Whatever Happened to the Freedom of Speech? - When James Madison was a member of Congress in 1791 and charged with drafting the Bill of Rights, he made two grammatical demands. One was that the word “the” precede “freedom of speech” in the First Amendment, and the other was a command in the Ninth Amendment that the “rights retained by the people,” rights […]
Evidence of a monumental struggle emerges as volunteers clear Civil War battle site - RIDGELAND — Cathy DeCourcy, treasurer of the Friends of Honey Hill Battlefield, zipped around the location of the 1864 battle behind the wheel of a side-by-side ATV, delivering water, snacks and encouragement to the teams of volunteers dispersed across the 75-acre site on a bright spring morning. Her clothes were still a little wet from a spill […]
A Turning Point for American Foreign Policy? - Was the passage by the House last Saturday and the Senate on Tuesday of the foreign aid package with money for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan a turning point in American foreign policy? It certainly was a turnabout in rhetoric and in partisan behavior. House Speaker Mike Johnson led the narrowly Republican House to pass by […]
News From Around the South 4/22 to 4/29 - Archaeologists working on a project to rehabilitate the foundation of George Washington’s Mount Vernon, VA home made a stunning discovery when they unearthed two intact bottles of cherries from the hardened dirt of the mansion’s basement. Although the discovery of the first bottle was made last November, an excavation team only got to work removing the bottle […]
Killing the Constitution - In the last days of East Germany, when government officials detected that their power was unraveling, they ratcheted up enforcement of the nation’s reporting laws. The reporting laws made it a felony to know of a crime and fail to report it. It was also a crime to tell the person of whose crime you […]
