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The jury is in, and from the glowering looks on all faces, the verdict appears unanimous: The president blew it. What did he mean, the infamy in Charlottesville, Virginia, could be ascribed to “many sides”? His accompanying condemnation of “hatred,...
News From Around the South 8/7 to 8/14
NORTH CAROLINA: School Dress Code Bans Confederate Flag, Swastika HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — Orange County Schools Monday night approved a revamped dress code that bans the Confederate flag after months of discussions. Just last month, a proposed policy prohibited students...
Regionalization of Democratic Party Benefits GOP in Midterms
The Democratic Party has, for the moment, become a regional party. Only 449 counties across the nation are reliably Democratic. Five times that many — 2,226 — are reliably Republican. The Democratic counties are generally found along the coasts and in large urban...
Confederate Statue Time Capsule Opened
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said he expected to find a “box full of dust” on Tuesday when city workers opened a rusty time capsule found inside a Confederate memorial statue that stood at Lake Eola Park for a century. Instead, city officials found a trove of relics,...Obiter Dicta
In 200-plus years of interpreting the free speech clause of the First Amendment, the courts have narrowed and expanded its 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