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SOUTH CAROLINA: A Confederate Statue Fight Renewed: How this S.C. City is Looking to the Future Thirty years after a monument honoring Confederate soldiers was erected in the middle of Main Street in downtown Greenville, the marble statue atop a soaring granite base...
Alex Jones and the Freedom of Speech
“Congress shall make no law abridging … the freedom of speech.” — First Amendment to the Constitution The iconic language of the First Amendment can be recited by schoolchildren, yet it is ignored by judges in Connecticut when the speech has been...
U.S. Military to Stop Honoring Confederate Names
The Defense Department has identified more than 1,100 items that commemorate the Confederacy and has plans for removing or renaming some of them The Confederate States of America, the short-lived rogue collection of states addicted to slavery and its profits, will...
Where U.S. and Ukrainian War Aims Collide
To President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine, Crimea and the Donbas are national territories whose retrieval justifies all-out war to expel the invading armies of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Yet, who controls Crimea and the Donbas has, in the history of...Obiter Dicta
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NORTH CAROLINA: In a Private Park in North Carolina, Confederate Statues Are Rising Again A state law limits what can happen to a Confederate statue after it is removed. Valor Read More