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- Evert’s Electables
- American Lawfare in New York
- Timmons's Condescending Remarks of a Children's Christian Ministry
- Democrat Party Holds America Captive
- Are SC State Legislators Spying on Its Citizens?
- Are the Dark Ages Returning?
- Evert’s Electables - June 25th, 2024 Republican Primary Runoff
- Evert’s Electables Republican Primary - June 11, 2024
- County Council Candidate’s Shady Practices and Dark Money Ties
- 'Better Greenville' Dark Money Supports Both Republicans and Liberal Democrats
- The Times Examiner Endorses Steve Shaw for Greenville County Council
- The Assassination of Donald Trump and The Revenge of MAGA
- John Winthrop’s Great Hope, Exhortation, and Warning
- Cuban Missile Crisis II
Guest Columnists
To Fight Climate Change, Stop Fighting China on Electric Vehicles
- By Veronique de Rugy
Much of the banter surrounding the rise of China's electric vehicle (EV) industry and the implication for the global economy is misleadingly alarmist. When our government gets involved in such narratives, it calls into question the sincerity of its insistence that EVs are essential to an existential battle against climate change. If China's foray succeeds, the world gets cleaner cars and non-Chinese automakers are obliged to improve their own products.
A common concern among government officials is that while China faces strong headwinds, the country still might have what it takes to firm up its position and maintain dominance as an EV producer and exporter. Such worries aren't confined to U.S. officials. Governments around the world are melding to cut China out of the EV market.
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Christian Perseverance and Southern Victory after Appomattox
- By Winston McCuen - South Carolina
Outsiders travelling through the South often remark on the large number of churches here compared with other parts of America. Billboards with Christian messaging about sin and repentance and Jesus and salvation greet passers-through on major interstates, cheering some and vexing others -- attracting or repelling thereby -- according to the viewer's spiritual condition.
While the modern, more industrial and commercial, 21st-Century South is certainly far more lax in its faith, and far less Southern, than in former times, its comparative faithfulness, as a region among regions, is beyond dispute.
The South's persisting power to cheer and attract, and to vex and repel, is evidence of its persisting cultural life and identity, rooted in older and truer Christian practice. And this persisting power raises two questions for the Providentially minded.
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China's Economy Is Struggling. Still Want to Emulate it?
- By Veronique de Rugy
China's economy is struggling post-COVID-19. Growth is slower than expected, demographic trends are negative, youth unemployment is high, overbuilding has created a housing crisis and government indebtedness is ballooning. These are only a few of the symptoms ailing the country, and things could get worse. Did any of the Americans who not long ago wanted to implement some of China's top-down economic policies see this coming? Of course not. We've seen these pessimists make similar mistakes before.
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'I Have a Dream' Turns 60
- By Alveda King
Monday, August 28, 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, where over a quarter million people gathered and heard my Uncle Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - fondly remembered by yours truly as "Uncle M. L." - deliver his famous "I Have a Dream Speech."
"It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." Martin Luther King, Jr. August 28, 1968
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Politicians Make a Mockery Out of 'Emergency' Spending
- By Veronique de Rugy
Remember how, mere months ago, the debt-ceiling deal struck between Democrats and Republicans to avoid a government shutdown was touted as "an historic first step toward shifting government back toward common sense and conservatism?" The hope was that the spending caps in the deal would actually constrain spending. Well, it took less than two months for politicians to start evading the caps with an old trick: emergency spending.
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Corporate Mergers Are Under Attack, But Not on Your Behalf
- By Veronique de Rugy
Last month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a draft of proposed new guidelines for mergers and acquisitions. Sounds like a problem reserved for people who sit in board rooms, right? Not exactly. Such rules will affect all of us.
If implemented, the proposal will preemptively block private-sector corporate transactions with little regard for the actual impact on consumers. This power grab by progressives in the Biden administration would shift antitrust law from standards that corporations and courts can understand to a series of vague and ambiguous "guidelines" that only give bureaucrats greater power over corporate America.
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After the U.S. Credit Downgrade, Let's Talk About a Radical Budgetary Change
- By Veronique de Rugy
Fitch Ratings just downgraded the U.S. government's credit rating due in part to Congress's erosion in governance. Indeed, year after year, we see the same political theater unfold: last-minute deals, deficits and, all too often, the passage of gigantic omnibus spending bills without proper scrutiny, along with repeated debt-ceiling fights and threats of shutdown.
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- Undervaluing the Role of Culture
- The Real Agenda Behind Red-Flag Laws: Confiscations and Gun Controls
- Should We Blame the Budget Players or the Game?
- Why We're Asking the Wrong Question About the Industrial Policy Push
- Why NATO Was Obsessed With Ukraine And Is Now In A Panic
- Disney Still Reeling from Blowback
- Progressives and Populists vs. the Credit Card Market