Review: A Defense of Dixie
Editor’s note: Following is an excellent review from the Wall Street Journal of the South-bashing book “Better Off Without ‘Em, a Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession” by Chuck Thompson, Simon and Schuster, 312 pages, $25. By Barton...
Weekly News from Around the South 8-15-12
North Carolina: Confederate Flag Supporters Protest Removal of Flag from Courthouse By Becky Johnson, smokymountainnews.com A protest was held this week in front of the Haywood County historic courthouse by Confederate supporters who say their flag is being...
The GOP's Hunger Games
Mitt Romney is a bit of a sci-fi buff. He not only took his grandkids to see “The Hunger Games” when the movie came out but also read the Suzanne Collins trilogy. I wonder whether he was thinking about the books when he picked Paul Ryan to be his running...Boys in the Hood
The presidential campaign made a stop this week in Sherwood Forest, as President Obama has declared his opponent, Mitt Romney, “Romney Hood,” a play on the Robin Hood legend. The president is contending that Romney wants to take money from working...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