Confederates in the Basement
I hid Robert E. Lee in a basement utility closet. Along with a matching framed print of Stonewall Jackson and a large photo of the Confederate flag. My writers’ group was on the way over for our monthly meeting, which I’d offered to host last month at my parents’...
Day of the Hawk
The bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie was premeditated mass murder. Gadhafi was taking revenge for Reagan’s raid on Tripoli in 1986. The downing of KAL 007, flying from Anchorage to Seoul, was mass murder in the second degree. Seeing an aircraft intrude into...Hiking the Civil War's Battlefields
FREDERICK, Md. — About 150 years after the “Battle That Saved Washington,” journalist and Civil War buff Keith White leads a dozen friends on a tour of the farmland south of here where Union forces led by Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace were credited with delaying the...News From Around the South 7/14 – 7/21
TENNESSEE: “Bubba” Goes Out with a Bang MT. JULIET, Tenn. – To say Harold Dee ‘Bubba’ Jones went out with a bang is a bit of an understatement. Jones, of Lebanon, operated construction machinery and drove large trucks. He was killed in an accident June 23....Film Critics Hate America
Dinesh D’Souza shocked the movie world in 2012 with his anti-President Barack Obama documentary “2016,” which became the second highest-grossing documentary in U.S. movie history. On July 2, he unveiled his new documentary called “America:...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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