As the Filibuster Goes, So Goes the GOP
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” This was the nightmare of Ben Franklin. Yet, with passage this spring of a $4 trillion bailout of an economy facing historic losses because of the...
News From Around the South 7/27 to 8/3
TEXAS: Confederate Statue Will Stay Put WEATHERFORD, Texas — On Thursday afternoon, all members of the Parker County Commissioners Court voted to keep a confederate statue on courthouse property after there had been passionate and at times violent...
Freedom and Political Dissent
Two weeks ago, this column offered a brief history of the freedom of speech in America. The essence of the column was that all public speech is lawful when there is time for more speech to challenge it and that the remedy for hate speech is not censorship, but more...
West Point’s Confederate Problem
For half a century, a U.S. Military Academy dormitory has borne the name of Robert E. Lee, the West Point graduate who led the academy as superintendent for three years and later waged war against former comrades as a Confederate commander during the Civil War. That...
Is Racism Responsible for Today’s Black Problems?
I doubt whether any American would defend the police treatment of George Floyd that led to his death. But many Americans are supporting some of the responses to Floyd’s death — rioting, looting, wanton property destruction, assaults on police and other kinds of...Obiter Dicta
The rush to exonerate Trump from the implications of the Epstein birthday book message reveals a contradiction at the heart Read More
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GEORGIA — National civil rights museum expanding. Unlike Smithsonian, Trump has no immediate sway over its content A popular museum in Atlanta is expanding at a critical moment in the Read More