As Palladian View Founder Karen Floyd says frequently, "A rising tide floats all boats." It is sad and telling on the NAACP that, rather than celebrating Senator Tim Scott's inspiring success story, they have to insult him personally in such a vulgar way; that rather than highlighting how they as an organization have helped lift people out of…
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About: Eaddy Roe Willard
Executive Director of the South Carolina Winning Women, Excellence in Public Service Series
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Bottom line - that's just cheating. When we allow our governments, whether federal or local, to "bend the rules", to do what's expedient today regardless of the consequences tomorrow, we cannot complain or or be surprised when we also become the victims of that expediency. We don't know, in the grand scheme of things, the purpose…
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Recently a young professional African-American woman told me that the veterans of WWII were her heroes - because without them and their sacrifices, she would not exist. She recognized that if Hitler had won, and his policies of Aryan superiority had continued, all humans of color would have been exterminated, or at the very least,…
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The general public applauds the use of cameras to catch murderers, vandals and thieves. We as a society shouldn't ask to have it both ways simply because speeding is supposedly less of a crime than others. Speed can still kill, vandalize and steal precious time away from innocent people in the way. If a driver…
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Obama should refer to his wife, who in a recent interview, called her temporary home "the People's House". Public officials use this threat so often when they don't get their way: ETV Presidents wail that they "can't afford 'Sesame Street' when donations or government funding lags; no one ever threatens to cut "Washington Week". School Superintendants (and Arne Duncan) despair…
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