Crowded GOP Field Will Thin Itself by 2016
These are nervous times for Republicans. After losing an election that should have been a cakewalk, Mitt Romney is back for more. After years of middling performance and sagging approval, Barack Obama’s ratings have risen to roughly where Ronald Reagan’s...News From Around the South 1/21 to 1/26
VIRGINIA: More Civil War-Era Graffiti Found CULPEPER, Va. — More Civil War-era writing has been found in the historic Graffiti House in Brandy Station. Brandy Station Foundation president Jim McKinney tells the Culpeper Star-Exponent it’s the first time...The South's 'Pullitzer headlock'
It’s often claimed all American culture stems from Southern culture, with its wide-spreading, moss-dripping branches. Music thought of as American — jazz, blues, country, bluegrass, rock, R&B, soul, funk, gospel, zydeco and Appalachian folk — either arose...
Restate of the Union
President Obama sure is consistent. His State of the Union address sounded like his other speeches: What I’ve done is great! America is in a much better position. We’ve created a manufacturing sector that’s adding jobs. More oil is produced at home....
To Die for Charlie Hebdo?
“I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.” That maxim of Voltaire was among those most invoked by the marching millions in Sunday’s mammoth “Je Suis Charlie” rally in Paris. This...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