Black Recruiting Site A National Monument
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — When Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves during the Civil War, it did not apply to Kentucky, one of the few slave states that did not join the Confederacy. But Elijah P. Marrs did not want to wait. He escaped...
Let the Democrats Keep Showing Their Hand
The Democratic Party’s emerging radical bloc is alarming, but the leftist group’s youthful intemperance could backfire and re-energize Republicans’ 2020 electoral prospects. Even before all the hanging chads and miraculously divined ballots have been...
Republican Opportunity With Young Blacks
Buried in the mounds of data fleshing out what happened in the midterm elections is an interesting take on blacks. Nationwide data on black voting in this election cycle do not point to much change. Various polls over recent months seemed to indicate that blacks were...
News From Around the South 11/5 to 11/12
GEORGIA: Fort Pulaski Honors Civil War Veterans SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Fort Pulaski National Monument honored our nation’s veterans this weekend. Re-enactors and historians recreated what life was like on the post in the Civil War. Visitors watched on as...
The Election’s Over…Now What?
It was almost unsettling to wake up the morning after the election and realize it turned out pretty much as we expected. There were, of course, some individual surprises, but nothing on the seismic shock scale of 2016. For months, it had been expected that Democrats...Obiter Dicta
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