Not much of a “new era” for SC

NOV. 5, 2010 — The headline in a local newspaper Wednesday after the GOP sweep in South Carolina was, “A New Era.”

Really?

“Invest” isn’t a dirty word

OCT. 29, 2010 – It’s amazing how one little word can have two vastly different meanings.

The word? “Invest.”

If you talk to just about any financial adviser and ask about a tried-and-true, conservative strategy for planning for your retirement, it won’t be long before you hear: “Invest early and invest often.”

But the politician who touts the exactly same conservative strategy – that states, like individuals, need to invest early to reap bigger, good rewards over the longer term – is lambasted as a liberal of the worst sort who wants to tax and spend you to death.

Organizing by precinct is waste of time

SEPT. 17, 2010 – One of the biggest wastes of time in politics is all of the party organizing done at the precinct level.

Parties spend hour upon hour fiddling with lists and trying to get precinct-level leaders to spark neighborhood conversations and canvass for votes.

Get facts before getting angry

Anger seems to be America’s newest and largest domestic product. If all of the energy from mad Americans could be bottled, it would be a better and more renewable energy source than wind or solar.

Americans are angry at everything these days – other drivers, Muslims who want to build a mosque in New York, Republicans, Democrats, and, if you listen any to Fox News, the government.

Turkey offers opportunities, examples for S.C.

IZMIR, Turkey, July 16, 2010 – It’s almost mind-boggling how small the world is getting. Witness how Greenville Mayor Pro Tem David Sudduth could get phone calls on his BlackBerry, post photos to Facebook and send text messages to his children – while riding in a bus across the arid, deserted steppe of central Turkey.