Time For Trump to Cut the Prince Loose?
Was the assassination of JFK by Lee Harvey Oswald still getting as much media coverage three weeks after his death as it did that first week after Nov. 22, 1963? Not as I recall. Yet, three weeks after his murder, Jamal Khashoggi, who was not a U.S. citizen, was not...
News From Around the South 10/15 to 10/22
SOUTH CAROLINA: Conde Nast Names Charleston Top U.S. City for 8th Consecutive Year Eight years and counting, Charleston is Condé Nast Traveler’s top U.S. tourist destination. The magazine announced the winners of its 31st annual Readers’ Choice Awards Tuesday morning...
America v. the World is a Losing Game
The Trump administration is full of people who think that if you’re making the rest of the world mad, you’re doing something right. “It was a blessing to go into the U.N. with body armor every day,” said Nikki Haley after announcing she will...
Female Soldiers in the Civil War
The outbreak of the Civil War challenged traditional American notions of feminine submissiveness and domesticity with hundreds of examples of courage, diligence, and self-sacrifice in battle. The war was a formative moment in the early feminist movement. In July of...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