Brian Williams Must Step Down
Brian Williams has ruled the roost at “NBC Nightly News” for more than 10 years. Right before he took over, he saw Dan Rather’s career go up in flames at CBS over phony National Guard documents marshaled against President Bush. The anchorman’s...Study: Southerners Pro-Energy
ANN ARBOR—Southerners are less likely than Americans in other parts of the country to believe that energy affects the environment by at least a fair amount, according to the latest findings of the University of Michigan Energy Survey. A joint effort of the U-M Energy...Civil War Sub Finally Revealing Secrets
A century and a half after it sank and a decade and a half after it was raised, scientists are finally getting a look at the hull of the Confederate submarine HL Hunley, the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship. What they find may solve the mystery of why the...
Parasites
Politicians and lawyers pretend that they are important people doing important work. But often they’re important because they are parasites. They feed off others, while creating no wealth of their own. We all complain about businesses we don’t like, but...News From Around the South 1/26 – 2/2
SOUTH CAROLINA: Legislature to Decide if War Monuments Can Be Desegregated While practical segregation ended decades ago, there are still vestiges of symbolic segregation dotting the landscape of the South. A pair of such symbols could soon be changed in one small...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