News From Around the South, 5/19 to 5/26
VIRGINIA: 250 years after the start of the Revolutionary War, a divided America battles over its legacy LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the American...
Government Attacks on Private Property
A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the liability of the FBI for invading and terrorizing the wrong home has brought to mind the dark and dangerous history of law enforcement. The practice of British agents rummaging through the private possessions on the...
How Disobeyed Orders Led to the Largest Confederate Surrender of the Civil War
When Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, he surrendered an estimated 28,000 Confederate troops. Many remember this moment as the end of the American Civil War, but it wasn’t the last...
Stop the Scam
Eager to accept a luxury airliner from the government of Qatar, President Donald Trump is testing the limits of Republicans on Capitol Hill. Usually eager to behave like the servile puppies that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) once described with scorn (before becoming one...
News From Around the South, 5/12 to 5/19
WEST VIRGINIA: On This Day, The American Middle Class Was Born In A Gunfight A dozen armed men wearing dark suits stepped off the noon train in Matewan, West Virginia, on Wednesday, May 19, 1920. Residents knew this was trouble. Out-of-work coal miners, in town to...Obiter Dicta
The United States is engaged in summary executions on the high seas. That bald fact is being obscured by talk Read More
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Confederate statue restored as part of Trump’s efforts to reshape how history is told WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Read More