Dragging Death Murderer Executed
This week, 44-year-old John William King will be put to death in the Huntsville Unit in Texas for the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr. A white supremacist who was involved in the horrific 1998 murder of a black man where he and two others tied the victim to the back of...
Green Dreams
The Green New Deal’s goal is to move America to zero carbon emissions in 10 years. “That’s a goal you could only imagine possible if you have no idea how energy is produced,” James Meigs, former editor of Popular Mechanics magazine, says in my...
The Dueling Columns of Clay and Calhoun
As they were rivals in life, so, too, it seems, did senators Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun try to outrival each other in death—or at least their supporters did. In 2014, as part of a post I wrote about Calhoun-related sites in his home city of Charleston, South...
The Democrats Divide on Impeachment
The release of the Mueller report has left Democrats in a dilemma. For consider what Robert Mueller concluded after two years of investigation. Candidate Donald Trump did not conspire or collude with the Russians to hack the emails of the DNC or John Podesta. Trump...
News From Around the South 4/15 to 4/22
BEAUFORT — “What brings you to our little corner of history today?” A volunteer greets each guest with the question as they wander into the Old Beaufort Firehouse across from the Arsenal on Craven Street. It feels appropriate for the spot that sits off a small...Obiter Dicta
In the course of his losing race with the teleprompter during his Oval Office address on Dec. 17, President Donald Read More
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GEORGIA: Alicia Johnson sworn in as first Black woman elected to Georgia Public Service Commission Dr. Alicia Johnson was ceremonially sworn in this week as Georgia’s newest Public Service Commissioner, Read More