Sunday’s editorial catches up with our local Muslim community as Ramadan approaches and on the heels of some divisive statements made in the presidential race:
GOP presidential contender Herman Cain made headlines recently with the vitriolic idea that communities have the right to keep mosques from being built in their towns. His worry, he said, was that Muslims are furtively trying to inject sharia law into the U.S. and many can’t be trusted. For the record, he’s wrong, and he’s admitted as such since.
Whether he truly accepted that his initial stance was way off base or whether he simply abjured in the face of strong condemnation, Cain apologized on Wednesday after a meeting with Muslims in Virginia, emerging “humble and contrite.” He further acknowledged in a statement issued afterward that Muslim Americans, “like all Americans,” have the right to freely practice their faith.
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Saturday’s editorial comes via The Chicago Tribune and takes a whack at the ongoing debt debacle in Washington:
In the Old Testament version, Joshua’s Israelites marched around and around Jericho, blew their ram’s horns, and shouted their battle cry. The walls of the city crumbled, and Joshua’s army destroyed it.
Something like that has been unfolding in Washington. Decade after decade, lawmakers and presidents of both major parties pushed entitlement, defense and other spending programs beyond what federal tax revenues justified. To defend their profligacy, they surrounded the capital city with walls made of myths:
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Friday’s first editorial lays out once again our support for taking the Confederate flag off Statehouse grounds:
Gov. Nikki Haley’s growing national profile may be accompanied by a growing inclination to call her out on the national stage. In Los Angeles this week for the group’s annual convention, NAACP president Benjamin Jealous challenged Haley to remove the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse grounds, where it has flown since a 2000 compromise.
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Friday’s second editorial applauds the achievements of the Surfside Beach Dixie Boys All Star baseball team:
It’s hard enough to win a state and national championship twice. But some hometown baseball players from Surfside Beach are now on track to do it three times.
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It’s time to take a hard look at our state’s lieutenant governor job, as Thursday’s editorial discusses:
“I have no interest in resigning.”
“I’m not going to resign.”
“I have no plans to resign.”
– Lt. Gov. Ken Ard on Tuesday
It’s a strong sign that there’s something wrong at work if you feel compelled to start issuing statements such as these. And we imagine there’s definitely some worry in Lt. Gov. Ken Ard’s office these days. Ard is feeling some stiff pressure from Democrats and some in his own party to step down in the face of a lingering campaign finance scandal.
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