Our Free Speech Crisis
The First Amendment to our Constitution was proposed by the 1788 Virginia ratification convention during its narrow 89 to 79 vote to ratify the Constitution. Virginia’s resolution held that the free exercise of religion, right to assembly and free speech could...
News From Around the South 7/1 to 7/8
ILLINOIS: Band with ‘Confederate’ in Name Dumped From Festival; Protests Planned CARBONDALE, Ill. — Southern Illinois is at the center of a national conversation about the First Amendment after the country rock band Confederate Railroad was removed from...
The South’s Strangest Fourth of July
It began like many other Fourth of July celebrations Charleston held in the decades after the United States won its independence. At 3 a.m., the traditional sound of cannon fire erupted from Citadel Green (what today is Marion Square). Members of voluntary militias...
Is Putin Right? Has Liberalism Lost the World?
“The liberal idea has become obsolete. … (Liberals) cannot simply dictate anything to anyone as they have been attempting to do over the recent decades.” Such was the confident claim of Vladimir Putin to the Financial Times on the eve of a G-20...
News From Around the South 6/24 to 7/1
SOUTH CAROLINA: New Group to Fly Confederate Flag at State House Columbia, S.C. — An event to raise the Confederate flag on the grounds of the S.C. State House will go forward this month after all. The group Flags Across the South will raise the rebel banner...Obiter Dicta
Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: He died fighting for America’s independence at 14. He’s only just been identified Thirteen of America’s first ever veterans lie beneath a towering pine forest that was once Read More