News From Around the South, 4/6 to 4/13
Louisiana: Legislators could use their campaign cash for clothing if bill passes Louisiana lawmakers might lift a prohibition on using their campaign and political action committee funding to purchase clothing for themselves. State Rep. Jason DeWitt, R-Tioga, has...
Killing and Indifference
Is personal freedom a reality or a myth? Does the government execute the will of the governed or the will of those who finance its officials? Does the Bill of Rights restrain the government? Are the levers of government power pulled by those the governed have elected...
Echoes of Shiloh: Myth, Media, and the Civil War Landscape
by M. A. Kleen “There were men from every nation laid on those bloody plains, Fathers, sons, and brothers were numbered with the slain” – “Shiloh’s Hill,” M.G. Smith, Company C, 2nd Texas Infantry The acting left something to be desired, and the animated maps were...
Did You Really Think Trump Would Lower Prices?
Donald Trump’s assault on our democratic institutions did not stop voters from giving him a second term. The top reason they cited for reelecting him was the economy, notably their unhappiness over high prices. During the campaign, Trump promised to “bring...
News From Around the South, 3/30 to 4/6
GEORGIA: Bill backed by Confederate monument defenders knocked down in the Georgia House Sponsor argued his bill would protect all monuments, not just Confederate monuments A bill backed by neo-Confederates that aimed to protect historic monuments from removal was...Obiter Dicta
There is lore about the 1862 meeting between Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” — the influential novel Read More
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