News From Around the South 4/6 to 4/13
ALABAMA: Prehistoric Forest Found On Sea Floor Off Coast An ancient forest has been found “entombed” in the floor of the Gulf of Mexico off Alabama, prompting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to orchestrate a study of the haunting site. Among the...
Hope For the Dead at Easter
That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves. — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by governance from Britain, the word most frequently uttered...
How Vietnam Shaped the Right
We often misunderstand and underestimate the importance of foreign policy events for domestic politics. Americans tend to treat as a truism the idea that foreign policy makes little difference in elections, and that voters rarely pay attention to what happens outside...
Kissinger’s Call For A New World Order
Among the works that first brought Henry Kissinger to academic acclaim was “A World Restored,” his 1950s book about how the greatest diplomats of Europe met at the Congress of Vienna to restore order to a continent shattered by the Napoleonic Wars. The...
News From Around the South 3/30 to 4/6
SOUTH CAROLINA: Locked-down Carnival Cruise Has Critics Fuming CHARLESTON, S.C. — With its bright red-and-blue smoke stack shaped like a whale tail, the Carnival Sunshine was moored behind three car ships Friday afternoon in downtown Charleston — a vivid...Obiter Dicta
Just four days before she died, Dolly Parton said she was being treated for health problems that she “didn’t pay Read More
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KENTUCKY: Kentucky agriculture has moved beyond tobacco. Some wonder what’s been lost. CLARK COUNTY, Ky. – Kenneth Anderson’s father taught him what to look for in high-quality tobacco, cured for Read More