Rescuing the Post Office
Red ink has seized the U.S. Postal Service corpus like a cancer. The post office’s life-saving prescription is to amputate a limb — the organization this week announced that starting in August it intends to discontinue Saturday delivery of the mail. That may...
Southern BBQ
A chilly day and I am thinking of starting the hickory fire and putting some pork on the smoker. BBQ – perhaps the most discussed, fought over, and eaten jewel in all of Southern cooking. As a chef of l’étoile in Charlottesville, I may know a thing or two about it....
Developers Eye Civil War Battlefields
In Atlanta, just minutes away from city offices and downtown attractions, 14 acres of brush and woods have caught the eye of apartment housing developers. That in itself is nothing new. But what makes those 14 acres special is this: The prime piece of in-town real...
What New Role for the South in Politics?
The New Year’s Day vote in Congress that brought a temporary truce to the fiscal wars showed the Republicans to be far more divided than the Democrats, and the division broke along regional lines. House Republicans from the Far West and from the Northeast favored the...Obiter Dicta
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is not qualified to be the attorney general of the United States because he has Read More
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