News From Around the South 1/21 to 1/28
SOUTH CAROLINA: Leader Says S.C. Secessionist Party Disbanding ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — The chairman of the South Carolina Secessionist Party says the group is dissolving. The Anderson Independent Mail reported Friday that chairman James Bessenger says “the organization...
Anti-Social Media
This past weekend, Twitter was on fire about an event near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. After a short video clip went viral showing an indigenous drummer and white teenagers wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, (anti-)social media ran with the...
‘Sweet Home Alabama’ & History
The year is 1973, and in Studio One, Dooraville, in Atlanta, Georgia, Ronnie Van Zant, the lead singer and guiding light of Lynyrd Skynyrd mutters ‘Turn it up’ into a microphone. An electric moment in a song that will become legendary, and which will propel the...
The Media’s BuzzFeed and Covington Disasters
The last few days have been absolutely terrible for the reputation of the badly named “mainstream media.” The myth that they tried to build for themselves after the 2016 election — that the American people were too prone to misinformation from malignant...Obiter Dicta
The question recently asked by a federal judge in Miami — can the president sue an entity in the executive Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: University of Georgia provost named Clemson’s new president Selection came after the first choice opted to remain at Michigan State University CLEMSON — Clemson University’s governing board on Read More