Opioid Epidemic Started in Civil War
We have grown numb hearing the dry statistics of opioid-induced fatal drug overdoses. Sadly, we’ve now reached a point where media outlets reporting on the epidemic compare the number of annual deaths to vehicle accidents and gun violence to provide context. It’s been...
Bush Funeral Raises Question: Who Will Speak for Trump?
WASHINGTON — Who will speak for President Donald Trump at his state funeral, far in the future though it should be? That must be what the 45th president was thinking as he sat in the front pew at the funeral for former President George H.W. Bush. Bush was eulogized by...
News From Around the South 12/3 to 12/10
NORTH CAROLINA: Group Flies Confederate Flag to Honor Civil War Dead BURKE COUNTY, N.C. – The Sons of Confederate Veterans have placed a 20-by-30-foot Confederate flag along Interstate 40 in eastern Burke County. The group is flying the flag because it believes...
From Civil War Spy to Legendary Lawman
Pop culture always tells the stories of the outlaws of the Wild West. Lying, cheating, drinking, robbing banks, holding up train cars, getting into shootouts at high noon — these are all objectively cool things that make for great tales, but they’re often overplayed...
Miseducated or Stupid?
A recent Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation survey found that 51 percent of American millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than in a capitalist country. Only 42 percent prefer the latter (http://tinyurl.com/ybsejy3f). Twenty-five...Obiter Dicta
The little girl had to go to the bathroom. They went into the cafe, one of a small chain, and 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