By Stephen Millies
Richard “Alex” Murdaugh was convicted on March 2 of murdering his spouse and youngest son. Those are horrible crimes. So why didn’t the South Carolina prosecutor demand the death penalty for the wealthy white lawyer instead of seeking a life sentence for Murdaugh? It isn’t as if the Palmetto State has been shy about inflicting capital punishment.
Capital punishment in the United States was aptly described by John Arthur Spenkelink, who was electrocuted in Florida in 1979. He said, “Them without the capital get the punishment.”
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BJU Class of 2011 Adam Morgan, President of Majesty Music, is running for the US House of Representatives against incumbent William Timmons.
February 24, 2024 -- 02/24/2024 -- is the date of the primary, and I'm already seeing signage around town.
He learned his political lessons well at BJU, it seems:
South Carolina state representative Adam Morgan — chairman of the ultra-conservative S.C. Freedom Caucus (SCFC) — has officially announced his bid for the U.S. congress against embattled third-term incumbent William Timmons.
The proverbial Seven Trumpets of Revelation were sounded upon Morgan’s campaign announcement at the Historic Greer Depot on Thursday (November 16, 2023) – signaling a potentially Biblical beatdown in one of the most conservative congressional districts within the state.
But who is the staunch social conservative whose candidacy could rain down “hail and fire mixed with blood” (Revelations 8:7) on the head an incumbent already steeped in scandal and waning popularity?
Just what we all need, more civil "blood sports."
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South Carolina State University Homecoming Week
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📷 Lewis Hine 📷
Lewis Hine - Newsies, 1910 - Newsies: Newsies at Skeeter's Branch, Jefferson near Franklin. They were all smoking. St. Louis, Missouri.
Lewis Hine, Photographer of the American Working Class
Few American photographers have captured the misery, dignity, and occasional bursts of solidarity within US working-class life as compellingly as Lewis Hine did in the early twentieth century.
Lewis Hine - Breaker boys, 1910 - Child workers who broke down coal at a mine in South Pittston, Pennsylvania.
Lewis Hine - Little Spinner 1909, Globe Cotton Mill. Overseer said she was regularly employed. Augusta, Georgia. Library of Congress
Lewis Hine - Ten Year Old Spinner, North Carolina Cotton Mill, 1908
Lewis Hine - Little Lottie 1911. She was a regular oyster shucker in Alabama Canning Co. (Bayou La Batre, Alabama)
Lewis Hine -Little Rosie 1913. She was a regular oyster shucker. She was just 7 years old and in her second year at Varn & Platt Canning Co. Bluffton, South Carolina
As an investigative photographer, Hine chronicled the normalized labor abuses in US factories leading up to the Great Depression. Not only did he help introduce some of the country’s first child labor laws, he also revolutionized photography’s artistic use value.
Lewis Hine - Child laborers in glasswork. Indiana, 1908
Lewis Hine -Baseball team composed mostly of child laborers from a glassmaking factory. Indiana, 1908
Lewis Hine - Factory Boy, Glassworks, Alexandria, Virginia, 1909
Lewis Hine - One Of The Loading Boys In J. S. Farrand Packing Co. Baltimore, Maryland, 1909
Lewis Hine - Newsboys, Bridgeport Conn., 1909
Hine once argued that a good picture is “a reproduction of impressions made upon the photographer which he desires to repeat to others.” For him, an organized workforce was the epitome of empathy and mutual benefit, which he hoped to convey to the greater American public.
Lewis Hine - Empire State Building worker in 1931
Lewis Hine - Power house mechanic working on steam pump, 1920.
Lewis Wickes Hine
(1874-1940)
“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.” -Lewis Hine
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THE SOUTH CAROLINA SUPREME COURT JUST SRUCK DOWN THE BAN ON ABORTION PAST SIX WEEKS GESTATION
IT IS NOW LEGAL TO HAVE AN ABORTION IN THE STATE OF SC UP UNTIL ABOUT 20 WEEKS GESTATION
I COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD OF MY HOME STATE THAN RIGHT NOW
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BJU Graduates in good standing are mad too:
Bob Jones University either you have totally devalued the rigor and value of your master’s degrees or you have bowed to political expedience in taking the steps to confer a master’s degree in what will be only 6 months that Weaver is supposed to finish your program. Remember your founder said, “It’s never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.” In my 7 years as a student and faculty member there, you NEVER conferred a masters degree in 6 months to a full time student much less one who is politically campaigning and working part time to finish a master’s degree.🤥
Again, the rigor and value of your programs could have drastically declined since I was there, so I’d love to hear more about how you justify this 6 month master’s degree! If you wrongly grant it, you have TOTALLY devalued all the students you forced to work hard to truly EARN their degree from your school! I guess you no longer “do right till the stars fall” unless it fit’s your agenda and expedience.
Sad, sad, sad day!!!!😞
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