South Carolina Lowers Confederate Flag After 54 Years
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Closing a chapter on a symbol of the Deep South and its history of resistance and racial animus, South Carolina on Friday lowered the Confederate battle flag from outside its State House, where it had flown for more than 50 years. The flag came down...
Can Southern Baptists Get Groove Back?
As Southern Baptists gathered for their annual summer meeting, gloom hung over the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Perhaps it is not the utter despair wracking the “mainline” denominations — Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal and others — who are in...
Hillary and Her Roped Media Herd
Hillary Clinton’s campaign again signaled its contempt for the press during a July 4 parade in New Hampshire. Aides brought out ropes to cordon off the media. It was the perfect metaphor for a “news” media so cowered by their candidate that they...
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NORTH CAROLINA: City Pulls Down Signs With Confederate Battle Flag HIGH POINT, N.C. — The City of High Point has taken down signs bearing the Confederate battle flag along High Point roads in the wake of the killing of nine people in the Emanuel African Methodist...Obiter Dicta
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