CSA History Complex

CSA History Complex

With April comes an annual dilemma in Louisiana: How do you reconcile the considerable Confederate and Civil War history commemorated in the state this month, and the tourism dollars rolling in as the conflict’s sesquicentennial unfolds, with the anguish of slavery...
Pocketknives Down the Worry List

Pocketknives Down the Worry List

When Transportation Security Administration agents spotted three small knives in a passenger’s carry-on bag at Honolulu International Airport in January, they sent him back to check them. On his second trip through the scanners, they found the knives again...
Green Tyranny

Green Tyranny

Environmental activists and politicians would like you to think that we must love their regulations — or hate trees and animals. I love trees and animals. But you can love nature and still hate the tyranny that environmental regulations bring. The Environmental...
Equality in South?

Equality in South?

Facebook put the power of social media data to the test when it provided statistical information mapping the nature of change with the Human Rights Campaign red and pink equal sign. An increase in profile updates were strong with people in between the ages of 20 to 40...