News from Around the South 9/27-10/3
Arkansas: Court Upholds Medical Marijuana Proposal The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a proposed ballot measure that, if successful, would make the state the first in the South to legalize medical marijuana. The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The...
Book Review
The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln By Stephen L. Carter. Alfred A. Knopf, 516 pp., $26.95. There’s an increasingly popular sub-genre in fiction: historical what-ifs. What if the American Colonies stayed in the British empire? What if the United States stayed out of...
Ireland's Poor Civil War Memory
The Great Famine is an event seared into Irish national memory. Although the victims of the Great Hunger are rightfully remembered and commemorated, as is the physical fact that vast numbers of people were forced to leave, Ireland today largely leaves the memory of...
The Femininity Factor
Are Republican women politicians more “feminine” than Democratic women politicians? That’s the conclusion of a new study by UCLA researchers, who found that Republican women are so much more “feminine” that college students were able to...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