News From Around the South 8/9 to 8/15
TEXAS: Houston School Board Approves Renaming of Schools, Slammed on Cost HOUSTON — The Houston school board has approved a $1.2 million budget for the renaming of eight schools named after Confederate loyalists. The move has gained backlash from taxpayers in...
Georgia Hate Groups Spike
In a recent fund-raising appeal, the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center said the organization is tracking an increasing number of hate groups around the nation, including a 40 percent spike in Georgia alone. According to the center, hate groups increased from...
North Carolina’s Secret Civil War
More than 150 years ago, men fought and died in mostly small but still savage Civil War battles in North Carolina that ranged from the western mountains to the Outer Banks. Tourists have been more likely to visit Fort Fisher, the important coastal fort on Kure...
Lies Politicians Tell
I don’t want Hillary Clinton to be president. She’s a liar. But I can’t vote for Donald Trump. He lies almost as often. Trump denies he ever said things, claiming he never used terms like “fat pig” to describe women, that he never was...Obiter Dicta
One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress’s constitutional authority over war. Read More
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