Felony punishment for animal fighting is unjust
      This is the last time I am responding about this issue unless I am summoned to speak in Columbia, because, quite frankly I am tired of repeating myself. I am coughing on all the smoke being used to cloud the true issue. First, I don't appreciate BJ Mishoe of the Humane Society for insulting the l...
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Creative ideas, planning needed for health care
Letters to the editor
      By Frank Knapp Jr. Consensus is building among health care stakeholders in South Carolina about how to use new revenue from an increase in the cigarette tax. These funds should be used for health care in general and specifically to help those who cannot afford health insurance due to low income o...
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Thirty-something speaks
Freedom and the flu
Mike Maddock
      As I was lying in bed with a 103- degree fever feeling generally like someone who had been dropped from a second story window then kicked and beaten by a USC football player coming from Five Points, a strange feeling came over me. It was a feeling that reared its head between my shivers and bouts ...
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It's not a criticism, it's an observation.
Colorectal Awareness Month
Mike Cox
      Last fall, during my annual physical, my doctor offered me a deal. If I would schedule a colonoscopy, he would postpone the part of the physical guys hate more than a Meryl Streep Film Festival until I was sedated. I jumped at the opportunity to be in another world when he put the glove on. Since...
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Firewood for winter
      Arlee calls the Sheriff to report his neighbor is hiding narcotics in his firewood. Curious, the Sheriff asks Arlee how his neighbor put marijuana inside his firewood. "I ain't sure, Sheriff, but he's a smart feller. I promise, you'll find lots of dope hidden in the wood pile.
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