Walter Rhett
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October 14, 2009
What's the history of the Nobel Peace Prize and the 120 people who have been honored since 1901? Who decides? Here's an in-depth review that views Nobel history and controversy, public and political reaction, and shares the voices of Prize winners and their concerns.
September 14, 2009
Joe Wilson's outburst was not about health care or public discourse. Instead, it's a south Carolina tradition.
August 28, 2009
Observations from a Senate meeting room on the passage of the King Holiday bill.
August 27, 2009
Remembering Kennedy at the passage of the King holiday bill.
August 05, 2009
What Michelangelo could do with a brushstroke, Pat could do with her toe.
July 23, 2009
Jim DeMint leads the resistance to Obama's call for health reform. But at home, in SC, how well has DeMint's politics worked?
July 18, 2009
Which way American foreign policy? An analysis of at two competing models.
July 17, 2009
Tina Brown, the tired and flamed-out gossip columnist, New Yorker editor who was once thrown out of 3 English boarding schools, branched out last week into foreign territory. Publisher of The Daily Beast, a website that combines soft journalism and celebrity gossip, Brown flanked the mainstream and ...
July 01, 2009
Nobel winner and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman bluntly concluded many House members "were not interested in the truth." For their no votes against the Clean Energy bill, Krugman accused them of treason. His column also puts forth evidence for a second count.
July 01, 2009
Lonnie Randolph, state president of South Carolina's NAACP chapters, is just flat wrong when he touted that paying tribute to Confederate soldiers is the same as honoring Hitler. The comparison made great fodder for headlines, and the South's oldest daily, Charleston's Post and Courier, stripped it ...
June 23, 2009
Part two of a series examining new and emerging American political attitudes.
June 22, 2009
Throw the old script away! It is boring and predictable to watch talk shows or listen to politicians. All we hear are one sided messages, delivered by attractive people whose verbal fluency and point-scoring aphorisms substitute for trust, truth and expertise.
As we watch and listen we would...
June 20, 2009
A movement based on unarticulated new principles is shaping the destiny of political power and diaogue in countries from Peru to Iran.
June 16, 2009
Dangers and wonders lie in a world invisible to our lives. Take a peek at the huge impact of the latest in the world of atoms and light particles.