America Divided Against Itself, Again
On May 22, 1856, Representative Preston Brooks entered the floor of the United States Senate, approached abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner, and beat the senator with a cane, almost taking his life. Brooks was provoked by a passionate anti-slavery speech that Sumner...
News From Around the South 6/18 to 6/25
SOUTH CAROLINA: Southern Civil War Journal Ends Up in York County No one in the South knew where the Civil War would go next. Ella Bassett Washington (1834-1898), mistress of Beall Air plantation in Jefferson County, West Virginia, thought she and her children might...
Democrats Have Zero Tolerance for Immigration Solutions
As soon as the Trump administration adopted a “zero-tolerance” policy requiring law enforcement to prosecute all immigrants who crossed the border illegally, it became clear that officials weren’t prepared to deal with the crush of kids who would...
Civil War Bones Tell Horror Story
The bullet probably hit the Union soldier as he was fleeing. It may have struck his cartridge box first, which sent it tumbling through the muscle of his right buttock, broke his right leg and buried itself sideways in his thigh bone just below the hip. His buddies...
How Republicans Went Soft on Communism
If you had told Ronald Reagan in 1988 that in 30 years, the president of the United States would be chummy with communist dictators in China and North Korea, eager to please a brutal Kremlin autocrat, and indifferent to the needs of our military allies, he might have...Obiter Dicta
1. On Jan. 1, 2027, Joe Biden will be a. A criminal defendant in a case brought by the Trump Read More
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