AltWeeklies Wire
Ben Tillman was a racist, terrorist, and murderer: It's time to take down his statuenew
I want to stir things up because there is a lot that needs to be discussed and resolved in this state. There are many generations of unacknowledged crimes that must be confronted. Talking about Ben Tillman is a good place to start.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
02-05-2014 |
Race & Class
South Carolina's ethics laws are a messnew
On the very few occasions I have found myself in agreement with Gov. Nikki Haley, I immediately step back and ask myself, is this some kind of a trick? Did I misunderstand her? But on the matter of South Carolina's desperate need for ethics reform in government, the guv and I are in complete agreement.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
01-09-2014 |
Policy Issues
Mark Sanford's victory is a triumph of ideology over decencynew
The good news is that Jon Stewart will have no shortage of material for The Daily Show in the foreseeable future. The bad news is that the good people of South Carolina's 1st Congressional District will hang their heads and deny their origins when they travel beyond the Lowcountry in the foreseeable future.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
05-09-2013 |
Commentary
The League of Women Voters champions ethics reform in Columbianew
Charleston County's legislative delegation has been making a lot of news lately, and not the kind that makes us proud.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
05-02-2013 |
Commentary
Dumb Like a Foxnew
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News makes people stupid.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
06-27-2012 |
Commentary
Herb Silverman champions atheism with wit and warmthnew
Herb Silverman has been a busy man lately. When I caught up with him last week, South Carolina's leading atheist was just back from the Reason Rally in Washington, D.C., where he addressed the thousands of people who had assembled on the Mall, calling for America's numerous non-theist organizations to maintain a united front in their ceaseless battle with the Christian right.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
04-05-2012 |
Commentary
Why do we keep voting for the same old hucksters?new
Standing before the cameras at North Charleston City Hall two weeks ago, Sen. Glenn McConnell looked like he was the one pleading guilty to ethics violations and resigning his office. Instead, the grim-faced politician was stepping up from the post of Senate president pro tempore to the office of lieutenant governor.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
03-27-2012 |
Commentary
South Carolina's War on Democracynew
Was it coincidence or was it destiny? In this state, which is eternally reliving its past, the two seem indistinguishable. On the day that state Attorney Gen. Alan Wilson swore to defend South Carolina's new Voter ID law in federal court, the General Assembly was debating a new piece of legislation that would effectively shut down voter registration drives in the state.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
02-15-2012 |
Commentary
And Newt Gingrich is about to make his last exitnew
In South Carolina, we live for this quadrennial moment in time, the Republican presidential primary. Not since April 12, 1861, have so many eyes been on our little state. And this political event evokes many of the same passions as did the firing on Fort Sumter a century and a half ago.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
01-18-2012 |
Commentary
Do the Mayans give us something to look forward to?new
For members of certain Mayan doomsday cults, please consider this to be my first column of the last year of the world. I will have more to say on Mayans and doomsday as the fateful date approaches, but consider this the warm-up to a big December finale.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
01-11-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: 2012 Apocalypse, Mayan Doomsday
The Republican Party has been taken over by kooksnew
It's that time of year when wags and pundits are supposed to gaze into their crystal ball and declare what the coming year holds. I don't have a crystal ball. Never claimed to. But I don't need one to tell you that 2012 is going to be a year of hard, mean politics in a state that is famous for bare-knuckled elections. And it all starts with the GOP primary in South Carolina.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
01-02-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: GOP, 2012 South Carolina Primary
Winter Solstice Reminds Us Who We Really Arenew
On Dec. 22, 2011, at 5:20 a.m. (UTC), the sun will reach its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. That moment will be the winter solstice, and it will come at the end of the longest night of the year.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
12-21-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: Winter Solstice
Delusion and Denial Don't Make Sound Opinionnew
America's greatest economic divide remains the gulf between the wealth of black families and white families. Between 1983 and 2007, that racial wealth gap more than quadrupled, according to a recent study from Brandeis University. At the bottom of the economic pyramid, at least 25 percent of black families in 2007 possessed no financial assets whatsoever to see themselves through the economic storm. And that storm struck in 2008.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: economic divide, racial wealth gap
Pedophiles and Politicians: who is the greater threat to our children?new
There is never a good time to be dragged into a child sex abuse scandal, but the Citadel's timing could not be worse. Dealing with the fallout from Louis "Skip" Reville's recent arrest would have been difficult enough.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
11-23-2011 |
Commentary
S.C. General Assembly Tries to Regulate Immigrationnew
South Carolina's politicians have never been afraid to drag their state into fights in which it is hopelessly overmatched both on principal and on substance.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
11-16-2011 |
Commentary
