Media Ignores Gay Domestic Abuse
Brittney Griner was a huge college star in women’s basketball two years ago. Her dominance of the sport at 6-foot-8 was unquestioned — she could dunk with ease, and she blocked more shots than anyone else in college basketball history, men or women. Her Baylor...
Atlanta: Gateway to Energy Efficiency
Did you know that buildings—including many of the very structures that make the nation’s cityscapes distinctive and recognizable—are the single largest user of energy in the United States? Each year, our cities spend $450 billion on energy for our buildings, with a...
Imperial Overreach
Toward the end of the presidency of George H.W. Bush, America stood alone at the top of the world — the sole superpower. After five weeks of “shock and awe” and 100 hours of combat, Saddam’s army had fled Kuwait back up the road to Basra and Bagdad....
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VIRGINIA: Pulaski Sesquicentennial Committee Honored As the months are counting down to the halfway point for 2015, the five-year commemoration for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War is also coming to a close. It’s been going on statewide, involving many different...
Carolina BBQ Tops Magazine List
Allen & Son Barbeque of Chapel Hill is among Southern Living magazine’s top picks on its annual list of “The South’s Top 50 Barbecue Joints.” The restaurant “bridges the contentious divided between the Eastern and Piedmont styles of North Carolina barbecue,” the...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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LOUISIANA: LSU struggles with multimillion-dollar athletics deficit: ‘We’ve got to stop that bleeding After years of minimal profits, LSU athletics is now tens of millions of dollars in the red. Read More