News From Around the South 10/30 to 11/6
GEORGIA: Sons of Confederate Veterans Hire Lobbying Firm DECATUR, Ga. — The Georgia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has signaled it intends to fight efforts to remove Confederate monuments in local communities during the 2018 session. The group...
How Media Toasts Hurt GOP Establishment
A Morning Consult poll released on Halloween offers a scary result for establishment Republicans. They tested the approval and disapproval ratings of current members of the U.S. Senate. Guess who was in the cellar. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ranked dead...
Battle Lines Drawn Over Marker
AUSTIN — Outside Rep. Eric Johnson’s office in the state Capitol is a plaque that claims secession was not an act of rebellion and the Civil War was not fought to sustain slavery. It was installed in 1959, when his parents were growing up in the West Dallas housing...
That Other Plot — To Bring Down Trump
Well over a year after the FBI began investigating “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has brought in his first major indictment. Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has been charged with a series of...
News From Around the South 10/23 to 10/30
KENTUCKY — Plaque Honoring Jefferson Davis To Be Removed FRANKFORT, Ky. — A plaque proclaiming Jefferson Davis as a hero and a patriot will be removed from Kentucky’s Capitol, the latest effort to alter Confederate monuments across the country following...Obiter Dicta
“Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away?” 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