News from Around the South week of 2/10/13

Georgia: Confederate Flag-post by Demoted Officer Not Protected by First Amendment A deputy police chief demoted after posting on Facebook a Confederate flag image may not proceed with his First Amendment retaliation claims, a federal district court in Georgia ruled....
Stay Out of Other People's Wars

Stay Out of Other People's Wars

“If these negotiations [with Iran] fail, there are two grim alternatives,” said Sen. Richard Durbin, “a nuclear Iran, or war, or perhaps both.” Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham returned from the Munich security conference saying that even...
Hillary's Woody Allen problem

Hillary's Woody Allen problem

Dylan Farrow, now 28 years old, is the adopted daughter of Oscar-winning director Woody Allen. In “An Open Letter From Dylan Farrow,” published in The New York Times, Dylan accuses her father of inappropriately touching her “for as long as I could...

News from Around th South, 1/27 to 2/3

  Virginia: Fanmous Civil War House On Market FREDERICKSBURG, Va. —  A house with a historic résumé that includes a photograph taken of it by Mathew Brady after the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862 is easily a consensus choice for the annals of city lore....

Yasukuni & The South

On Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council held an open debate on the theme of “war, its lesson, and the search for a permanent peace.” Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, addressing the Security Council, laid out the core of the...
Re-State of the Union

Re-State of the Union

President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday wasn’t what I wanted to hear. This is what the president should have said: “I cannot imagine what I was thinking when I pushed Obamacare. I now see it is folly to entrust government, which...