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ICE Wants Our Emails

ICE Wants Our Emails

When a government agency comes to an internet service provider demanding information about Americans because of what they have said...

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Revolutionary War History: The Race to the Dan

Revolutionary War History: The Race to the Dan

Most people think of wars being won by a series of victorious battles. North Carolina’s contribution to the last winning days of the American Revolution’s last phase was that it was the site of a great retreat. I attended an event recently that commemorated this immensely important action — called the “Race to the Dan.” We met at a new state historic site beside the Shallowford crossing of the...

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ICE Wants Our Emails

When a government agency comes to an internet service provider demanding information about Americans because of what they have said on social media, the provider should discard the demand, close the door or hang up the phone. The government is not entitled to rummage...

Revolutionary War History: The Race to the Dan

Most people think of wars being won by a series of victorious battles. North Carolina’s contribution to the last winning days of the American Revolution’s last phase was that it was the site of a great retreat. I attended an event recently that commemorated this...

Trump Promised to Be a Dictator. Now We Know Which One

It was already one of the most clownish (if sinister) moments in the Trump administration — the Department of Justice actually brought criminal charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn for sabotaging the president's big, beautiful reflecting pool. It then...

News From Around the South, 8/10 to 8/17

SOUTH CAROLINA: DNC approves 2028 presidential nominating cycle starting in South Carolina, Nevada The Democratic National Committee on Saturday approved by voice vote its lineup of six early primaries for the 2028 election cycle, kicking off with South Carolina and...

The Right to Be Left Alone

"The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. ... They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone — most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." — Justice Louis D....

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