Cuts Too Close to Home
Let me count the ways. Donald Trump excels at broadsides against bright places and people that burnish our world. But now, it’s getting personal. Trump is stealing what I hold dear. I’m not even speaking of press freedom or his suing CBS News, where I...
News From Around the South, 5/19 to 5/26
VIRGINIA: 250 years after the start of the Revolutionary War, a divided America battles over its legacy LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the American...
Government Attacks on Private Property
A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the liability of the FBI for invading and terrorizing the wrong home has brought to mind the dark and dangerous history of law enforcement. The practice of British agents rummaging through the private possessions on the...
How Disobeyed Orders Led to the Largest Confederate Surrender of the Civil War
When Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, he surrendered an estimated 28,000 Confederate troops. Many remember this moment as the end of the American Civil War, but it wasn’t the last...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘Just wonderful’: USC musicians perform at Congaree National Park for country’s 250th birthday In a celebration of American music, the student performers also hoped to introduce more people Read More