Can Southern Baptists Get Groove Back?
As Southern Baptists gathered for their annual summer meeting, gloom hung over the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Perhaps it is not the utter despair wracking the “mainline” denominations — Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal and others — who are in...
Hillary and Her Roped Media Herd
Hillary Clinton’s campaign again signaled its contempt for the press during a July 4 parade in New Hampshire. Aides brought out ropes to cordon off the media. It was the perfect metaphor for a “news” media so cowered by their candidate that they...
Love of Country
As a kid, the Fourth of July was always my favorite holiday: the bike parade with the crepe paper so carefully threaded through the spokes, the afternoon of running and jumping contests where everyone won something, and, of course, the highlight, getting the old ratty...
Study: Northerners Drink More than Southerners
A glass of wine with dinner. A beer while watching TV. For many people, drinking the occasional alcoholic beverage is simply a way to relax. But crossing the line into serious alcohol abuse can up the odds for negative results, including health issues, family...
Confederate Names on Schools Under Fire
After a racially motivated shooting in Charleston earlier this month left nine black people dead, a nationwide conversation about the Confederate flag began. Politicians jumped on the bandwagon, major corporations removed merchandise displaying the flag from their...Obiter Dicta
In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: New S.C. license plate honors Revolutionary War history COLUMBIA – Beginning Jan. 1, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles will issue a newly designed standard license plate that Read More