News from Around the South 12/3-12/10
Georgia: Union General Gets Civil War Historical Marker The Civil War was more than just a battlefield conflict. It affected nearly every aspect of people’s lives, but 90 percent of Georgia’s 1,000 Civil War markers were about battles and Confederate military leaders....Redneck Airwaves
We have long heard that the South will rise again, but who thought that return would be led by a 7-year-old girl and a band of brothers with ZZ Top beards and a fondness for frog hunting? Yet here we are amid an explosion of reality shows about the South, more...
Entitlement Compromise?
One by one, congressional Republicans are revoking their no-tax-increase pledges, opening the door to a fiscal-cliff compromise. Sadly, Democrats are just as quickly closing the door by calling for tax increases now and entitlement cuts later, if at all. Democrats...
The Civil War at Sea
The names of the epic Civil War land battles—Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga—have a certain ring to them. Even the term “Sherman’s March to the Sea” is evocative. In contrast, there is little that reverberates in...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