Chip Brown

Teaching Associate in Politics at Coastal Carolina University. Served 18 years on Conway City Council and on the SC Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Senior advisor to USC's Civic Education Project.

The Impracticality and Futility of a Mass Deportation Effort

When a nation is faced with a fait accompli (such as the existence of millions of illegal aliens within its borders), the prudent and most promising response is to frankly

By Chip Brown

April 28, 2016

The Impracticality and Futility of a Mass Deportation Effort

OPINION: Political Correctness is a Euphemism For Self-Imposed Censorship

If an individual chooses, of his own volition, to refrain from the use of certain words, phrases, or characterizations that have in the past been part of his or her

By Chip Brown

January 27, 2016

OPINION: Political Correctness is a Euphemism For Self-Imposed Censorship

There Is No Constitutional Right To Vote……But Shouldn't There Be?

“In the era of voting wars, the right to vote is itself subject to continued partisan, regional, and racial conflict. It is time to resolve the fights and fulfill the

By Chip Brown

September 16, 2013

There Is No Constitutional Right To Vote……But Shouldn't There Be?

“In the era of voting wars, the right to vote is itself subject to continued partisan, regional, and racial conflict. It is time to resolve the fights and fulfill the

By Chip Brown

September 16, 2013

“I Am Not A Member Of Any Organized Political Party. I Am A ____________.”

Will Rogers’ quip, “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat,” at the time he made it, contained as much truth as it did

By Chip Brown

July 19, 2013

“I Am Not A Member Of Any Organized Political Party. I Am A ____________.”

Will Rogers’ quip, “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat,” at the time he made it, contained as much truth as it did

By Chip Brown

July 19, 2013

Could Syria Be Our Next War In the Middle East? by Chip Brown

By laying down a “red line,” Pres. Obama probably set himself up to be pushed into taking the first steps to get the U.S. “involved” in what amounts to

By Chip Brown

June 15, 2013

Should The President of the United States Be Elected By Popular Vote? by Chip Brown

As a Congressional Research Service report (CRS Report RL32612) characterized the process, the President of the United States is elected “…under a complex arrangement of constitutional provisions, federal and state

By Chip Brown

June 10, 2013

Curing The U.S. Senate of Dysfunction: Limit The Filibuster

The putative justification for the use of the filibuster in the U.S. Senate is to protect the rights of the legislative minority and to ensure that legislative proposals, especially

By Chip Brown

June 4, 2013

The Logic of the Health Insurance Mandate

When I first read the arguments in favor of an individual health insurance mandate advanced by the conservative Republicans who originated the idea, I must admit that their rationale struck

By Chip Brown

May 2, 2013

The Logic of the Health Insurance Mandate