Can South Carolina’s Legislative State Ever Be Fixed?

IT’S NOT AS SIMPLE AS SOME WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE
By Jimmy G. Wiles || A month ago Cindi Ross Scoppe, associate editor of The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper, devoted her Sunday column to an expose of South Carolina’s “Legislative State.”  Every South Carolina voter should have read her column.
Unfortunately, because of U.S. Senator Jim DeMint’s [...]

Wiles: Chelsea And The Family Business

By James G. Wiles || Once a Clinton, always a Clinton.
Sunday’s New York Times featured, as the lead article in its Style section, a heartwarming profile of Chelsea Clinton. In particular, the piece — obviously intended to introduce the Third Clinton to Times readers and opinion-leaders everywhere — addressed her career(s) so far and the [...]

Wiles: Meet The New SC Seventh District

By James G. Wiles || One year from today, November 6, 2012, voters in Horry and seven other South Carolina counties will go to the polls to elect a President, a Vice President and, for the first time since 1992, their own Congressman.
The boundaries of the new South Carolina seventh congressional district were approved by [...]