By Richard L. Wolfe
A while back, Senator Lindsey Graham suggested that we pass a Constitutional Amendment to end the practice of granting automatic citizenship to “anchor babies”. Is Senator Graham starting to feel the heat from the “Tea Kettles”? Whether he is or isn’t, this is pure political pandering, nothing more and nothing less. He is smart enough to know that such an amendment would never make it out of Congress, let alone to the states; so what is he really trying to do? At first, Senator Graham was nothing more than an oddity or novelty from a Conservative state. Lately, he has really started to worry me with his support for amnesty for illegal aliens, Cap and Trade, and now this.
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Sunday’s editorial celebrates that the governor’s race is beginning to feature real policy plans instead of political theater.
Right around the same time last week when we were criticizing Gov. Mark Sanford’s apparent lack of regard for public education as a “core government service,” his former protege and possible successor, state Rep. Nikki Haley, was releasing her own education plan.
The gubernatorial race between Haley and her Democratic opponent, state Sen. Vincent Sheheen, has been dominated by issues of what one might call “personal transparency” lately. Haley built her Republican primary campaign on her fight for on-the-record voting and on related good-government bills she’s filed, such as new requirements that lawmakers disclose all their income sources to taxpayers.
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Friday’s editorial asks why the state is using its limited resources on a spurious program such as official roadside memorials.
Governments enter murky territory when they begin suggesting a preferred or standardized approach to very personal processes.
Such is the case with South Carolina’s recent foray into roadside memorial construction, an idea not so much faulty as simply extraneous. Earlier this month, the state Department of Transportation began accepting applications from family members of those killed in wrecks to memorialize their loved ones with an official sign, placed near the spot of the fatal wreck.
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