Moral Supremacy and Mr. Putin
Is Donald Trump to be allowed to craft a foreign policy based on the ideas on which he ran and won the presidency in 2016? Our foreign policy elite’s answer appears to be a thunderous no. Case in point: U.S. relations with Russia. During the campaign Trump was...
News From Around the South 1/31 to 2/6
FLORIDA: Battle of Townsend’s Plantation Returned to Renningers MOUNT DORA — Some people might not be surprised that black people served in the Civil War. They may have read about the war or have seen the movie, “Glory.” Or they may have heard the stories of...
Civil War Prayer Books Tell Powerful Stories
The little Episcopalian prayer book did not have the easiest journey to the Rev. Robert Alves’ private collection. “This one has actually been in the ocean,” says, Alves, holding up a leather-bound copy of the Confederate Book of Common Prayer. In...
Two Sides To Immigration Brouhaha
No one gets anywhere by trying to roll Donald Trump’s immigration order and its varied implications into a spitball for hurling hard and fast at the Other Side. That is not to split the difference, in namby-pamby fashion, between supporters of the present...News From Around the South 1/23 to 1/30
TEXAS: Texas Coast Site of First Ship to Ship Battle President Lincoln had sent Union vessels to block the ports of Galveston, Texas and Sabine Pass, Texas to stop the shipments of goods to Confederate forces in December 1863. On January 1, 1863, Confederate forces...Obiter Dicta
The United States invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro, the domestically recognized Venezuelan president, violated the U.S. Constitution Read More
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TEXAS: Restoring fading, damaged Texas historical markers becomes man’s mission What started as childhood resentment for his dad’s mandatory roadside history stops on family vacations has evolved into a full-blown Read More