The attorney general is preparing for a massive lawsuit fighting tobacco companies for full payment.

The attorney general supports the most stringent penalties allowable when it comes to these predators.

It's a waste of taxpayers' money to fund a pilot project. We've already had one called the attorney general's pro bono project. It's demonstrated that prosecutors in magistrate courts work.

That was a concern addressed on the floor of the House last week. We certainly don't want South Carolina to become a state where methamphetamine is readily available. That's not the kind of message we want to send or the kind of state we want to be.

Constitutional law is under continual reinterpretation by the Supreme court. Attorney General McMaster supports the most stringent penalties allowable for these heinous crimes and will defend any law the General Assembly passes which seeks to stop these monsters.

Other than taxpayers, we might be one of the few winners in the recent unpleasantness.

It is now awaiting action in the Senate. Sometimes things move quickly and sometimes they don't. It could be a couple months. It has to go through some committees and then to the floor.

Had the judge not dismissed the case, there is a chance that this individual would still be in the program and a chance that those girls would not have been victimized.

If that's what it takes to get them to work these cases to prevent this barbaric activity, then so be it.

Now states are addicted to this money. The state, for better or for worse -- we are wedded now to those payments.