News From Around the South 9/28 to 10/5
TENNESSEE: Task Force Says Remove Confederate Flag From County Seal FRANKLIN, Tenn. — A task force designated to determine the livelihood of the Williamson County seal has reported to county commissioners that they should consider removing the Confederate flag from...
The World’s Brokest Billionaire
Seated at the breakfast table, scanning The New York Times story on Trump’s taxes, I said to my husband, “We have a greater net worth than Donald Trump.” He knitted his brow. I was thinking of a story that Ivanka Trump shared a while back: “I...
Some Golf Clubs Names Have Uneasy Confederate Ties
For years at Secession Golf Club in Beaufort, S.C., a private, links-style course surrounded by marsh brimming with nature, the club featured two sets of tees after Union generals (Grant and Sherman) and three after Confederate generals (Lee, Stuart, and Jackson).Or...
Supreme Court and Rules of the Game
The United States Constitution’s Article 2, Sec. 2, cl. 2, provides that the president of the United States “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the...
News From Around the South 9/21 to 9/28
VIRGINIA: Last Capital of Confederacy Struggles With Legacy DANVILLE, Va. — The United Daughters of the Confederacy still meet across the hall from the bedroom where Jefferson Davis spent the last nights of the Civil War. On a marble-topped table, Davis composed his...Obiter Dicta
On the eve of our nation’s 249th birthday, a Gallup poll finds that only 58% of Americans feel “extremely” or Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: SC Play Tells Story Of Gullah Geechee Experience During Revolutionary War When George Washington goes to heaven in the Gullah Traveling Theater’s telling of the American Revolution, Saint Read More