A Confederate spy in Canada

It was one of the most daring – and some say crazy – events of the Civil War. In 1864, a small band of Confederate soldiers launched a surprise attacks on St. Albans, Vermont. The attack, which included robbing and burning the small town, was the northernmost...

Hillary v. Benghazi Truth

The liberal media consistently dismiss or condemn hearings into Obama scandals as unnecessary and rabidly partisan, and reach those conclusions before said hearings even begin. That might explain why the public doesn’t always line up with that opinion. A new...

News from Around the South 5/26 – 6/2

ALABAMA: Citizens Divided on Confederate Holiday Alabama state offices closed Monday for an annual holiday that some residents celebrate, others would like to eliminate and some just don’t understand: Jefferson Davis’s birthday. The Confederacy’s...

Literary Pilgrimages of The South

Book lovers are maniacs. We don’t just devour pages, we look up places mentioned in novels we love, and as soon as we’re set free, we go try to find them. We make pilgrimages to touch the desks of our favorite writers, lay flowers at their graves, or simply walk the...
Eat Without Fear

Eat Without Fear

It’s easy to scare people about what’s in their food, but the danger is almost never real. And the fear itself kills. Take the panic over genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Ninety percent of all corn grown in America is genetically modified now. That...