How Civil War Laws Helped Trump

How Civil War Laws Helped Trump

Donald Trump won the presidential election as millions of people were prevented from voting this year by rules that root back to the Civil War and were made to maintain white male political dominance. About 6.1 million people who were convicted of breaking laws could...
Barack Backhands Bibi

Barack Backhands Bibi

Did the community organizer from Harvard Law just deliver some personal payback to the IDF commando? So it would seem. By abstaining on that Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem illegal and invalid, raged Bibi...
News From Around the South 12/19 to 12/26

News From Around the South 12/19 to 12/26

GEORGIA: KKK Lawyer Representing Georgia Officer Fired For Flying Confederate Flag Roswell, Ga. — A law firm co-founded by a man with a lengthy history of representing groups like the Ku Klux Klan and other white nationalist and net-confederate organizations has...
Some Christmas time Advice For Pundits

Some Christmas time Advice For Pundits

Now that the 538 electors have voted — and, with only the most minor of exceptions, for the expected candidates — we can marvel at how such a huge difference in public policies can be made by just a few votes, the 77,744 votes by which Donald Trump beat Hillary...
News From Around the South 12/12 to 12/19

News From Around the South 12/12 to 12/19

GEORGIA: Officer Fired For Flying Confederate Flag Sues Department The Georgia police officer who was terminated earlier this year for flying a Confederate flag at her Georgia home is suing her former place of employment. AllOnGeorgia reported on the story 20-year...
The 1540 Battle that Changed the South

The 1540 Battle that Changed the South

In September 1540, Hernando de Soto and his entourage marched into Talisi — which these days is known as Tallassee and is about 30 miles northeast of Montgomery in central Alabama. It must have been quite the impressive sight: 600 Spanish soldiers, many on...