,
"Netanyahu is moving his country
down a path toward near-total isolation."
Obama is revealing his ignorance
and arrogance. The question of
settlements has not prevented the
Palestinians from negotiating in the
past. The PA decided to make halting settlements a condition of negotiation after Obama himself in-
sisted upon it. They could hardly
do less. By big-footing it, Obama
impeded the cause of negotiations.
Israel has built most settlements
in regions quite close to the 1967
borders that everyone believes
would be incorporated into Israel
anyway. As the Washington Post
noted in an editorial implicitly critical of Obama, "80 percent of [Israeli
settlers] could be included in Israel
if the country annexed just more
than 4 percent of the West Bank -less than the 5 percent proposed
by President Bill Clinton 12 years
ago." Obama himself has predicted
that there would be "land swaps"
as part of any final agreement. Besides, why is it considered out of
the question that some Jewish
settlements would remain in a future Palestinian state? There are
more than a million Israeli Arabs living throughout the Jewish state.
Has Mr. Obama not considered
that Israel has dismantled settlements in the Sinai and Gaza? The
Gaza withdrawal brought not peace
but unrelenting missile fire. The jury
is out on the Sinai withdrawal.
Like his colleagues on the left,
and like his nominee for Defense
Secretary, Obama believes that
Israel's vulnerability is her own
fault. He utterly misconceives the
entire conflict, which is not about
"two states for two peoples" (which
Israel has repeatedly endorsed and
sacrificed for) but about the stubborn Palestinian rejection of Israel's
existence. Evidence for this is so
abundant -- from official PA maps
that show no Israel, to Palestinian
See CHAREN, Page 13
The Law Of The Sword
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Chuck
Baldwin
M
y last two columns which
stated that my line in the
sand has been drawn and I will
NOT register or surrender my firearms, even if that makes me a lawbreaker (in the sight of government), have generated multiplied
thousands of reader responses.
And while the vast majority of
these responses expressed complete agreement, there were several responses from professing
Christians telling me that I was in
violation of Holy Scripture for
making such a stand.
As one might expect, some of
my brethren argued the erroneous
“obey-the-government-no-matter-what” interpretation of Romans 13. For the sake of the many
new readers of this column, let me
point out that my son, constitutional Christian attorney Timothy
Baldwin, and I have co-written a
pivotal book dealing with this fallacious interpretation of Romans
13 in a book entitled “Romans 13:
The True Meaning of Submission.” This book takes the entire
Word of God to show that nowhere does the Bible teach (including in Romans 13) that Christians should submit to unlawful
government. In fact, just the opposite is taught: Christians often
have a duty to RESIST unlawful
government.
To order the Romans 13 book,
go to: http://romans13truth.com.
Also, you can order my fourpart video message series (on one
DVD) entitled, “The True Meaning of Romans 13.” Order it at:
http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/
home/archives/3146.
But perhaps the verse of Scripture that my slightly confused
brethren quoted most in their attempt to rebuke me was Matthew
26:52, “Then said Jesus unto him
[Simon Peter], Put up again thy
sword into his place: for all they
that take the sword shall perish
with the sword.” (KJV) This, they
said, proves that Christians have
no right to keep and bear arms if
the government said it was illegal
to do so. However, with all due
respect, this interpretation is opposed to the overwhelming evidence of Scripture to the contrary.
In the first place, consider what
Jesus said just a few moments
before making this statement. Just
before arriving in the Garden of
Gethsemane (where the statement
was made to Peter to “put up thy
sword”), Jesus told his disciples,
“But now, he that hath a purse, let
him take it, and likewise his scrip:
and he that hath no sword, let him
sell his garment, and buy one.”
(Luke 22:36 KJV)
After hearing Jesus’ command,
the disciples replied, “Lord, behold, here are two swords. And
he said unto them, It is enough.”
(Luke 22:38 KJV)
Notice that Jesus plainly and
emphatically told Simon Peter and
the others to arm themselves. So
emphatic was Jesus’ command
that He told them if they could
not afford to purchase a sword
they were instructed to sell their
clothes if necessary and buy one.
After hearing Jesus’ command
to arm themselves, the disciples
noted that already two of the disciples were carrying arms. Jesus’
response, “It is enough,” did not
mean that only two swords (out
of eleven men–Judas Iscariot had
already left to betray Christ) was
sufficient, for He had plainly commanded EACH MAN to arm himself. He was simply acknowledging that they clearly understood
what He had just told them.
Ladies and gentlemen, the First
Century Roman sword was the
most efficient and lethal personal
defense weapon in the world at
the time. It is no hyperbole or injustice to language to say that the
Roman sword was the First Century equivalent to a modern AR15 semi-automatic rifle. It was designed to kill swiftly and efficiently. And Jesus commanded
His disciples to buy and carry
one!
Also note that the same word
“sword” that is used in this passage is the same word that is used
in Romans 13:4, “He (government)
beareth not the sword in vain.” In
other words, Jesus told His disciples to carry the same-type
weapon that government soldiers
were carrying at the time.
After this exchange, Jesus and
His disciples walked to the Garden of Gethsemane where the
events of Peter and the sword
took place.
Simon Peter had already told
Jesus that he was willing to die
for him (yes, Jesus rightly predicted his denial, knowing how
Simon would react to the events
that unfolded in the garden), and
when the armed soldiers from the
High Priest (tantamount to the
President’s Secret Service officers today) came to arrest Jesus,
Simon Peter drew his sword in
defense of his Master. He intended to cut off the soldier’s
head, but the man ducked, and
Simon cleanly sliced off his ear.
Notice that Jesus did not rebuke
or chastise Simon. Remember
when He sternly told Simon, “Get
thee behind me, Satan”? No such
rebuke is found here. And notice,
too, that He did not tell Simon to
“GIVE UP thy sword.” He said
“PUT UP again thy sword into his
place,” meaning into its scabbard.
He fully expected Simon to retain
possession of his sword.
It is also noteworthy that as
Jesus was being arrested, the
power of His voice totally overwhelmed the soldiers, which
caused all of them to sway backward and fall to the ground. (John
18:6) This accomplished a couple
of things: it caused every soldier
in that garden to fully understand
that theirs was not the preeminent
power present. It also allowed His
eleven disciples to leave unscathed TAKING THEIR WEAPONS WITH THEM, as the soldiers were either totally distracted
by the surprise of what had just
happened to them, or they were
totally disinterested in attempting
to disarm the disciples after this
incredible demonstration of power
against them.
But as Jesus had come to this
earth to give Himself a ransom for
sinful men, which meant that His
betrayal, arrest, and crucifixion
were all a part of God’s sovereign
plan for His only begotten Son,
Simon’s armed defense of Christ
was not necessary. Jesus calmly
reminded Simon of the legions of
angels that were available for His
defense, should He call on them.
Then Jesus gave Simon the assurance that “all they that take the
sword shall perish with the
sword.”
And despite what you’ve
heard so many preachers say regarding this verse, this was not a
WARNING to Simon Peter; it was
a PROMISE to Simon Peter.
See BALDWIN, Page 12
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Be a Patriot and Not a Crybaby
Is Obama Good for Israel?
FOCUS ON ISRAEL
Dr. Al
Snyder
N
ow that Barack Obama has
been re-elected to another
term as president of the United
States, this question is appropriate. Is Obama good for Israel?
According to election exit polls,
about 75 percent of American
Jews voted for Obama. They seem
to believe that Obama is good for
Israel. Most of them are established liberal Democrats, who
would never vote conservative or
Republican. Despite the mountain
of evidence that shows Obama's
hostility toward Israel and toward
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, those American Jews
choose to believe Obama's positive statements on Israel, while
ignoring his negative actions.
However, an Israeli newpaper
stated that if Israelis could have
voted in the U.S. election, they
would have voted at least three
to one against Obama. There is
an overwhelming feeling, the paper added, that Obama is the most
ant-Israeli U.S. president in history.
The report goes on to identify
some highlights of Obama's "naivete" in regard to the Middle East
and his contempt for Israel and
Prime Minister Netanyahu. Two
years ago Obama first met with
Netanyahu at the White House in
Washington. The president's
treatment of the leader of one of
America's closest allies was deplorable and disdainful.
Netanyahu was quietly led into
the White House through a side
door. He was treated more like a
stranger than like an esteemed
friend. There was no media attention and no photo op. However,
when Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas visited the
White House shortly afterward,
he was treated as an honored
guest with photo ops and a smiling president giving him one hundred million dollars.
After Obama was unable to get
Netanyahu to agree to stop new
construction in Jewish settle-
ments, a frustrated president left
the meeting and went to dine with
his family. According to this
source, the president told
Netanyahu, "I'm going upstairs.
Call me when you are ready to talk
substance." Netanyahu and his
entourage were left to cool their
heels in the meeting room.
Then you have to remember
when Obama made good on a campaign promise, which was "to give
a major address to Moslems from
a Moslem capital." His objective
was "to repair ties that were severely damaged under his predecessor George W. Bush." For the
record, we all know that those ties
were "severely damaged" when
19 Middle East Moslem terrorists
turned jet planes into missiles, killing 3,000 Americans. Obama also
stated that "there have been times
when America has shown arrogance." The problem with
Obama's speech was the naivete
of the president to think that Moslem anger toward the U.S. was
because olf George W. Bush or
American arrogance. He obviously fails to understand that the
issue is not American arrogance,
but the Moslem religious fanaticism.
Recently on U.S. television
Obama stated that "Israel is one
of our closest allies in the Middle
East." Isn't Israel America's closest ally in the region, and really
America's only trustworthy ally
there? All the surrounding Arab
countries are Moslem, who consider the U.S. to be the "Great Satan," and their supposedly holy
Koran instructs them to hate and
to kill us. Yet Obama considers
them to be close allies.
Then we can look to Benghazi,
Libya. The insistence for two
weeks by Obama and his team that
the attacks in Libya were not a
planned assault against America,
but that some obscure video on
the internet resulted in "hurt religious feelings of Moslems"
clearly reveals his pro-Moslem
attitude. His initial response was
to want the person who produced
the offensive video to be brought
to justice. Never mind that the
Moslem terrorists murdered our
U.S. ambassador and three other
Americans.
And remember during the G20
summit last year in Paris, when
French President Sarkozy privately said to Obama while he was
not aware that his mike was still
on, "I cannot bear Netanyahu."
And President Obama responded,
"You're fed up with him, but I have
to deal with him even more often
than you do."
Then too, the president several
times has called for Israel to implement a "two-state solution," and
to return to the suicidal borders
of 1967. The reality is that there
actually were no definite borders
in 1967. When Israel declared
statehood in 1948, they were immediately attacked by five Arab
nations. The borders were defined
simply by where everyone was
when the attacking nations cried
“uncle.” There was no peace
treaty and there were no border
agreements. Had the Arabs won
the war, they would have annihilated Israel in its infancy. None of
those nations recognized Israel as
a state or any borders as permanent. Arabs are now occupying
most of the territory of Judea and
Samaria, but Israel still legitimately
owns that war-gained land, and
many Jewish communities (settlements) have now been constructed throughout this so-called
West Bank area.
When Jordan attacked Israel
during the 1967 Six-Day War, Israeli military forces pushed Jordanian forces out of Judea and
Samaria and back across the Jordan River. Why should Israel just
give that land back for nothing
and be left with only a ten-milewide territory along the Mediterranean coast, just because Obama
wants it that way?
When you add it all up, maybe
Obama is the most anti-Israeli U.S.
president in history.
Laura
Belknap
M
any home schooling families incorporate Bible
study into their school day.
Whether you choose a published
curriculum or build your own, several computer programs can help
you to study the Bible with
greater efficiency and understanding. All the ones that I mention
here are free and run in Windows.
E-Sword (www.e-sword.net) is
an incredible tool for PC and iPad.
It aids in daily devotions, word
searches, Bible memory, and maintaining a prayer list. Be sure to
check out the online tutorials to
see all its features in action. KJV
and many other versions and languages are free; some modern
Bible translations require purchase of an unlock code. Students
who are learning a foreign language may enjoy reading or
memorizing the Bible in their
target language.
E-Sword offers a customizable
interface and a host of handy features. The “parallel” feature allows the user to see several Bible
versions side-by-side onscreen.
The “copy verses” function allows the user to define a portion
of text (from a single verse up to
an entire Bible book at a time) and
choose the format to use when
pasting the verses into a new
word processing document. Combining e-Sword’s “copy verse”
function with handwriting fonts
allows the user to make handwriting practice sheets with Bible
verses in just a few mouse clicks.
Another handy feature of eSword is its integration of Bibles
with commentaries, dictionaries,
and other resources. Clicking on
a verse or word instantly searches
all installed resources, and those
which have related content are
flagged. Also, under the “Tools”
menu, users can view related sermon content on www.Sermon
Pastor
Franklin
Raddish
I
n response to the non-confrontational critics who promote the love of God, but do
not want to talk about the Biblical judgement of Almighty God,
the Bible says in Psalms 9:17,
"The wicked shall be turned into
hell, and all the nations that forget God." Also in Romans 1:28
it says,"And even as they did
not like to retain God in their
knowledge, God gave them over
to a reprobate mind, to do those
things which are not convenient." Iran and North Korea
and their demon-filled leaders
are two countries that fit these
verses without question. As
Sam Jones the Spirit filled evangelist of yesterday said, "If you
do not like what was said just
turn the cat around and stroke
it the other way." If you don't
like that then just go and lay
down like an old hound dog and
howl at the moon.
America has become a nation
with some silly-minded people
in it who believe that the way to
get along with our enemies is to
"go along to get along" with
whatsoever they want us to do.
Hogwash! If you want to live
in some effeminate country
without any moral backbone
then go to Sweden, Denmark,
or France and live there. Our
nation is in very serious trouble
with the sodomites in open rebellion celebrating their wicked
behavior in our armed forces.
President Obama and his leftist
political henchmen are hollow-
ing out the defense budget
which will destroy the preparedness of our standing military.
Obamacare is intimidating American citizens more than our political leaders are intimidating our
enemies.
Now we come to the lunatic
White House nomination for Secretary of Defense, Chuck (Israel
hater) Hagel of Nebraska. The
reason that Obama picked Hagel
is simply because he represents
his radical world view for America
and his contempt for the nation
of Israel. Hagel has said that our
country should negotiate with the
Jew hating terrorist militia of
Hamas. In 2006 Hagel said, "The
Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of
people....I have always argued
against some of the dumb things
they do because I don't think it's
in the interest of Israel. I just don't
think it's smart for Israel." Hagel
fits perfectly into the Obama mold
of promoting the Palestinian state
at the expense of Israel. If Hagel
is confirmed as Secretary of Defense he will be weak in protecting a strong American foreign
policy, he will not aggressively
fight terrorism and our national
security will be at risk. Our nation
cannot afford to pay the price of
an Obama and Hagel team that will
further destroy our military prominence in the world.
Obama is again on the political
rampage threatening to use an
executive order to enforce more
gun control and thereby he will
be bypassing our elected members of Congress. This dictato-
rial and unconstitutional threat
needs to be challenged by Congress before it happens. Speaker
John Boehner and his leadership
team in the House must publicly
warn Obama if he moves to do
such an unconstitutional thing
that impeachment proceedings
will be started against him. Obama
and his leftist thugs are out for
political blood and the Republican-controlled House must understand that they are in an all-out
war for the very soul of America.
From a Georgetown University
Professor to (airhead) Nancy
Pelosi, (moonstruck) Joe Biden,
and the leftists in the media, they
have all recently been fabricating
Obama's authority to use an executive order to implement more
gun control while at the same time
inferring that our Constitution
and the Second Amendment are
outdated. Obama and the Marxist storm troops are setting political fires to the American way of
life and gleefully watching and
fanning the political flames while
they start to engulf the Constitution. Our Constitution is soaked
in the blood of our founding fathers, and we assure the Marxists
that the Second Amendment contained therein gives "the right of
the people to keep and bear arms,"
and we will protect it.
-------------------------------------------Pastor Franklin D. Raddish is the
Founder and Director of the
Capitol Hill Independent Baptist
Ministries. He holds weekly Bible
studies in the U.S. Capitol, Justice Department and Pentagon.
He attended Bob Jones University and graduated from Tabernacle Baptist College in
Greenville, S.C. with a degree in
Bible.
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As We View Things
SUMMIT VIEW
Don
Lowry
------------------------------------------Dr. Al Snyder is a former profest is a common phrase often
sor of Communications at Liberty
heard from conservative poliUniversity in Virginia and North
ticians,
which was made popular
Greenville University. He has
done extensive missionary work by the late President Ronald
Reagan: “God bless America.”
in Israel and Africa.
While I don't doubt the former
President meant it sincerely as a
challenge to Americans, I question whether those who repeat it
Audio.com without opening a today, politicians and constituweb browser. Each available mes- ents alike, have really given any
sage is indexed by preacher and sincere thought with regard to the
date, allowing the user to choose matter?
trusted speakers. Sermons are
Why should God bless America
played within e-Sword.
in any way? How can God bless a
Although e-Sword has an exnation that destroys its future by
cellent multi-mode built-in verse
killing its babies, that snubs its
memory tool, those who prefer a
very motto, “In God We Trust”
different computer-based Bible
by removing mention of Him from
may wish to have a stand-alone
the public square, that mocks the
program for Bible memory. Bible
concept of husband and wife in
Memorizer (biblememorizer
the institution of marriage by le.sourceforge.net) runs in Wingalizing sodomite unions? Obvidows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Users can paste (or type) text from ously, the evidence is that most
the version of their choice into the who have any prominent place in
Edit window, and then switch to governing America have snubbed
the View or Quiz windows to prac- these values that had in the past
tice. Quizzes require the user to served to invite, though not detype the text or reference. When serve, God's blessing.
My great concern is not what
the program scores the passage,
it changes incorrect text to red and has and is happening in the pubadds omitted text in bold type. lic square. It is what is happening
These visual cues help the user in the sacred halls where worshipto learn verses more efficiently.
Finally, Bible Mapper (bible
mapper.com) offers a terrific way
I
Bible Study Resources
HOMESCHOOL HELPLINE
LET FREEDOM RING
ers gather to honor God from the
dictates of their hearts.
Crowds may gather; but they
do so for the most part to celebrate the latest cultural trends
rather than to hear the prophet of
God. Seminars are held to train
people how to use and properly
invest their monies and develop
their families; but there are few
that gather in the prayer rooms or
weep upon the altars. We look at
looming edifices that gather
crowds; but we notice little difference in the crowds that gather
there on the weekends than those
that rally in the stands at sporting
events.
Even the most earnest, who often quote God’s promise to Israel,
(“If My people who are called by
My name will humble themselves,
and pray and seek My face, and
turn from their wicked ways, then
I will hear from heaven, and will
forgive their sin and heal their
land” [2 Chron. 7:14]) don't seem
to be interested in going much out
of their way to give themselves to
seeking God's face other than
hoping that He will be gracious;
so they continue their present
lifestyle boasting about what they
possess.
All of these things caused me
to contemplate my own concerns
and involvements. Do I really
want to see America blessed for
God's glory or for my benefit? Do
I want His blessing so the
economy will stabilize and taxes
will be reduced so my grandchildren will not owe their adult lives
to pay for government waste? Do
I really desire a spiritual awakening in America that might require
sacrifice on my part and perhaps
on the part of those I love? Can I
with good conscience pray as
Jeremiah did for Judah, “Oh, that
my head were waters, and my eyes
a fountain of tears, that I might
weep day and night for the slain
of the daughter of my people!”
(Jer. 9:1 NKJV)? Am I that concerned for America?
I fear that most of us if we are
honest will have to admit that we
really want some political hero to
come and save us from the direction our country has gone and
make us free again. For the most
part we don't want One to come
who will reveal our sinfulness and
salvation for our needy souls and
Who will assist us in living lives
for Him that will change a society
which has become comfortable
without Him.
That's the way we view things.
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Thomas Jefferson - Part 6
“A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth
him before great men.”
(Proverbs 18:16)
“What will you give for the whole of Louisiana?”
(Tallyrand the French foreign minister to Robert Livingston, U.S. ambassador to France)
CHRISTIANITY & AMERICAN HISTORY
Bill
Watkins
P
resident Thomas Jefferson
worried after learning that
Napoleon, the new emperor of
France, had compelled Spain to
secretly retrocede all land between the Mississippi River and
the Rocky Mountains, including
the island of New Orleans, back
to France. Always having allowed
the United States access to the
Mississippi River, Spain had controlled the land since 1762, after
France, the former owner, had
compensated Spain with gift of the
land for her part in the French and
Indian War. Ambassador Robert
Livingston, already in France, was
trying to negotiate some kind of
settlement, but Jefferson was
afraid Livingston’s presented offer would be too miserly, and refused. Fearful of having the turbulent Napoleon as a neighbor,
Jefferson had hurriedly dispatched James Monroe to France
with an official offer of two million dollars, though where the
money would come from, the
President would concern himself
with that matter in due time.
Other than the immediate New
Orleans region, much of the Louisiana Territory had still remained
only curious tracts of land and rivers. The Indians undisputedly still
possessed it, but the thought of
purchase had maximized the quizzical interest of Jefferson, the scientist. As President, he would be
available to bargain with American natives over peaceful negotiations of thousands upon thousands of acres, and inclined if necessary, prevent war and make
concessions on each request. He
observed his makeshift maps and
charts of land beyond the Mississippi, and had reasoned there
was enough space for both white
settlers and the Indians.
On the other side of the Atlantic, Napoleon had hoped he might
replace France’s loss of Canada
with a new French base in North
America, and was proposing to
make France a power in the New
World as in the Old. But because
of his other priorities, he had determined the time inconvenient of
taking immediate possession of
the Louisiana lands. It was his
desire, also, to keep his treaty with
Spain secret, but during “his conjugation with the Iberian Peninsula nation his entente cordiale
had leaked” information to
Jefferson, the American President.
This had occurred in late 1801.
The President had immediately
dispatched a message to Robert
Livingston, the U.S. ambassador
to France, to begin a program to
purchase the island of New Orleans. Receiving further confirmation that Napoleon planned on
being America’s French neighbor,
Jefferson had then dispatched
James Monroe with extreme emergency bargaining measures.
As Monroe had made his way
to
France,
Ambassador
Livingston had begun testing the
waters of negotiation. He began
by using efforts to persuade Napoleon to repay France’s past
debts, French warships having
seized American merchant ships.
Then following this request for
payment of lost ships, he had
made an offer to buy an area at
the mouth of the Mississippi
River, and had insisted that the
French should either grant his requests or guarantee free use of
the river.
Livingston’s correspondence
with French officials had failed to
produce results until after he
learned that his negotiations with
Napoleon through Tallyrand, the
French foreign minister, were being ambushed.
Meanwhile, James Monroe’s
arrival had been providentially
delayed, and Livingston’s circumstances had begun to change.
Tallyrand, envisioning a great future for France in Louisiana, had
negotiated Livingston’s information to the first consul, but had
withheld Jefferson’s offers of purchase. Suffering considerable
delays trying to bypass
Tallyrand, Livingston someway
had finally managed to negotiate
directly with Napoleon.
Pending Monroe’s arrival, Emperor Napoleon had prepared an
appetite for negotiation. But during weeks of delay, his dream of
establishing a staging area at
Santo Domingo for French soldiers and settlers embarking for
Louisiana had suddenly ended
when blacks of Santo Domingo
had again risen up to throw off
the French yoke. To make matters worse, the mighty French
emperor had pushed his country
into war with England. During this
timeframe, should Napoleon have
tried to establish a French Louisiana, it would have presented England constant temptation to attack Louisiana, and claim it her
own. Unwilling to risk chance of
losing everything, Napoleon had
decided to sell Louisiana to the
United States “lock, stock and
barrel.” He had instructed
Tallyrand to offer the Americans
the entire Louisiana Territory at
an unbelievable price. But his
proposal: they should buy all or
nothing.
Livingston had greeted Monroe with this astonishing news
when the American minister to
France had finally arrived in Paris.
Though Jefferson had desired
purchasing New Orleans for two
million up front, he had secretly
commissioned Monroe to offer
anything up to ten million for both
New Orleans and Florida. Should
France refuse Monroe’s initial offer, the President had also given
Monroe an alternate scheme.
Jefferson had agreed to allow
Monroe seven and a half million
to negotiate for New Orleans
alone. But because Napoleon
wanted to be the aggressor in the
negotiations, the French emperor
never heard Jefferson’s final offers. Napoleon had beat Jefferson
to the punch, he desiring to initiate the negotiations of purchase,
had directed Tallyrand to casually
ask Livingston, “What will you
give for the whole of Louisiana?”
Livingston later admitted he had
swallowed
hard
while
nonchalantly suggesting the
United States was willing to pay a
price of four million. “Too low!”
The Frenchman had said. “Reflect and see me tomorrow.”
Livingston and Monroe had done
just as directed.
After completing discussions
on 30 April 1803, the treaty of cession was signed. The Americans
had agreed to pay the equivalent
of about fifteen million for the entire area. Twelve million would be
paid in cash and installments
spread over twenty years. The
United States had also offered to
assume the debt for the naval
damage of 1797-1798, claimed
against France.
Without doubt, the Louisiana
Purchase was the greatest bargain
of land in American history, but it
had not come easy for Jefferson.
He could not enjoy the fantastic
accomplishment made by his administration, though he was certainly pleased with the success
of Monroe and Livingston’s negotiations and John Randolph for
pressuring Congress to obtain so
much land—doubling the size of
what was then the United States.
But Jefferson was troubled by
Federalists’ actions. They were
declaring he had paid twelve million for a scrap of paper—the
title—and claimed apparently defective on several points. Namely,
Bonaparte had promised Spain he
would never dispose of Louisiana
to a third nation. The title had
also no definite boundaries.
Jefferson’s enemies ranted and
raved, claimed that the treaty was
unconstitutional. They accused
the President of overstepping his
power. Though Jefferson cared
little what his enemies thought or
said, he was troubled with his own
inconsistencies, having had to
exert executive power beyond the
limits of the Constitution. In his
own words, he had “done an act
beyond the Constitution.” Always, he had opposed giving excess power to the federal government not specifically granted in
the Constitution. He knew well
that the supreme law of the land
said nothing about the Executive
branch of the federal government
having power to purchase territory from a foreign nation.
Though it was in his mind to draft
an amendment, there was no time.
His advisers warned him that an
amendment would take weeks,
even months, and Napoleon might
withdraw the offer.
Jefferson’s concerns about the
Constitution had vanished after
receiving a letter from Livingston,
demanding immediate ratification
before Napoleon had chance to
retract his offer. Jefferson immediately drew up the treaty of purchase and sent it to the Senate.
There in Congress and with furnished assistance, Randolph and
friends had provided a taste of the
Federalist party’s own ramrod-like
tactics, rushing the bill through
and getting it ratified on 30 November 1803.
Three weeks later, the Louisiana Territory had become the possession of the United States. At
the time, though the Louisiana
Purchase was the single most important territorial acquisition during America’s transcontinental
development, little was known of
THE SOUTHERN GOSPEL
MUSIC CORNER
By Keith Crowe
Music
Corner
Keith
Crowe
T
his week’s article is about
Lily Fern Weatherford
who has announced her retirement after 70 years in Southern
Gospel Music. Lily Fern has
been listed with the greats in
Southern Gospel both for her
beautiful voice, as well as dedication to sing the message of
Jesus Christ. Possessing an unbelievably smooth and polished
alto voice that has a refined
sound, Lily Fern has been described by many of her peers as
the best female singer ever on
the professional circuit. She is
a pattern which young singers
can model after.
Lily Fern is best known for
songs such as “What A Precious Friend Is He” (written by
Henry Slaughter, one-time pianist for the Weatherfords), “He’s
The Lily Of The Valley,” “Tenderly,” and “Footprints Of
Jesus.” She like some many of
the “old Timers,” has reached
new heights of popularity as a
result of her appearances on the
Gather videos. Lily Fern has received many awards for her
musical ability. She was given
an Honorary Doctorate degree
in Music from Oakland City University in Indiana.
Lily Fern and her late husband Earl, who formed the
Weatherfords Quartet in 1944,
began singing together in 1949
and this group has been singing in some form since that beginning. As a group there have
been many accolades given including membership into the
hall of fame of the Great Plains
Southern Gospel Association
and the Living Legend Awards
Lily Fern Weatherford
from the Grand Ole Gospel Reunion. This group style is much
like the personality of Lily Fern
filled with dignity, class and reverence. Lily Fern is quick to point
out that ministry, not entertainment, has always been the top
priority of the Weatherfords.
Although Earl and Lily Fern
were both from Oklahoma they did
not meet until they both were living in California. In 1951 after a
few stops in between they landed
in Akron, Ohio, where they became staff members of The Cathedral of Tomorrow. Through the
widespread radio and television
ministry of its pastor, Reverend
Rex Humbard, the Weatherfords
gained national exposure. Some
years later this same program became the springboard for another
group, which most everyone is
familiar with, The Cathedrals.
Some names are you sure to recognize who sang with the
Weatherfords are Glen Payne,
Armond Morales (who also
sing with The Blue Ridge Quartet), George Younce and Jim
Hamill just to name a few. Earl
passed away in 1992 but Lily
Fern and Steve, her son, continue to carry on today with the
same zest for singing that they
always had and, as you might
imagine, Lily Fern remains the
focal point of the group. Each
year The Weatherfords spend
time during the winter months
in Florida performing all across
the state.
If you would like to learn more
about this lady and her career
look for the book entitled, “With
All My Heart.”
----------------------------------------I can be contacted at (864)
979-9626or (864) 895-1287.
Remember, Heritage Chapel
Baptist Church will have
Driven in concert Sunday February 3rd at 10:30. Hope to see
you there
FAMOUS QUOTES ...
“Abuse of words has been the
great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”
~ John Adams
the territory. Jefferson most certainly was aware that the purchase
would give the new nation a corridor down the Mississippi River
to the Gulf of Mexico; but the
width of the purchased land was
purely speculative. The acquisition of this enormous tract of land,
its boundaries and limits later determined in treaties with Great Britain and Spain, would play an integral and huge part in the material
foundation for the United States’
future greatness, allowing free
navigation of the Missouri and
Mississippi rivers and consummate control of the New Orleans
port, and all vital to western trade.
The purchase had additionally
reinforced security for the growing new Republic, and eliminating Napoleon’s quest to dominate
North America.
****
If words were limited, the one
word that had best described the
characteristic instrument of Thomas Jefferson is “curiosity”.
Jefferson had the inquisitive mind
of a scientist, the imaginative
dreams of a schoolboy. His father had died when Jefferson was
only fourteen, yet the boy had
learned many skills while the elder Jefferson lived. Through attentiveness of the father to the
young boy’s desire of knowledge,
young Thomas had breathed into
him growing experiences of farming, hunting, fishing and reading
books, which had cultivated and
filled his mind with curiosity.
It was one day on a hillside of
his father’s some 2,750 acres,
while reading, that Jefferson had
envisioned the building of his
home, Monticello. True to his vision, he had later built that home
of his dreams, and had drawn the
plans himself. With assistance of
slaves, he had assembled a spectacular and beautiful home that
still stands today as a testimony
of Classic Revival style with
French features. It was only one
of many houses designed by
Jefferson that had displayed
“gadgets” or novel features. Notably, his house design was the
first to hide servant’s quarters,
remove the usual grand staircase
in favor of two small stairs—one
on each wing—provide a dumbwaiter in a mantel, utilize a disapSee WATKINS, Page 12
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GUEST COLUMNISTS
South Carolinians Are Faced
with a Dilemma
GUEST COLUMN
Dr. Thomas
Kendall Sr.
V
ery important questions of
life & health which are
asked in the context of the patient/
physician interaction should be
answered with mutual understanding, compassion, and dignity by the patient & the physician. The majority of people
whom I ask if they believe the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is
good for South Carolina, say, with
emotion, "No."
I then ask them if they know of
anything that they can do to limit
the influence of Obamacare in
South Carolina and they say, "No,
other than pray."
There is, however, what Thomas Jefferson proclaimed to be
"the rightful remedy" in regard to
unjust, unconstitutional, and regulatory oppression on South Carolinians. This is nullification.
Senator Bill Chumley, along with
other courageous, engaged, and
attuned legislators are proposing
for us, who need their help – a
means of maintaining our personal
and civil liberties as residents of
South Carolina. So much goes into
the final determination of what will
be a statement regarding the State's
authority in defending personal
liberty.
H.3101 is a bill before the General Assembly that is gaining momentum and needs the support of
every freedom-loving citizen of
our state.
These chains forged by the
Federal government to enslave
the mind, will, and destiny of free
people must be destroyed. The
dilemma facing us is the question
of liberty & security: Will we surrender freedom for security (promised)? Will "We the people" of
South Carolina, with authority &
honor, oppose this destructive
influence or surrender our liberties?
We may be tested to see if we
agree with Patrick Henry, "Give me
liberty or give me death."
-------------------------------------------Dr. Tom Kendall Sr., graduate of
Medical College of Georgia and
Family Physician, has served
Greenville for 33 years. He is husband to Jan, father of 7, and
grandfather to 5.
The Tainted Inauguration An Attack On Christianity
GUEST COLUMN
H.K.
Edgerton
T
oday, I look on in dismay at
the Inauguration ceremony
of the President. It is hard to believe that the American people will
close their eyes to the denial of a
Southern Christian Minister to
deliver the invocation because he
quoted the Bible some twenty
years ago. And to complicate the
issue even more, those who
planned this moment would drag
out a Bible and depict it as being
the Bible of the Atheist, and homosexual, Lincoln. Hypocrisy at
the highest levels as this nation
turns its back on the teachings of
Jesus Christ because of political
correctness. And go on to tout
the speech of King when they
deny the Sons and Daughters of
the Confederacy a seat at the
Table of Brotherhood as they attack daily the symbols of the
South and the memory of the men
and women, Red, Yellow, Black
and White, who defended the
very principles of the Constitution that Lincoln and his minions
would so openly break.
Democracy and freedom for
people abroad, but none for those
of us who call ourselves
Southern.We have lived in an environment of hate for far too long
as the nation is duped by those
who hate us every year at this time
as they roll out every piece of written or visual propaganda to support their tainted accounts of a
time when man held other men in
bondage all over this land and
earth while denying their very own
complicity.
There will be no kudos for those
of us who will stand and denounce these proceedings as being tainted, or who will point at
the truth as our nation backslides
into the arena of nothingness without the accompaniment of the Almighty God as our utility. May not
only God help us, but may we all
take a Stand to help ourselves.
God bless you.
-------------------------------------------H. K. Edgerton is an AfricanAmerican activist for Southern
heritage and one of the few African Americans who belong to the
Sons of Confederate Veterans.
He is President of "Southern
Heritage 411" (www.southern
heritage411.com).
DOR Debacle Offers
Unique Opportunity
GUEST COLUMN
Roy
Harmon
T
he security breach at the Department of Revenue offers
a unique opportunity for us taxpayers to recover some of our tax
dollars.
In the wake of this unprecedented security disaster, the
state has provided us with free
credit monitoring for a year and
lifetime fraud resolution. But security expert and South Carolina
resident (and inspiration for the
movie “Catch Me If You Can”)
Frank Abagnale recommends that
we all continue to pay for credit
monitoring for more than a year
because none of these cyber
criminals try to use stolen data
within the first year. They wait a
few years and then they sell it.
So, for whatever these services
are worth, the state is giving us
some “free” security tools. But
they’re not really free. The state
is buying them with our money.
It’s not as though the state government makes any money on its
own. It only has what it takes from
us in taxes. The bill for the security we’ve been promised so far is
already at $12 million. If they de-
cide to provide us with any more
protection (enough to actually
protect us) that number will go up.
How is the state going to pay
for this?
A couple of ideas have been
proposed by the State Treasurer’s
Office to cover the costs until
state lawmakers go back into session. One is to let the Department
of Revenue run a deficit, so it
could pay the bills until state lawmakers pass a new spending plan.
Another suggestion is to have the
state loan the money to the Department of Revenue. But why are
we talking about loans or running
deficits when, according to the
State Auditor’s Office, the state
already has over a billion dollars
in taxpayer dollars available in
their piggy bank?
Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are spread throughout our state government agencies and institutions as unrestricted net assets – surplus resources that can be used for any
purpose. As of June 30th, 2011,
the Governor’s Office had about
$5 million in unrestricted net assets. The State of South Carolina
has $1.5 billion. There’s plenty
more socked away throughout
various agencies and all of that is
in addition to the state’s two rainy
day funds (the General Reserve
Fund and the Capital Reserve
Fund).
Our state government has literally taken more of our money than
it knows what to do with. At least
now some of that money can be
put to good use for the taxpayer.
Spend some of those assets on
cyber security for the taxpayers
who have had their identities and
the identities of their children put
at risk.
Of course, this is less than ideal.
Ideally, our government wouldn’t
take more of our money than it
knew what to do with. Ideally, taxpayers wouldn't have to have
their identities compromised before they could see their tax dollars again. Ideally, when the government “saved” money, that
money would go back to the taxpayer instead of back into the
government.
The problem isn’t just that the
state government is hoarding our
money, but that, when determining what to do with these surplus
funds, returning them to the taxpayer isn’t even considered.
South Carolina needs to lower
our state taxes, which are among
the highest in the nation, and create a taxpayer rebate fund so that
budget surpluses go back to the
Think PreK-14: Early College
High Schools + Tech Colleges =
Win/Win/Win for South Carolina
Students, Businesses & State
GUEST COLUMN
s a proponent of economic
opportunity for all, I am
thinking PreK-14 education. If we
don’t create a knowledge-based
workforce with at least a PreK-14
education – an associate degree
equivalency, I am afraid that South
Carolina is going to lose its economic development attraction for
knowledge-based companies. I
believe Greenville County public
schools and Greenville Tech can
model a solution for the state!
Greenville County is fortunate
that many knowledge-based, high
impact companies are choosing to
expand or locate here. They are
hiring skilled people for high paying jobs. The sad truth is that our
companies must recruit outside
SC to find all the qualified employees they need.
In order to continue to be attractive to high tech, high skill
companies, we need a highly prepared labor force. Too many students fail to graduate from high
school, and too many high school
graduates are not prepared for
available jobs or need remedial
education before college.
I believe the key to achieving a
qualified local workforce in a short
time is to establish PreK-14 as the
goal for all students in Greenville
and the Upstate. PreK-14 thinking means a student wouldn’t target only a 12th grade diploma, but
they would aim to complete one
or two years beyond high school
before entering senior college or
a full-time position toward a high
impact, high salary career.
I suggest we pursue several
goals:
1) Create a PreK-14 mentality.
Every student plans a post-high
school curriculum with their high
school and technical college counselors. Technical colleges like
Greenville Tech offer the best opportunity for PreK-14 partnerships with high quality, low cost,
high value courses easily accessible to most students aiming to
complete an associate degree on
the road to a 4-year or graduate
degree. Greenville has some wonderful PreK-14 models with three
“Early College” Charter Schools
(Greenville Tech, Brashier, and
Greer offering grades 9-14; plus
Legacy Charter on-target for PreK14). Build on these successful
models!
2) Reduce dropouts in all our
public schools. Wade Hampton
High School (WHHS) is exemplary. WHHS recently reduced
dropouts by 20% in 4 years - moving WHHS’s graduation rate from
65% to 85%. Let’s promote WHHS
success factors and duplicate
them in every high school. But
let’s aim higher – complete one
Tech certificate or associate degree in a local PreK-14 partnership
before transferring to a job or senior college.
3) Increase STEAM (Science,
Technology, Engineering, Art and
Math) Centers within PreK-14
partnerships, re-brand career centers as STEAM academies, and
maximize technical college
STEAM resources. STEAM students would take dual high
school/ college credit courses.
Some Tech STEAM courses prepare graduates for local high tech
jobs where current demand outstrips supply.
4) Enhance internships and apprenticeships to bridge STEAM
students with local companies
and workforce needs. “Hands on”
experience motivates students to
excel in both academic and work
arenas. Promote scheduling
blocks of student time in modular
academic classes and labs plus
equal time in actual work environments. Expand existing partnerships for increased connections
to occur quickly.
5) Emphasize four-year college
programs that focus on completing baccalaureate degrees. USC
Upstate offers a completely articulated curriculum with GTC at
the University Center and other
colleges also offer similar degree
completion options.
I believe a PreK-14 mentality
will encourage more students to
complete high school and reduce
the drop-out rate by allowing students to take skills courses of their
choice. Promoting PreK-14 education leads to certificate and associate degrees, is preparation for
a job, and is a bridge to a senior
college degree. PreK-14 is a giant
step in raising our percentage of
adults with an AAS, BS, or higher,
reducing unemployment, and raising average per capita incomes.
PreK-14 produces more graduates
who are ready for today’s
workforce jobs, and better satisfies industry demands for a higher
quality, more skilled workforce.
Greenville County School Superintendent Burke Royster and
Greenville Tech President Keith
Miller reviewed these ideas with
me. Both described examples of
existing cooperative efforts and
expressed intentions to expand
PreK-14 opportunities for all
Greenville students. Everyone
needs to understand and support
their plans to improve PreK-14
education.
Sam Walton said, “High expectations are the key to everything.”
In South Carolina, current K-12
expectations are too low.
Let’s aim for PreK-14 graduates
who are prepared for senior college and better paying jobs. Improved education achievements
will accelerate economic development, increase family income levels; and reduce crime, health problems, and other negative social
costs. We must win these battles.
-------------------------------------------Fred Payne serves on the
Greenville County Council, representing District 28. He retired
as Executive Director of the
Greenville Tech Foundation, and
formerly served as founding Director of Greenville’s ITT Technical Institute, President of Limestone College, and Vice President at North Greenville University.
taxpayer instead of into government piggy banks. The DOR’s
poor protection of our personal
data and its inept response to this
massive security breach should
remind us all that government of-
ficials tend to be poor stewards
of our money and should not be
trusted with anymore of it than
absolutely necessary. But while
they’ve got it, let’s make sure
they’re spending it on our pro-
tection.
-------------------------------------------Roy Harmon of Travelers Rest is
a candidate for State House District 17. He can be reached at
http://www.royharmonsc.com/.
Fred
Payne
A
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What Jesus was doing was assuring Simon Peter that the tyrannical Roman and Jewish forces
that were now using the sword
against Him would one day themselves be destroyed by the sword,
but that it would not be Simon’s
sword that would be the one to
do this. In other words, Jesus was
stating a divine principle that tyrants and despots who unjustly
rule with the power of the sword
would one day be brought to the
judgment of the sword.
Jesus’ statement had nothing
to do with Christians disarming
themselves in the face of tyrants;
it had everything to do with God’s
pronouncement of judgment
upon tyrants who force their will
on people by the power of the
sword. He was saying, “Those
who ruthlessly rule and govern
by the sword will be brought to
justice by the sword.” THAT is
what Jesus said.
Did Jesus’ promise come true?
You bet it did. A few years later,
the Jewish nation was destroyed
by the Roman sword; and a few
years after that, the Roman nation
was destroyed by the sword of
the Goths, et al.
This promise to tyrants is repeated by the Apostle John in
Revelation 13:10. Here Jesus inspired John to write, “He that
leadeth into captivity shall go into
captivity: he that killeth with the
sword must be killed with the
sword. Here is the patience and
the faith of the saints.”
The context of Revelation 13:10
is unmistakable: those who put
men into captivity by force shall
themselves be put into captivity
by force; those who kill with the
sword shall themselves be killed
with the sword. John then adds:
“Here is the patience and the faith
of the saints.” In other words, the
victimized, terrorized saints can
take comfort in the fact that God
will send His judgment to the oppressors in the like manner in
which they oppressed others.
What John said in Revelation
13:10 was a repeat of what He had
heard Jesus say in Matthew 26:52.
Jesus telling Peter to put up his
sword has absolutely nothing to
do with Christians willingly surrendering their arms to an oppressive government. Instead, it is a
promise to oppressors that if you
live and rule by the sword, you
will die by the sword!
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my sword.”
When on May 23, the citizens
of Virginia ratified the Secession
Ordinance of April 17 by a popular vote of 132,201 to 37,451; Lee
became a Major General in the
Confederate Army and was made
Confidential Military Advisor to
President Jefferson Davis.
Plans were already underway to
move the Confederate Capital from
Montgomery to Richmond. There
may have been many strong political reasons for moving the capital to Richmond, but it placed the
seat of Confederate government
under constant threat by large
concentrations of Union troops
with short supply lines to Washington. It therefore limited Confederate defensive and offensive
options.
Within a few months, two
smashing Confederate victories
demoralized the North and lifted
Southern hopes to unrealistic levels. On June 10, 1,400 Confederate troops soundly defeated a
Union force of nearly 7,000 at Big
Bethel Church near the town of
And since Jesus had commanded them to do so, we can
assume that His disciples carried
their own personal arms for the
rest of their lives. Yes, yes, I realize that the disciples allowed themselves to be martyred for their
faith. They CHOSE to not “accept
deliverance,” (Hebrews 11:35) as
did the famed missionary, Jim
Elliott, who was armed at the time
of his death, and, therefore, was
fully capable of defending himself
against the savages that attacked
him, but CHOSE to not defend
himself, and thereby accepted the
martyr’s death. But these examples have nothing to do with
the divine principle of lawful selfdefense, which Jesus duly recognized in His instructions to His
disciples.
Pray tell, how did Gideon deliver God’s people from their oppressors? By “the sword of the
Lord and of Gideon.” How did
Samson throw off the tyrants of
his people? How did Barak and
Jephthah defeat Israel’s enemies?
By the sword! And note that each
of these deliverers were commissioned and empowered by God to
use the sword to destroy those
tyrants that had ruled by the
power of the sword. This was
God’s promised judgment on oppressors for thousands of years
before Jesus uttered this eternal
truism in the Garden of
Gethsemane.
The Second Amendment guarantee that “the right of the people
to keep and bear arms shall not be
infringed” is as much a sacred
right as it is an American right.
The principle of armed self-defense is rooted in both Natural
and Revealed Law. That Barack
Obama and Dianne Feinstein
want to strip the American people
of this right should be met with
the most vociferous resistance,
and that includes FROM CHRISTIANS!
Yet, all across America, pastors
and Christians seem to be willing
to sheepishly surrender their Second Amendment rights. Some are
no doubt sincere; they are only
reacting as their Christian mentors
and leaders have told them is
right to do. Others are no doubt
using Scripture as a covering for
their own cowardice.
But for those Christians who
seek truth and genuinely desire
to know how they should respond to this current attack
against our Second Amendment
liberties, my son, Tim, and I are in
the process of producing a brand
new book entitled “To Keep Or
Not To Keep: Why Christians
Should Not Give Up Their Guns.”
This book is designed to equip
Christians with the scriptural tools
and knowledge they will need to
make wise decisions about the
defense of their family. We are
working hard to have this book
ready for release by early spring.
Readers may pre-order this
brand new book NOW and thus
be assured of obtaining the very
first copies of what is sure to be a
blockbuster book. To order, go to:
http://keepyourarms.com/.
And please remember that the
book should be available by early
spring.
I say once again: regardless of
what laws are passed or not
passed, I refuse to register or surrender my firearms–even if doing
so makes me an outlaw. But as
several readers pointed out to me:
in such a scenario, I am not the
outlaw; the ones who would try
to disarm me are the outlaws. As I
would not submit to a law that
demanded that I surrender my
spiritual sword (the Bible), neither
will I submit to a law that demands
that I surrender my physical
sword (my firearms).
What Simon Peter told the Jewish leaders in Acts 5, after being
ordered to surrender his preaching of truth, applies to any order
of men that violates God’s eternal
law–including the right of the
people (including Christian
people) to keep and bear arms:
“We ought to obey God rather
than men.” And so we ought!
-------------------------------------------Chuck Baldwin is a syndicated
columnist, radio broadcaster,
author, and pastor dedicated to
preserving the historic principles
upon which America was
founded. He was the 2008 Presidential candidate for the Constitution Party. He and his wife,
Connie, have been married for 37
years and have 3 children and 7
Hampton in southeastern Virginia.
On July 21, massive Union and
Confederate forces of about
35,000 each collided near
Manassas, Virginia. Northern
public clamor and political pressures were at high pitch by midJuly to defeat the Confederate
Army and take Richmond. Lincoln
gave the assignment to Brigadier
General Irvin McDowell.
McDowell did not believe his
troops were ready, but coaxed by
Lincoln, he proceeded, against his
own better judgment, toward Bull
Run Creek and the Confederate
Army posted to intercept his advance to Richmond. The Confederates under Brigadier General P.
G. T. Beauregard, advancing from
near the Manassas railroad junction, planned to strike first by
flanking McDowell’s left.
McDowell preempted Beauregard,
however, with his own planned
flank of Beauregard’s left, but it
was poorly executed by his inexperienced troops. Nevertheless,
McDowell seemed to have won a
slight advantage due to Confederate confusion. But Confederate reinforcements under General
Joe Johnston arrived by rail from
the Shenandoah Valley and
quickly intervened. The tide of
battle changed about noon, when
Union troops were unable to advance against one of Johnston’s
Virginia brigades commanded by
Colonel Thomas J. Jackson. Thus
evolved the nickname, “Stonewall.” for both Jackson and his
brigade.
As Union troops began to withdraw from Jackson’s “stone wall,”
Jackson ordered his five regiments
to fix bayonets and charge. His
famous words were:
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-------------------------------------------Laura Belknap holds a BS in elementary education, and has
home schooled her children for
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Jefferson lived, to have
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of distinguished guests who had
come to see his so-called
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Jefferson’s formal education
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James Richardson’s Messages
and Papers of the Presidents—
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“Reserve your fire until they
come within 50 yards! Then
fire and give them the bayonet! And when you charge,
yell like furies!”
This was the first time Union
troops heard the disturbing
“Rebel yell.”
Jackson’s “Stonewall” Brigade
was accompanied in this charge
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Confederates brought up their
close-action smooth-bore artillery
and began to shred Union infantry. These developments turned
the Union withdrawal into a disorderly panic streaming toward
Washington. This was the largest battle ever fought on American soil until that date.
Lee had played a major role in
organizing and training Virginia
troops prior to Manassas, but he
was left in Richmond to agonize
as others rode into battle. On July
28, Lee was sent to western Virginia to advise and coordinate the
restructuring of Brigadier General
Robert S. Garnett’s brigade of
2,300 men, who had been badly
defeated at Laurel Hill. Garnett was
himself killed in action. Lee found
the new commander, Brigadier
General W.W. Loring, however, to
be resentful, surly, and uncooperative. Having only advisory authority, Lee tried gentlemanly diplomacy, but it did not work well
with Loring.
On August 31, however, Lee,
Adjutant General Samuel Cooper,
Albert Sidney Johnston, and P. T.
G. Beauregard were made full generals, joining Joseph E. Johnston
at that rank. Lee was given a date
of rank senior to Beauregard and
Joe Johnston, causing some resentment by the latter. Loring’s
attitude improved but not sufficiently.
On September 15-17, Lee tried
to coordinate an attack on Union
troops at Cheat Mountain. But
bad intelligence, bad weather,
poor communications from Loring,
and measles, dysentery, other
sicknesses affecting half the Confederate troops, caused Lee to
break off the attack after about 120
casualties and withdraw. Lee then
went to the Kanawha River Valley
to help two small forces under rival political Brigadier Generals
John B. Floyd and H. A. Wise. The
two were so quarrelsome and jealous and of each other that cooperation was poor. Lee reconciled
them to their duty, but much time
was lost. As a result, an opportunity to strike a blow against an
advancing Union force was lost
before the Confederate forces
were able to act.
Although Lee never had direct
authority over the troops in western Virginia, he returned to Richmond with all the blame of Cheat
Mountain and Kanawha Valley on
his shoulders. The Richmond
newspapers made sure that burden was heavy. But Providence
was about to start Lee on a path
that would make him the most respected and admired general in
American history.
-------------------------------------------Mike Scruggs is the author of
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TV programs that laud terrorists as
heroes, to a recent poll showing that
56 percent of Palestinians oppose a
two-state solution -- that ignorance
cannot be explained as benign. Just
in the past week, Mahmoud Abbas
decided not to accept hundreds of
thousands of Syrian Palestinian
refugees into the land he controls
because Israel asked that they sign
a waiver renouncing a "right of return" to the Jewish state. He was
explicit: It's "better they die in Syria
than give up their right of return."
That's what Israel must contend
with. Perhaps worst of all is the tacit
hostility of Israel's formerly most
steadfast friend.
-------------------------------------------Mona Charen is the author of
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More than two dozen members
of Congress have spoken out to
oppose the sale of A123. Letters
have been sent to the Secretaries
of the Treasury, Defense, Energy,
and Homeland Security urging
consideration of the “potential
harmful consequences, including
any threats to domestic security,
innovation leadership, and job
creation.”
U.S. Trade Representative Ron
Kirk, in his year-end report to Congress, accused China of flouting
World Trade Organization rules
and misusing the complaint procedure to retaliate against other
countries. Kirk’s report also accused China of violating WTO
rules by forcing other firms to give
their trade secrets to China.
Especially since U.S. taxpayers
funded the development of these
assets, it is contrary to common
sense to transfer this cutting-edge
battery technology to China and
disadvantage U.S. national security. Whether we will allow
Wanxiang to buy A123 with its
new battery technology is now
under review by CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the
U.S.).
Tell your Members of Congress
to stop this giveaway of U.S. technology to Communist China.
-------------------------------------------Phyllis Schlafly has been a national leader of the conservative
movement since the publication
of her best-selling, 1964 book, A
Choice Not An Echo. She has
been a leader of the pro-family
movement since 1972 and has
authored numerous books.
The perils, however, are visibly
present. With its massive creation
of money, the Federal Reserve is
taking an immense risk that as recovery takes root, inflation may
explode. And the hostility between President Obama and
House Republicans likely means
no big deal to constrain future
deficits. Obama added $5 trillion
to America's debt bomb in his first
term, and his second promises the
same.
This cannot go on forever. Foreign and domestic creditors will
one day demand a risk premium
for lending money to Uncle Sam.
But it is abroad where the problems and perils seem imminent.
Iraq is drifting toward sectarian-civil-ethnic war. Few are optimistic about the fate of Syria when
Bashar Assad falls. Even fewer are
optimistic about Afghanistan after U.S. troops depart. The
Taliban of Afghanistan's past may
be her future.
Notwithstanding Obama's campaign claim about al-Qaida being
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stocks in the Sahel region of Africa, the Maghreb, and the Middle
and Near East, all the way to
nuclear-armed Pakistan.
In East Asia, escalating tensions between Japan and China
are spawning a new nationalism
in both nations, and now warships
and jet fighters of both have begun circling the Senkaku Islands.
The most immediate crisis may
come this year, when a re-elected
Bibi Netanyahu and his neocon
and War Party allies demand of
the president an ultimatum to
Tehran, followed by U.S. air
strikes on its nuclear facilities at
Natanz and Fordow if Iran does
not capitulate.
Obama may be dreaming of amnesty for illegal aliens and a Federal Gun Registry, but most of us
would settle for no more wars and
no double-dip recession.
Remarkable how the expectations of Americans seem so modest compared to what they were
when we were young.
Today, the minimalist slogan,
"General Motors is alive, and
Osama bin Laden is dead!" is
enough to get you re-elected
president.
-------------------------------------------To find out more about Patrick
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other Creators Syndicate writers
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... continued from Page 7
(expletive deleted) Yankees ... kill
their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers."
Called out on the hate lyrics, he
issued a hasty apology before
performing for the president and
his family last month. Instead of
rejection, PSY continues to be
courted by the American entertainment industry. He'll be working with Justin Bieber's producer
and will make an appearance in a
high-profile ad for pistachios during the Super Bowl.
At a Hong Kong awards show
last month, Chan and PSY met for
the first time. It was a mutual admiration society. "You are the legend," Chan said to PSY as a young
audience cheered on. "One day
you can make your dream come
up. All the young people, never
give up. One day your dream may
come true, just like him. So proud
of you."
"Yankees" -- especially those
whose parents came to the United
States from all parts of Asia seeking freedom from tyranny -should shun these exploitative
peas in an anti-American pod.
They don't speak for me.
------------------------------------------Michelle Malkin is author of
"Unhinged: Exposing Liberals
Gone Wild." Her e-mail address
is malkinblog@gmail.com.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
- At Your Service 04-17-13
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Draperies • Zippers • Leather
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332 West Stone Avenue
Greenville, SC 29609
Nancy Gilbert
(864) 232-6578
Hours: 8:30-5:30
Saturday 9-12
12-20-11
12-26-12
HACCP Certified
Wholesale & Retail Produce
6 Days a Week
2819 Wade Hampton Blvd.
Taylors, SC 29687
(800) 321-4944
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physical science services offered.
Charge is $25/hour, at student’s home or at a Greenville/Taylors public library.
Availability: May 23 through August 20, 2012.
Qualifications: Junior in mechanical engineering at LeTourneau University,
honor graduate of Baton Rouge Magnet High School in 2010. Completed all math
courses through Calculus III with straight A’s (this includes elementary math,
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Contact Information: Sarah Dennis, 225-573-5584 (call any time), or email
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12-20-12
06-22-11
C L A S S I F I E D
Beautiful and Unique
Broyhill Oak Wood
Dining Room Table
Center leave, China
Cabinet and six chairs.
Excellent Cond.
$2,450.00 $1,250.00
Silver Coins
Dimes • Quarters
Half Dollars • Dollars
$15.00 for $1 Worth of Silver Coins
Call: 864-901-7999
ST 4-24-11
Stanley Desk was
$895.00
Now $400.00
FOR RENT
FOR SALE
Maghomy Antique Dresser
w/Vanity Stool - 2 Antique lamps.
Price: $150.00 - Call: 246-5306
SALES/MANAGER
TRAINEE
Kitchen Maple Table
with six chairs
$495.00 $400.00
Three Bar Stooles Wooden for $75 $50 each.
WANTED!
YARD MAN!
Willing to work hard and will train.
Own transportation perferred.
Non-Smoker • Flexible Hours.
CALL 864-284-9440 AFTER 6 P.M.
FIRST EDITION OF BRUCE
CANNON’S TRILOGY, The
Centennial History of the Civil War for
$50. ALSO AN ORIGINAL MOVIE
POSTER called a “lobby card,” of To
Hell and Back, starring Audie Murphy
for $25. Call 423-8226 or 268-5364.
PIANO TUNING
ST 7-28-10
David J. Van Winkle
Piano Tuner & Technician
201 Old Batson Road
Taylors, SC 29687 • Call 414-3189
FOR SALE
LOT - Sherwood Forest, Sub
Division near Greenville Tech.
Call: 419-2797
THREE GAS STOVES for sale:
-Frigidaire Crown Series: freestanding, white, black door, 30" $150 -GE XL44: free-standing, white,
black door, 30" - $175 -Jenn-Air
Expressions Collection Downdraft
Cooktop: black, 34" - $200
Contact: 864.230.6675
Vintage 1974 Hammond B-3 Organ
122 Leslie Speakers
Good Mechanical Condition
$5,000.00 - 864-268-0899
FOR HIRE
Professional janitorial company has
immediate opening for a part time
evening cleaner in Greenville, SC.
Mon-Fri 5:45pm-8:30pm. Drug free
and background check reqd.
Call 1-800-717-4766. ST 07-4-12
Antique clock. Made by the Sessions
Clock Company, Forestville, Conn.
Keeps good time. $75.00.
Call 848-0368.
Handcrafted Barbie Doll Dresses.
Over 100 available. All kinds, from
simple dresses to evening dresses,
etc. $100 & up. Or make
an offer for all. Call 848-0368.
Portable (non-working)
Sewing Machine - $35
Sears XC1000 Exercise Bike - $40
Jason Constellation
Telescope 280 - $40
Call Mark Days at (864) 439-2525
FOR SALE
2 Car Ramps • $45 or best offer
Call - 244-2084 or 908-7301
ST-9-14-11
FOR RENT
VACATION WEEKS - Myrtle Beach 3 ocean front . Several other weeks some in Gatlinburg and Other locations
$500-$600 a week. Call: 864-2248366 - Please leave message.
Lots for SALE
Gallery Centre
FOR SALE
For Sale
FOR SALE
2 LOTS GRACELAND WEST
Headstone already there - $2000.
Call: 834-3064
ST 01-16-13
FOR SALE
FOR SALE
ST 02-01-12
CALL: 864-884-9833
864-704-9287
ACT NOW!!!!! Join America’s Fastest Growing Sales/Photo Co. Hire, Train and
Motivate Sales Force. Will train. $500/
wk to start. Benefits.
Call John at 800-253-6562
In the Heart of Gatlinburg, TN. Two Condos one
block off Main Oak Square at Gatlinburg. Courtyard
Pool w/Jacuzzi. Indoor Heated Pool Open YearRound. Two Night Minimum. (864) 878-2962
OFFICE FOR RENT
$600.00 per Month 292-1298
FOR SALE
Grandview Memorial Gardens Praying Hands Section
2 lots with Vaults valued at $5,580
Will sell for $4,380
Call 895-6116
FOR FREE
1 male and 1 female
18 weeks old vet checked
English Bulldogs for free
to a good home, please contact
andrewmiller1963@gmail.com
if interested or
for more information.
CEMETERY LOT
ONE CEMETERY LOT
Graceland West Side with headstone.
$995 • Call: 864-862-6809
Help Wanted
FOR SALE
Cemetery Lots
Need experienced help with
part time yard work: raking,
pruning, digging, etc. 4-10 hours
per week during fall season. $10/hr.
Please reply to
P.O. Box 1757, Taylors, SC 29687
Include phone number, address,
work experience and references.
NICE ANTIQUE DINING ROOM
TABLE with six chairs, solid
walnut for $950.
Call 423-8226 or 268-5364.
FOR SALE
Cemetery Lots - Cannon Memorial - Fountain
Inn, SC. 2 lots, side by side with vaults
$1500.00 EACH Call: 864-246-9034
ST-10-26-11
BJU Curriculum
BJU Curriculum for
5th & 7th grades
Homeschool Material - Very Good
Condition. Subjects include: Life
Science, English/Literature, World
History, Math, Bible and More.
Reasonabley Priced.
Call: 864-225-9099
FOR SALE
Ammo .223 FMJ - 1,000 rounds
$375 negotiable
Call: 864-242-3850
FOR SALE
1 suite length & 1 dress
length garment bag
Both $10 - 241-0921
Piano Teaching
Church Pianist Teaching
Piano in Boiling Springs (864) 814-4648
For Sale
FOLDING SHOPPING CART
$10 --- 241-0921
For Sale
For Sale eighty-nine Louis L’Amour
books, including 18 of 19 in the Sackett
Series. $2 each or $150.00 for all.
Call 848-0368.
For sale Weber Gas Grill; “Genesis
Silver ‘B’ Model” with cover, booklets,
and instructions included. Purchased in
2002. Used less than one season.
Been in storage since. Paid $500. Will
sale for $250. Call 848-0368.
MAUSOLEUM SPACE
Graceland East Chapel Mausoleum:
2 spaces inside, section 16, 4th level.
$8,400 OBO. (864) 850-0761
FOR SALE
SEVERAL MAGAZINES published
in tribute to John Wayne upon his
death in 1979. and Roy Rogers in
1998, includes issues of Saturday
Evening Post. Prices Vary.
423-8226 or 268-5364.
CEMETERY LOT
One lot in highly desirable section
“G” Near Mausoleum - $2,795.00
Call: 864-848-0368
FOR SALE
Two Adjoining Nitches inside
Mausoleum at Greenville Memorial
Gardens - Below Market price Call 864-235-2397
COMPUTER REPAIR
AT HOME COMPUTER
REPAIR SERVICES.
GREATER GREENVILLE AREA.
864-361-8701
FOR SALE
GRANDFATHER CLOCK
Howard Miller 2002, Cherry Finish,
Moon Face. esminister Melody. Cost
$1,100 - egotiable.
Call 864-325-0466
FOR SALE
1 Sleeper-sofa - $250
Call (864) 801-1383,
and leave a message.
FOR RENT
Near downtown. 1.5 mi. from BJU.
Nearly New 2 BR, 1.5 BA., 2 floors. New carpet.
Dishwasher. $675/mth. plus utilities. Parking.
Yard. No pets. Call: 901-6584
Green Career
Green Technology - Manufacturer seeks
reps. FULL TIME • PART TIME
Will Train. Excellent compensation.
Lee Hackney
Call: 800-383-9622
FOR SALE
1870’s Historic Victorian Farmhouse
on 4 acres and unrestricted in Belton, SC New
Roof / Changed Pipes $145,000 (Firm)
Beautiful, many updates - to view slideshow
go to: upstate200.com and scroll down to
#HW160. For more information call: 864-2425660 or 864-363-5746 ST-05-11-11
FOR SALE
Discounted Steel Buildings
BIG & SMALL. Get the Deal of Deals!
Placement to Site. www.scg-grp.com •
Source#16X. Call 864-642-4328
FOR RENT
OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT
Wade Hampton/Rutherford Rd in Taylors
Area. Reasonable Rent. 292-8580
VACATION
SCHEDULE VACATION IN RESORT
TO BENEFIT MISSIONS!
Call: (864) 246-7393 or
(864) 354-3895
FOR SALE
4 BEDROOM, 3 BATH
ALL BRICK HOME
with 18 brick arches, lovely atrium,
double garage and all brick 6’ fence on
large lot in Harlington, TX
Call: (956) 423-6094 ST-7-25-12
FOR SALE
Cemetery Plot Graceland Cemetery
$1795.00 • Call: 299-1329
If no answer leave message.
It’s for two people - double depth!
FOR SALE
VIZIO 37” flat-screen TV. Brand new
bought in June. $300.00
19” Color TV/VCR Combo - $50.00
Two wooden swivel bar seats
with backs - $30 each
Chandelier Matte Brass Finish
Eight “arms.” - $40.00
CALL 234-1255 and leave Message
ST - 07-20-11
BUYING SILVER COINS
METAL BUILDINGS
MEMORIAL DAY – Thousands off Factory
Direct Pricing Thru Early June – Available
includes 20x22, 24x25, More! While Available.
Call today! 1-877-308-4160
05-16-12
FOR SALE
A D S
The Times Examiner
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
ED MCKINNEY - GREENVILLE, SC
Charles Edward “Ed” McKinney, 77, passed away on
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at his St. Francis Hospital.
Born in Travelers Rest, SC, he was a son of the late James
Furman and Nettie Mae Williams McKinney. Mr. McKinney
retired from Regal Textiles, Furman Good Guys Golf Group, and
was a member of Second Baptist Church of Travelers Rest.
He is survived by his daughters: Lisa Tinsley, Tonnie
Young(Jeff), Angie McKinney; son: Greg McKinney; sister:
Shelby Jean Lane; 4 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
Along with his parents, he was predeceased by a sister Linda
Cawthon.
The family will receive friends Friday evening from 6 until 8
p.m. at The Howze Mortuary.
Funeral services will be Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. at The
Howze Mortuary Chapel with burial to follow at Mountain View
Memorial Park.
The family will be at his home.
Memorials may be made to the COPD Foundation, 2937 SW
27th Avenue, Suite 302, Miami, FL 33133.
Online condolences may be expressed to the family at
www.thehowzemortuary.com.
The Howze Mortuary, Travelers Rest is in charge of the arrangements. (864) 834-8051.
HERITAGE CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH
218 ALEXANDER ROAD • GREER, SC 29651
YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND OUR
SERVICES EACH WEEK
SUNDAY SCHOOL – 9:45 a.m.
WORSHIP SERVICE – 10:30 a.m.
CHURCH LOCATED JUST OFF BRUSHY CREEK ROAD
ON ALEXANDER ROAD. COMING FROM GREER TAKE
THE FIRST LEFT AFTER PASSING THE SUBER ROAD
INTERSECTION. CHURCH ¼ MILE ON THE LEFT.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
PASTOR KEITH CROWE AT 864-979-9626
ST 11-04-09
Hope Presbyterian Church
(unaffiliated)
20 Sharon Drive, Greenville, SC 29607
(864) 232-1486
Sunday School ............................................ 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service .........................................11:00 a.m.
Larger Catechism Class ............................... 6:00 p.m.
Evening Worship .......................................... 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday Prayer Service .......................... 7:30 p.m.
Mark W. Evans, Pastor
Preaching the Doctrines of Sovereign Grace
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RELIGIOUS NEWS
Next Week on Nite Line
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SAMUEL M. KEESE
GREENVILLE, SC
Samuel Marion Keese, 79,
went to be with the Lord on
Saturday, January 19, 2013, at
his home while surrounded
by his family.
Born in Anderson County,
SC, he was the son of the late
Hison and Hazel Keese. Mr.
Keese graduated from The
Boys High School in Anderson in 1951, enlisted in the
United States Air Force in
1952, where he spent 4 years
on active duty, serving as an
Air Traffic Controller. During
part of his service, he was stationed in Germany. Mr.
Keese was retired from the
Federal Aviation Agency
where he worked as an Air
Traffic Controller at the
Greenville Downtown Airport
and GSP for 25 years. True to
his long desire, he opened
the first off course golf shop,
Sam’s Pro Shop, in 1976. He
joined Green Valley Golf Club
in Greenville where he was an
avid golfer, met many endearing friends, and was a member of Trinity Presbyterian
Church.
He is survived by his wife
of 56 years, Ann M. Keese;
daughters:
Hope
McCorkle(Jim), Karen
Nelson(Mark); daughter-inlaw: Cherie Keese; brother:
Rev. Dr. Jerry Keese(Mollie);
sisters: Doris McAlister, Jean
Bolt(Wade); grandchildren:
Anna Ashby, Staci Keese,
Zachary Beale, Samantha
Beale, Stevie Keese, Wyatt
Nelson, Joseph Nelson; and
great-grandchildren: Lucy
and Capri.
Along with his parents, he
was predeceased by a son:
Steven M. Keese; and
brother: James Keese.
Memorial services will be
Tuesday morning at 11 a.m.
at Trinity Presbyterian
Church with burial to be private.
The family will receive
friends after the service in the
church fellowship hall.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Trinity
Presbyterian Church Building
Fund, 405 Wilhelm Winter St.,
Travelers Rest, SC 29690.
The family will be at the
home.
The family would like to
thank Vista Care Hospice, Dr.
Jeffrey Edenfield and his staff,
and especially Dr. William
Bonner for his love and care.
Online condolences may
be expressed to the family at
www.thehowzemortuary.com.
The Howze Mortuary,
Travelers Rest is in charge of
the arrangements. (864)
834-8051.
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Monday, January 28, 2013 - Danté Thompson and Margaret
Rainey welcome Pastor John Byrd and Bill Sneed from Redemption World Outreach Center's Cleansing Stream Ministry
in Greenville, South Carolina. John and Bill share how they
have seen God work in miraculous ways to help heal and bring
deliverance to hurting people through this ministry. Reverend
Marcus A. Buckley, the senior pastor of Riverside Baptist
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better disciple in order to bring the lives of people to Christ.
Greg Freeman of Walhalla, South Carolina, shares how he
celebrates the culture of the South by publishing Southern
Edition and sings tonight on the program.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - Keith Kelly and Pastor Steve Watson
host a program dedicated to promoting good health. Clinton
Fleming, a registered nurse from Simpsonville, South Carolina, discusses his work with local ministries to establish disease prevention and health promotion within Christian
churches. Dale Fletcher, of Charlotte, North Carolina, shares
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has founded and explains the connection between spirituality
and health. Phil Griffin and the Malachi Project, a band from
Atlanta, Georgia, spreads the word of Christ through their music
tonight on Nite Line.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - Bill Critser and Ann Critser host
a special deliverance program with guest Natalie Davis from
Kingdom Deliverance Ministries. United Worship Band from
Seneca, South Carolina, performs live music tonight.
Thursday, January 31, 2013 - Greta Campbell is joined by cohost Debbie Sobeski of Spartanburg, South Carolina. Debbie
shares how God has given her and her family the strength to
cope with the death of her young daughter. Echoes of Hope,
a Southern Gospel quartet from Spartanburg, South Carolina,
sings tonight on Nite Line.
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guests.
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Doug Langley introduced him.
McKenney, a Vietnam War veteran and author of several books
on various topics spoke about his
latest book that required 15 years
to research.
The book titled Jack Hinson’s
One-Man War was the story of a
Kentucky farmer whose two sons
were murdered by a Union officer.
Hinson had remained neutral and
refrained from becoming involved
in the war, however, a Union of-
ficer brutally oversaw the murder
of his two sons, and he spent the
remainder of the war as a sniper,
and killed at least 38 Union officers with his special made 50 cal.
rifle.
Hinson lived in a cave and was
never injured or captured by
Union troops. McKenney spent
years interviewing people regarding the activities of Hinson, eventually he was able to locate a few
relatives. Some of them were helpful; others were reluctant to speak
and took what they knew to their
graves. Sixteenth Regiment Com-
mander David Wright gave the
oath of office to six officers to
serve during 2013. Wright will continue to serve his 2-year term as
commander. First Lt. Commander
is Douglas Langley, Second Lt.
Commander Haywood Hitt, Adjutant Danny Durham, Asst. Adjutant Keith Pike, Chaplain Mark
Evans and Color Sergeant Robert
Bolt, Jr.
Following retirement of the colors and Benediction by Chaplain
Evans, Past Commander Terry
Grissop led the Lee/Jackson celebrants singing Dixie’s Land.
PHOTO BY BOB DILL
The Joyful Harps musicians Heather and Racquel Sheen flank
Mrs. Danny Durham wife of the 16th Regiment Adjutant.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
President General Stephen
Leishman leads 232nd anniversary
celebration at Cowpens
By Thomas C. Hanson
COWPENS
NATIONAL
BATTLEFIELD —The Daniel
Morgan Chapter of the South
Carolina Society Sons of the
American Revolution was host
Jan. 19 for the 232nd anniversary
celebration of the Patriot victory
at the Battle of Cowpens Jan. 17,
1781.
Stephen A. Leishman, president
general of the National Society
Sons of the American Revolution,
traveled from his home in Delaware to lead the festivities. Steven
Pittard, vice president general of
the SAR’s South Atlantic District,
led the Pledge of Allegiance to the
American flag, and John Slaughter, park superintendent, spoke
about the battle site. David
Johnson, chaplain for the South
Carolina Society Sons of the
American Revolution, was master of ceremonies and gave the
invocation and benediction.
In the 1781 battle, Patriots under Brigadier Gen. Daniel Morgan
decisively defeated British forces
under Lt. Col. Bantastre Tarleton.
It was a turning point in the reconquest of South Carolina from
the British.
PHOTO BY BOB DILL
A packed house attended the tribute to
Generals Lee and Jackson.
PHOTO BY THOMAS C. HANSON
John Slaughter, park superintendent, speaks
about Cowpens National Battlefield.
PHOTO BY THOMAS C. HANSON
Stephen A. Leishman, president general of the National Society
Sons of the American Revolution (left), with John Ramsey,
president of the South Carolina Society, at the Daniel Morgan
statue in downtown Spartanburg, Jan. 18.
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Stephen A. Leishman (center), president general of the
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