John McCain and Me
About four years ago, I was browsing through one of Manhattan’s last remaining independent bookstores, when my cellphone rang. I didn’t recognize the incoming telephone number, with its 202 area code, but I assumed it was a Fox News colleague from our...
Civil War Tattoos Hedge Against Death
In 1876, on Oak Street between Oliver and James, a long-lost block of lower Manhattan that now lies underneath a housing project built in the 1950s, a New York Times reporter found the sign he had been looking for—“Tattooing Done Here.” Inside the shop, which he...
News From Around the South 8/20 to 8/27
TENNESSEE: Black Pastors, Confederate Descendants Share Civil War History in Tennessee Town FRANKLIN, Tenn. — African-American pastors recently touring a restored Confederate plantation here stopped to look at the rocks in the grass near a path between the ivory...
The Death of a Hero
The president’s former campaign chairman stands convicted of eight felony counts. The president’s formal personal lawyer is pleading guilty and cooperating. No one is above the law but the president. And with his help, all his friends are, too. What does...
Last Flag Flown Ready for Display
COLUMBIA — The last Confederate flag flown on Statehouse grounds will be on display at South Carolina’s military history museum within the next few months, though exactly where remains uncertain. After three years of wrangling over exhibit costs and space, Confederate...Obiter Dicta
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