News from Around the South 7/8 – 7/15
Kentucky: Letter from Pastor’s Wife Sparks Furor LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A newspaper column lampooning Southern Baptists, calling the group “the crazy old paranoid uncle of evangelical Christians,” is causing quite a stir in a Kentucky city and put a pastor’s job in...Memorials Planned for Civil War Britons
Two war memorials – one in Liverpool and the other in the US state of Virginia, where much of the fighting took place – are being proposed by a British group of historians. Although Britain was officially neutral in the conflict, thousands of men born in...South Most Optimistic
The South just might rise again. Southerners are the most likely to say the city where they live is getting better, according to the latest release from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. In fact, across the country, Americans are becoming more and more...
The Price of Meddling Overseas
You pay taxes? You contributed to the $2 billion your government gave Egypt this year. And last year. And every year — for 30 years. Most of it went to Egypt’s military. How’s that worked out? Now our government will “cautiously” support...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