Silent Attacks on Personal Freedom - During the first Trump administration, the FBI quietly spent $5 million on Pegasus, an Israeli-developed software product known generically as zero click. Zero click permits the user to download the contents of another mobile or desktop device without tricking the user of that device into clicking on a viral link. When FBI Director Christopher Wray […]
Moultrie family was among those fractured by the American Revolution - Many Charlestonians have at least a passing knowledge of Gen. William Moultrie, hero of the American Revolution, commander of a miraculous victory in the 1776 Battle of Sullivan’s Island. They renamed the fort there in his honor. Gen. William Moultrie File/Provided Moultrie was the originator of our state flag, and after a brilliant military career, […]
The Downfall of ICE Barbie - I’m the last person to defend her. For starters, I’m a dog lover and shooting a puppy you “hate” because you couldn’t train her to hunt pheasant is no way to win my respect. The fact that she told the story on herself in her autobiography, presumably to polish her image as a tough leader, […]
News From Around the South, 3/2 to 3/9 - SOUTH CAROLINA: Charleston-based company launches initiative to donate flags to schools ahead of 250th anniversary NORTH CHARLESTON — As communities across the country prepare to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary, a local company is set to donate 10,000 flags to classrooms nationwide. Allegiance Flag Supply, headquartered in North Charleston, produces hand-sewn American flags using locally sourced […]
Why? - A very bad guy is gone. We did it. Yes, we can. But was he a threat to us? Was his country? An imminent threat? Of what? Do they have nuclear weapons? How much of their capacity did we already destroy? Eliminating the nuclear threat? Regime change? I’ve been listening. I listened to the State […]
