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Everybody has an opinion and I am expressing mine which no doubt will leave me wide open to the regulars who load up the The Lancaster News’ Web page comments. One detractor suggested I return to my “Remember when” days and leave the governing to adults.

Well, sir, look at the kind of job the adults are doing.

The Lancaster Dixie Boys 14 all-stars notched their third straight win in the District 10 baseball tournament at the Timken Baseball Complex at Union on Monday night when they blanked unbeaten York 10-0.

Chandler Neal, the winning pitcher, and Doopy Cloud combined to toss a one-hitter and notch 12 strikeouts.

Neal, who worked two and a half innings, fanned seven. Cloud, in two and half frames, whiffed five.

Neal ended the game, halted due to the 10-run mercy rule, with an inside-the-park home run. Neal also had a hit for the winners.

If I told you that, in a year when most state agencies saw cuts of 30, 40 or even 50 percent, there was one agency that got almost a 50 percent increase, would that strike you as being, well, wrong?

It certainly struck me that way. And last week I voted to sustain S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford’s veto of that expenditure.  But not enough other senators agreed and that funding increase was approved.

What agency got that extra money this year? The South Carolina Senate.

Here is how it happened:

Happy Birthday, America! This year, there will be 234 candles on your red, white and blue cake.

We celebrate our freedom going back to July 4, 1776.

That’s the day our young nation adopted the Declaration of Independence, which declared our independence from Great Britain.

During the American Revolution, the legal separation of the American colonies from Great Britain occurred on July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia.