Obama's War on Transparency
On Inauguration Day 2009, the White House website declared President Obama’s administration would become “the most open and transparent in history.” By the end of the next day, Obama had issued high-profile orders pledging “a new era” and...News From Around the South 2/23 to 3/2
SOUTH CAROLINA: Earthen Confederate Fortifications Visible in Charleston CHARLESTON – The earth mounds can turn up anywhere in the Lowcountry, it seems – odd-shaped crowns or crooked rows, a little too large and too strange to be natural. They are haunts...Intelligence-Gathering in the Civil War Era
By the early to mid-1800s, the world was coming into its own, with many nations having shaken off (or were in the process of shaking off) tyrants and monarchies. Governments and militaries were re-shaped and reformed, but the age-old art of intelligence...
Hollywood Hypocrites Demand Wage Equality
When actress Patricia Arquette won an Oscar, she pled for “wage equality” for women: “To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen in this nation: We have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It’s our time to have wage...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