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THE FOUNDATION "The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors." —Thomas Jefferson (1775) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 269 (some sources say 270), a bishop named Valentine was martyred for both his Christian faith and...

The Florida Panthers' pool lacks the high-end talent of the league's better pools.

THE FOUNDATION "Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." —Benjamin Franklin (1789) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1795, the Constitution's 11th Amendment was ratified,...

In the past I have written letters critical of some of Jack DeVine’s columns in the Aiken Standard, but today I write to congratulate him on his evenhanded column of

Unity is in our blood. We are the United States of America. Our traditional motto is e pluribus unum, Latin for “out of many, one.” Our pledge of allegiance declares

In a back-handed compliment to Martin Luther King Jr., local columnist Jack DeVine (20 Jan. 2024) laments that recent protests do not follow King’s “principled example” of nonviolence to oppose

Notable quotables from Joe Biden, Van Jones, Nancy Pelosi, Jack DeVine, and more.

THE FOUNDATION "National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman." —John Adams (1815) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference to be broadcast live on TV. Today, presidents are ubiquitously on all sorts of media —...

THE FOUNDATION "In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution." —Alexander Hamilton (1787) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1848, James Marshall discovered gold in northern California, igniting...

This week, we celebrated Martin Luther King’s legacy. For me, that brings back a flood of memories. As a teenager, I lived in Birmingham, Alabama, a city that later became