Suddenly Accountable: For Social Media Giants, the Party May Be Over - There is lore about the 1862 meeting between Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” — the influential novel about slavery — and former President Abraham Lincoln. “So,” President Lincoln is reported to have greeted her, “you’re the woman who wrote the book that made this great war.” History doesn’t indicate whether Lincoln made […]
News From Around the South, 4/6 to 4/13 - Louisiana: Legislators could use their campaign cash for clothing if bill passes Louisiana lawmakers might lift a prohibition on using their campaign and political action committee funding to purchase clothing for themselves. State Rep. Jason DeWitt, R-Tioga, has sponsored House Bill 996 to allow state legislators to spend up to $2,500 per year from their political accounts […]
Killing and Indifference - Is personal freedom a reality or a myth? Does the government execute the will of the governed or the will of those who finance its officials? Does the Bill of Rights restrain the government? Are the levers of government power pulled by those the governed have elected or those we don’t see? Do elections change […]
Echoes of Shiloh: Myth, Media, and the Civil War Landscape - by M. A. Kleen “There were men from every nation laid on those bloody plains, Fathers, sons, and brothers were numbered with the slain” – “Shiloh’s Hill,” M.G. Smith, Company C, 2nd Texas Infantry The acting left something to be desired, and the animated maps were decidedly pre-digital, but in my adolescent mind, the 1987 Classic […]
Did You Really Think Trump Would Lower Prices? - Donald Trump’s assault on our democratic institutions did not stop voters from giving him a second term. The top reason they cited for reelecting him was the economy, notably their unhappiness over high prices. During the campaign, Trump promised to “bring prices down, starting on Day One.” How he would do this was left to […]
