Who Owns the Gadsden Flag?

Who Owns the Gadsden Flag?

The year was 2017, the month was August. America was 241 years old, and totems of its racist past were crumbling. One of the Northwest’s largest tributes to Confederate soldiers — an 8-foot-high marble fountain erected in Helena, Montana, in 1916 — was about to come...
Ain’t We Deplorables Deplorable?

Ain’t We Deplorables Deplorable?

So. A Texas day care center can open now. I said “right now.” Come Friday, May 22, Texas bars and bowling alleys, by gubernatorial writ, are allowed to pry their doors partly — and, yes, cautiously — open. On the same day, and under the same dispensation,...
News From Around the South 5/11 to 5/18

News From Around the South 5/11 to 5/18

NORTH CAROLINA: Civil Rights Group Claims Victory in Silent Sam Case CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law declared victory in a Silent Sam case today after an Orange County Superior Court dismissed the controversial lawsuit...
Let’s Not Waste a Crisis

Let’s Not Waste a Crisis

Former Barack Obama adviser Rahm Emanuel, during a recent interview, reminded us of his 2008 financial crisis quotation, “Never allow a crisis to go to waste.” The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a wonderful opportunity for those of us who want greater...