Minimum Wage Folly
California now leads the nation in imposing dumb wage laws. The state just raised the hourly minimum wage for fast food workers to $20. Gov. Gavin Newsom said, “We saw the inequities. … we had a responsibility to do more.” Unions pushed for the...
News From Around the South 5/27 to 6/3
SOUTH CAROLINA: City Attempts to Locate 7 Lost Black Cemeteries CAYCE — A city initiative has uncovered at least seven Black cemeteries with historical significance after year-long search that represented the lead phase of the project. Now, the city in northeastern...
A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces After Nearly 170 Years
One day in 1855, a man walked into a newspaper office in Sydney, Australia, with an odd request. The man, later described as a “man of color” with “bright, intelligent eyes” and an American accent, was looking for a copy of the United States Constitution. The text was...
American Caesar and Constitutional Indifference
A recent column in The Economist magazine asking if America is dictator-proof got me to thinking if our constitutional guarantees are secure. Stated differently: Can the custodians of our constitutional norms be trusted to restrain a deliberate attempt to ignore,...
Biden Can’t Blow the Debates
Until he challenged Donald Trump to debate, President Joe Biden seemed in denial about the state of the race. He’d been saying for some time that the polls were wrong. This was disturbing for a couple of reasons, the first being that, if anything, the polls have...Obiter Dicta
Last week, the President of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously. He ordered the murders of 11 Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Experts work to ID remains of Revolutionary War soldiers found in woods: “This is the ultimate cold case” The Battle of Camden is mentioned in history books and Read More