News From Around the South 11/5 to 11/12
GEORGIA: Fort Pulaski Honors Civil War Veterans SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Fort Pulaski National Monument honored our nation’s veterans this weekend. Re-enactors and historians recreated what life was like on the post in the Civil War. Visitors watched on as...
The Election’s Over…Now What?
It was almost unsettling to wake up the morning after the election and realize it turned out pretty much as we expected. There were, of course, some individual surprises, but nothing on the seismic shock scale of 2016. For months, it had been expected that Democrats...
Massacre at Fort Pillow
Department of Veterans Affairs staff members demanded last week that a high-ranking official remove from his office a painting titled “No Surrender,” which depicted a Confederate general atop a horse, riding across a snowy battlefield. In a petition, workers explained...
Skin In The Game
In describing the GOP tax cuts, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that they and bonuses American workers were getting were “crumbs.” They were “tax cuts for the rich.” Some argued that the tax cuts would reduce revenues. Pelosi predicted,...Obiter Dicta
I’ve always been both a small-r republican and an Anglophile, so I looked upon the British monarchy with at least Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: With location and design selected, SC’s Robert Smalls monument needs funding The monument is expected to cost between $1 million and $2 million for the cost of the Read More