Is This How Europe Ends?
“Fortress Europe is an illusion.” So declares the Financial Times in the closing line of its Saturday editorial: “Europe Cannot Ignore Syrian Migrant Crisis.” The FT undertakes to instruct the Old Continent on what its duty is and what its...
News From Around the South 3/2 to 3/9
SOUTH CAROLINA: Civil War Artillery Shell Disrupts Traffic CHARLESTON, S.C. — Multiple roads were closed for hours in historic downtown Charleston on Wednesday, after an antique bomb turned up at a construction site near famed Rainbow Row, according to police....
Repeal the Patriot Act
I have been writing for years about the dangers to human freedom that come from government mass surveillance. The United States was born in a defiant reaction to government surveillance. In the decade preceding the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the...
Hot On the Trail of Tamales in the Mississippi Delta
GREENVILLE, Miss. — Along the mighty Mississippi lies a 200-mile diamond-shaped swath of fertile farmland and floodplain known as the Mississippi Delta. It’s a region rich with blues music, civil rights sites and agribusiness (especially cotton). It’s also the...
Establishment’s Ultimatum: Scuttle Bernie!
After Joe Biden’s blowout victory in South Carolina Saturday and the swift withdrawal of Tom Steyer, “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the decisive day of the race for the Democratic nomination, Super Tuesday, is at hand. Fourteen states...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