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...A World War on American Soil
“So it seems your Republic is going to pieces?” an unnamed high officer of the French imperial government snidely remarked to the American guest attending a concert at Emperor Napoleon III’s residence in the Tuileries Palace. It was early March 1861, and the news...Obiter Dicta
“Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away?” Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: SC militias fought for America’s freedom – who fights for their battlegrounds? As a boy, Rick Wise was hooked on military history from the beginning. But he was Read More