Shoot First, Ask Questions When?
The United States is engaged in summary executions on the high seas. That bald fact is being obscured by talk of drug interdiction and war powers and whether we’re certain the drugs on those boats were headed for the United States or somewhere else. Let’s...
American Folklore Is More Than Just Scary Stories; It Carries a Value System
DONEGAL, Pennsylvania — It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You’re hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere along the Westmoreland-Somerset County lines. It is 19 minutes until sunset, and you have just over a mile to go,...
News From Around the South 10/20 to 10/27
SOUTH CAROLINA: Sword swap: Statue of general who died after Battle of Camden briefly disarmed for repair A statue in Maryland’s capital honoring Maj. Gen. Baron Johann DeKalb is looking a little different lately. The 139-year-old bronze statue on the south side of...
A Trumpian Headache
President Donald Trump’s use of the U.S. military to kill persons on speed boats in international waters, or in territorial waters claimed by other sovereign nations — all 1,500 miles from the U.S. — has posed grave issues of due process. The...Obiter Dicta
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Confederate statue restored as part of Trump’s efforts to reshape how history is told WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Read More