Is Failure Baked In The Cake In Glasgow?
“Colossal Stakes as Leaders Meet to Talk Climate,” ran the headline. “The Last Best Hope,” ran the subhead, which turned out to be a quote from President Joe Biden’s climate czar John Kerry. But these alarmist headings were not atop an...
News From Around The South 10/25 to 11/1
NORTH CAROLINA: New Monument Honors Black Civil War Soldiers In the early 1900s, two Civil War memorials — both honoring the Confederacy — were erected in the busy downtown district of Wilmington, N.C. They were meant largely to send a message of intimidation to...
A Press Afraid To Be Free?
In a week, the Supreme Court will decide if it will consider diminishing long-standing protections for the freedom of the press. Here is the backstory. In 1964, at the height of the Civil Rights movement, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed a jury verdict by an...
Stripping Military Bases of Confederate Names Stirs Passions
BLACKSTONE, Va. — Civil War history casts a long shadow in Virginia, the birthplace of Confederate generals, scene of their surrender and now a crossroad of controversy over renaming military bases that honor rebel leaders. In and around Blackstone, about 50 miles (80...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Massive Confederate flag flown over I-85 in Spartanburg down after court ruling SPARTANBURG — Roughly four years after the Sons of Confederate Veterans raised it over Interstate 85 Read More