News From Around the South 7/6 to 7/13
TENNESSEE: Confederate Memorial Day Latest Casualty of Symbol Backlash As traditions and symbols of the Old South continue to fall,Confederate Memorial Day has emerged as the latest target in one North Mississippi county. Supervisors in Leflore County voted last week...
South Carolina Lowers Confederate Flag After 54 Years
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Closing a chapter on a symbol of the Deep South and its history of resistance and racial animus, South Carolina on Friday lowered the Confederate battle flag from outside its State House, where it had flown for more than 50 years. The flag came down...
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...Obiter Dicta
Thomas Cromwell was the Lord Chancellor of England for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. He engineered the Read More
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