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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Maybe there's something in the water.
Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, a color lithograph by Currier & IvesAwhile back I stumbled across a saying: "South Carolina: Too small to be a country, too big to be an insane asylum."

Stories like this one keep that saying alive:

South Carolina will no longer recognize U.S. currency as legal tender, if State Rep. Mike Pitts has his way.

Pitts, a fourth-term Republican from Laurens, introduced legislation earlier this month that would ban what he calls “the unconstitutional substitution of Federal Reserve Notes for silver and gold coin” in South Carolina.

If the bill were to become law, South Carolina would no longer accept or use anything other than silver and gold coins as a form of payment for any debt, meaning paper money would be out in the Palmetto State.

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