News From Around the South 7/31 to 8/7
VIRGINIA: Battlefield Offers Civil War Experience PETERSBURG, Va. — The 1st South Carolina Infantry and the 3rd U.S. Infantry will be drilling, presenting firing demonstrations, and presenting programs on Civil War soldier life in battle and beyond on Saturday,...
Ignoring Lessons of Effective Presidents
Who have been the most successful presidents in the past 80 years? Most successful, that is, in framing issues and advancing their policies, achieving foreign policy success, winning re-election and maintaining high job approval. My nominees are Franklin Roosevelt,...
Myth of A Unified South
One-hundred and fifty years after the end of the Civil War, the thirst for an alternate version of Southern history in the US remains unquenchable. The Confederate flag endures as a symptom of the deeper cancer of racism, eating into the bone of the nation. And now a...
Instability is not Unpredictability
One of the great myths about President Trump is that America’s enemies would fear him because he is predictably unpredictable. Trump himself stated during the campaign that he didn’t want to spell out general military strategy because he didn’t want...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