Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

Time for Mormons to Come to Terms with Church History - Election-year scrutiny sheds light on disaffiliation, controversy.

Girl with a Pearl Earring returning to US - One of the best-known works of the Dutch Golden Age is returning to the United States for the first time in nearly two decades. Johannes Vermeer’s masterpi...

Senate Bill Seeks to Make Top Insurance Post an Elected Position - Five years after Grand Strand legislators failed in a bid to change the S.C. Department of Insurance director’s office to an elected position from an appoi...

Nature, Nurture, Fortune, Will - Last spring, I put the following terms on the board at the end of my Shakespeare class and asked students to vote on which term they felt was most import...

Townhouses on Bull St. - Bull St., Charleston, S.C.This stretch of tall masonry town homes always reminds me of Savannah. But they aren't, ha! They are right here in Charleston. Si...

Opinion: GOP and The Millenials: Can The Connection Be Made? - Strategy is important in politics. In fact, strategy in many aspects is the definition of politics itself. Strategy decides the present. More importantly, ...

SC, NH voters search internet for Santorum, intrigued by what they find - With the photo finish in the Iowa caucus now over, the pressure is now on Republican voters in New Hampshire and South Carolina to choose from the newly re...

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Graham’s Judicial Flip-Floppery - by Mark Byrnes Flip-flops are fairly common in politics, but this one is a doozy. Eight years ago, shortly after joining the Senate, Lindsey Graham conside...