Published Saturday, September 20, 2008
THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW
Helping the police
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
One of the most disturbing local trends in criminal activity is the unwillingness of witnesses to help police deal with public disturbances. Not long ago about 50 teenagers were present when shotgun shot peppered the crowd, injuring two young children, yet nobody would provide information. The trouble occurred in the Douglass Park area.
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OPEN COLUMN
Elect the smart candidate for once
Editor, the Tribune: We’ve tried the dumb guy the last eight years, and look where it has gotten us - a sinking economy, a housing crisis, a credit crisis, a shift from a budget surplus to a record-setting budget deficit, a bear market, an unnecessary war in Iraq and an international reputation that isn’t worth a pitcher of warm spit.
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Palin lacks tolerance, truthfulness and tact
Editor, the Tribune: Sarah Palin must have good qualities or she wouldn’t be governor of Alaska. However, she lacks three that are necessary for better national and world leadership: truthfulness, tact and tolerance.
Election is heavy on lies and skimps on truth
By LEONARD PITTS JR.
For the record: Sarah Palin did not call dinosaurs "lizards of Satan." Barack Obama is not a Muslim. That list of books Palin supposedly wants to ban is a fake. Obama doesn’t refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance. The picture of Palin wearing a flag bikini and hefting a gun is a fraud. Obama is, too, a U.S. citizen. Palin doesn’t want Alaska to secede.
Leave it to feds to mismanage a crisis
By BILL O’REILLY
Once again the federal government has left Americans in a precarious state as a terrible storm is passing through the U.S. economy. Like Hurricane Katrina, some folks thought the government could keep them from harm, but, as in New Orleans, things have gotten out of control quickly as bad housing loans have shredded the economy.
