Obiter Dicta

Stop the Scam

Stop the Scam

Eager to accept a luxury airliner from the government of Qatar, President Donald Trump is testing the limits of Republicans on...

read more

CSA

How Disobeyed Orders Led to the Largest Confederate Surrender of the Civil War

How Disobeyed Orders Led to the Largest Confederate Surrender of the Civil War

When Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, he surrendered an estimated 28,000 Confederate troops. Many remember this moment as the end of the American Civil War, but it wasn't the last army to give up to federal troops. Appomattox might have been the most famous surrender in the war, but it wasn't the largest....

read more

Recent Articles

Stop the Scam

Eager to accept a luxury airliner from the government of Qatar, President Donald Trump is testing the limits of Republicans on Capitol Hill. Usually eager to behave like the servile puppies that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) once described with scorn (before becoming one...

News From Around the South, 5/12 to 5/19

WEST VIRGINIA: On This Day, The American Middle Class Was Born In A Gunfight A dozen armed men wearing dark suits stepped off the noon train in Matewan, West Virginia, on Wednesday, May 19, 1920. Residents knew this was trouble. Out-of-work coal miners, in town to...

On Education, Mississippi Shows the Way

Mississippi leads the nation. That's not a typographical error. And it's not just a gotcha phrase, preparing the reader for learning that Mississippi leads the nation on all sorts of negative things. Once upon a time, that was true, and in some respects it still is....

Other Links