News From Around the South 11/13 to 11/20

News From Around the South 11/13 to 11/20

VIRGINIA: Robert E. Lee Decamps City Hall for Museum ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The city of Alexandria has quietly removed a portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that hung on the wall of the City Council chambers for 54 years, relocating it to the Lyceum, a local...
Baptists Defend Confederate Flag

Baptists Defend Confederate Flag

The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina echoed the Southern Baptist Convention in denouncing racism in a resolution adopted at the state convention’s 2017 annual meeting Nov. 6-7 in Greensboro, N.C. North Carolina Baptists stopped short, however, of endorsing...
Who’ll Be Crying In Their Beer?

Who’ll Be Crying In Their Beer?

WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders found a clever way to combine two passions — tweaking reporters and supporting big tax cuts — during a recent press briefing. She laid out a scenario in which 10 reporters had a beer together every day...
Cutting Taxes and Building Bridges

Cutting Taxes and Building Bridges

While Democrats across the nation are declaring both victory and a potential turning tide after this week’s off-year election, Republicans might want to turn to their old playbook to prove the Democrats wrong. But it won’t be easy. For Democrats, still...
Fight Continued in Textbooks

Fight Continued in Textbooks

Recent controversial comments on the Civil War from White House Chief of Staff John Kelly reignited the debate over the proper interpretation of this historic event. As many have observed, Kelly’s statement to news commentator Laura Ingraham that “the lack of an...