The Inexplicable War - Why are we there? Is it because Israel was going to go there first/anyway, or because we wanted Israel to go? What are we doing there? Did we really bomb a girls’ school? How could we have made such a mistake? How can we not take responsibility if we did? You hear it all from […]
News From Around the South, 3/9 to 3/16 - Mississippi-set Sinners wins four Academy Awards Sinners’ extraordinary run has finally come to an end at the Oscars 2026, nearly a year after it was first released in theaters. Ryan Coogler’s Southern Vampire drama had been surging coming into tonight, scoring more Oscar nominations than any other film in history, with 16, and winning the Actor Awards’ coveted […]
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, […]
