The Power of Words
The Richland County Sheriff’s Department’s “Peace Officer” initiative is changing public perception COLUMBIA, S.C. – In Jan. 2018, the Richland County Sheriff’s Dept. (RCSD) became the first sheriff’s office, nationwide, to add the words PEACE OFFICER to several of its marked patrol vehicles,...
The Standard motto
Lift up a standard for the people The Standard newspaper has a purpose for our existence. That purpose is to present news and information that will help each individual and their family make better decisions based on truth and accurate facts. In addition to news, The Standard will present ideas...
Are The Present SC College/Career Ready Standards Quality Standards?
As a former educator, I found it very interesting that with all the talk about quality education reform needed in SC by our Governor, Legislators, SCDE, Administrators and teachers, that no one was listing the present in line with Common Core standards we have been using since 2012. Those...
On Being Politically Correct
Once again the left must find a person or group to place fault/blame for the problems of the day. It is no longer a surprise when I hear them attempting to place the blame on the generation that pushed America forward by learning how to work, save and advance their standard of living while at the...
The morality of life, death and doctors
June was a month of reflection on life, death, our values, and the greater good. We commemorated the 75th anniversary of the 1944 Normandy invasion (D-Day), which began the liberation of France from German occupation and turned the tide of World War II. In what must have been a decision fraught...
Progressive ideology undermining America
Beaten down and demonized, outward masculinity has all but disappeared in young men. The recent Democratic debates have revealed the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the modern progressive movement. In both debates, the common denominator was IN the clear attempts OF appeasement of the...
De Haviland portrayed heart and soul of the old South
A few weeks ago, Dame Olivia de Havilland celebrated her 103rd birthday and, with it, my own fond remembrance of her remarkable career and character. As a young girl, I used to watch Gone with the Wind and pray that I would grow up to be the embodiment of Miss De Haviland’s Melanie Wilkes, whose...
World history was changed at Columbia Army Air Base
In the spring of 1942, 80 men volunteered to fly a mission to lands unknown while at Columbia Army Air Base. The old Columbia Army Air Base was the breeding ground for a secret mission in early 1942, a mission that would ultimately change of course of world history. Just over a month after the...
European Church Under Attack
Throughout Europe attacks on Christian symbols, churches and religious markers and statues are taking place. Many sources report that where immigrant populations are rising, so is the attack on Christianity. In 2018, French police reported that 1,063 of France’s churches and cemeteries were...
Are plastic bag bans helpful? Think twice
12 years ago, San Francisco became the first city in the US to ban plastic bags in a very controversial vote which was mocked by almost everybody across the country. Fast forward to today and the bans are being celebrated across the country, including around the coast of conservative South...
Corkball in Olympia
“You take a regular size cork like you would have in a wine bottle and wrap it in masking tape. That is how you make a cork ball.” Jake Jaco pulls from his pocket one of the cork balls used in a tournament he put on in 1993 at his family’s bar, Jaco’s Corner. “It was a great game we played growing...
Feed My Sheep
American pastors are helping the antiChrist enemy when they don’t preach the unvarnished truth of the Bible! There will be people who don’t like it, are “offended” and may want to take you out back and hang you, but the truth is not a bargaining chip for gain to the real man of God. American...
Revolutionary War and the Dutch Fork
The Revolutionary War and the Dutch Fork is an interesting forgotten history to research. South Carolina’s discontent with England started in 1770. Lord William Campbell, governor of South Carolina had forbidden the South Carolina House of Commons to spend money from the treasury without his...
C.O.P. Through P.O.P
Community-Oriented-Policing (C.O.P.) through Problem-Oriented-Policing (P.O.P). Many, of the older police officers and police chiefs who are contrary to change, do not like the procedural requirements necessary to implement community-oriented-policing. It requires the officers to dialogue as...
Obama Scandals Fester Among False Witnesses
Many have seen me rant about the Obama Administration’s and Hillary Clinton campaign’s involvement in opposition research known as the Steele Dossier. Then the FBI and DOJ using Steele’s shoddy Dossier before the FISA court to spy on American citizens. Apparently, the FBI tried to corroborate...
Are Socialists Running a Shadow Government?
Recently, Politico had the nerve to run an article about Trump not building a wall and mocked the deal with Mexico. The left has gone so far off the socialist deep end they no longer see the obvious: Trump now has officially built a wall and Mexico is paying for it. It’s called a military wall and...
USMCA Trade Agreement, the Yellow Brick Road to World Government
Opinion We’re off to see the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Trade. The media is ready for Congress to don Dorothy’s red slippers and dance down the Yellow Brick Road to the Wizard of Trade’s creation—the United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement. The USMCA is that so-called “free trade” deal...
U.N. Security Council Pushes Arms Regulation
In the May 15th edition of THE STANDARD I mentioned the United Nations Security Council and some of its powers. Now its time to take a closer look at this part of the U.N. organization and its function in the One World Government that is to be implemented. The Security Council is made up of 15...
In the Pickle Barrel with Bill Pickle – On Being Politically Correct
Opinion A few days ago I received an EMAIL from someone who said sometimes I have not been politically correct when I addressed certain issues. Well, I guess I’ll have to agree with that statement. I try to be polite and thoughtful. But the truth is I don’t worry about being politically correct....
Where Have the Men Gone?
In 2016, the UK research company YouGov released polling results which should have sounded alarms in the UK and United States about the future of men in our society. The polls were of men and women across the UK and US, age 18 and older. The generational divide over perceptions of masculinity was...
Airport Discrimination Against Chick-fil-A
The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Office of Civil Rights announced that it has opened an investigation into two religious discrimination cases concerning Chick-Fil-A. The Daily Wire reports that San Antonio International and Buffalo Niagara International airports are under investigation...
Digital Convergence: Harmful to Children, Teachers
Kershaw County School District’s new Superintendent Shane Robbins has been selected as one of the twelve school district leaders to serve on the National Council on Digital Convergence(NCDC). The NCDC was founded just three years ago and uses a framework called Modern Teacher, which was only...
Border Hopping Children
Mexican Children working as human smugglers for Cartel Raising Pollitos, baby chicks, was common in the Barrios of Tucson Arizona. The term Pollitos reminded me of brightly colored Easter eggs in Easter season. The word Pollitos or “Polleritos” holds a grim look of nothing resembling colorful...
Newman Speaks to Educators: The War for Your Child’s Mind, Body and Soul
Education reform advocate Alex Newman recently gave lectures through SC. He was in Columbia at Columbia Evangelical Church in downtown Columbia and spoke to an enthusiastic crowd there on the pitfalls of modern public schools and the problems with the globalist antiChristian education taught in...
Baptist Apostasy
“Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.” Psalms 139:21-22 These are Powerful words! Not only to hate, but to be counted as enemies! Which brings up the question, have we been...
Baptists Adopt Marxism
“Southern Baptist Convention To Officially Affirm Marxist Critical Theory as Viable” read the headline at Reformation Charlotte. “The Southern Baptist Convention is gone. It is not, at this point, salvageable. It is time to start pleading with any churches that remain in the convention to come...
Navy Veteran, Partners Give Back
During his career as a Navy chaplain Pressley Stutts, of Greenville, S.C., worked alongside hundreds of non-profit organizations. Stutts says he became increasingly “frustrated watching good-hearted people lay everything on the line for their non-profit, only to come up short in raising necessary...
Floodwater Commission Honors Members
Colonels Steven B. Vitali and W. Thomas Smith Jr. were recently honored by the senior representative of U.S. ARMY NORTH for the Palmetto State, who recognized and commended both men for their service as members of S.C. Floodwater Commission’s National Security Task Force (NSTF) and for their...
“Hate speech” Laws Criminalizing Christians
Christian pastor David Lynn was arrested and handcuffed by Ontario law enforcement, and charged with disturbing the peace with “derogatory comments” in early June. This for preaching on a street corner at Church-Wellesley Village in Toronto, Ontario. Bible preaching openly in Canada is a criminal...
Arizona Border Wall Crisis
When the United Nations classifies a population of people under the United Nations Declaration of the rights of indigenous peoples, it affirms that indigenous people are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to...
The Standard Celebrates It’s One Year Anniversary
THE STANDARD is celebrating its first anniversary. The newspaper published their first issue in June 2018 and continues gaining wider readership throughout the Midlands area. The paper has a distinct layout and design along with news and opinion that impact the Midlands and South Carolina. “In an...
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