News From Around the South, 11/17 to 11/24 - TEXAS: Texas education board debates narrowing focus of history curriculum In September, the board adopted a plan that emphasizes Texas and U.S. history, while reducing focus on world history and cultures. AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) is moving forward with discussions of changes to how public schools teach social studies. […]
How Low Can Deviancy Go? - The central scandal in the Epstein’s sex abuse ring targeting children is not the sex. It’s the children. What powerful men do with grown-up women — that is, females 18 or older — bothers me little. I never cared much about Donald Trump’s assignation with porn star Stormy Daniels. Other Trump critics tried to pile […]
What Is The Seawee Shell Ring? - Visitors come from all over the globe to see Charleston’s beautiful, centuries-old historic buildings. Yet very few people — even locals — ever make the half-hour drive to Awendaw to see what may be the Lowcountry’s oldest, and most mysterious, man-made structure: the Sewee Shell Ring. A one-mile footpath through the Francis Marion National Forest […]
What the Founders Feared - “The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” — James Madison (1751-1836) America today would terrify the Founding Fathers. Armed troops roam the streets of major cities, masked government agents arrest people without probable cause and disrupt the public speech that the president hates and fears, and […]
News From Around the South, 11/10 to 11/17 - GEORGIA: The Military History Hidden Under Today’s Chamblee This week, on Veterans Day 2025, angling through 5 p.m. Atlanta traffic with my aging vehicle in need of repair, I was attempting to get to the Chamblee dealership before it closed. Credit: Jeff Hullinger The rush hour conga line of trucks, cars, SUVs and buses made […]
