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Since the museum has already explicitly stated Roosevelt had 'troubling views on race,' its condemnation is not merely of the monument, but of the man. As the woke mob continues its crusade, pillaging cities and purging history, the next victim of the “tear it all down” impulse is Theodore Roosevelt, or at least a statue of him. But if Teddy is so problematic he must be canceled, mustn’t we also cleanse all the artifacts connected to his legacy, including thousands of animals?The desecraters never intended to stop at Confederate monuments, of course, and now the sculpture honoring the 26th president...

Conservationists' lawsuit targets Conway's Grainger Steam Plant By KATHY ROPP Editor Three environmental groups have filed a lawsuit asking a judge to force Santee Cooper to move two ash coal impoundments away from Conway’s Grainger Steam Plant and to clean up the contamination along the Waccamaw River that they claim the ash coal has caused. In the lawsuit, filed this week in Horry County court, the Conservation Groups claim that the impoundments are unlined, so contaminants, including arsenic, a known carcinogen, have been leeching into the Waccamaw River. According to the lawsuit, tests of wells near the Grainger Plant have...

The budget stalemate between the right and the left comes down to a basic difference in economic views, the left feels that we need to tax more in order to consume more money, and the right believes that we need to consume less money in order to tax less. Whichever side of the argument you come down on, it's not hard to see which of these positions is fundamentally unsustainable. And it is amazing that the same people who can and do lecture for hours on environmental sustainability, seem to have no grasp of economic sustainability. If you tell them...

The fortune he earned on Wall Street helped Bert Fingerhut's conservation efforts in the American West....but the former banking executive orchestrated a complex scheme that cheated banks and depositors out of more than $12 million........he contributed tens of thousands of dollars to candidates, mostly congressional Democrats.

Mark Sanford Feb 23, 2007 I will admit that I am torn when it comes to the debate over climate control. Intuitively it makes sense to me that the increasingly rapid industrialization of the planet is adversely impacting the environment. But on the other hand there seems to be a strong body of evidence that the doom and gloom global warming alarmists like Al Gore have overstated their case in order to scare citizens into joining their crusade. What has always made sense to me is the idea that the Republican Party has badly fumbled away the issue of the...

Archie Belaney's life of deception brought his cause to the worldAlmost as soon as the man known as Grey Owl died in a Prince Albert, Sask., hospital on April 13, 1938, his many secrets began to emerge into the open air. That same day, The North Bay Nugget ran a story it had sat on for three years, revealing that the famous Indian naturalist was actually an Englishman named Archie Belaney. And not just any Englishman, it eventually turned out, but a binge-drinking bigamist who had had five "wives." His closest supporters, especially Lovat Dickson, the Canadian-born London publisher who...