News From Around the South 5/24 to 5/31
Memorial Day occupies a traditional place in American history. Anyone who grew up in this country understands it to be a celebration of wartime sacrifice and patriotic valor. It’s a holiday with its origins in the Civil War, a time of untold...
The Government’s Community Caretaking Ruse
Edward and Kim Caniglia had an argument in their Cranston, Rhode Island, home, during which Edward retrieved a lawfully owned unloaded handgun and placed it on their dining room table in front of Kim and said to his wife, “Shoot me now, and get it over...
Robert E. Lee ‘Descendant’ Who Called For Confederate Statues Removal Isn’t Related To General
The campaigner against Confederate monuments who claimed to be descended from Robert E. Lee’s brother actually has no family ties to the Confederate general, according to a new investigation. Rev. Robert W. Lee IV is actually descended from a family of Lees...
What If Roe Is Overturned?
As soon as the Supreme Court granted cert in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, I rushed online to see the anticipated outcry. More on that in a moment. The case challenges the constitutionality of Mississippi’s gestational age law...
News From Around the South 5/17 to 5/24
SOUTH CAROLINA — Heritage Act Protecting Confederate Monuments Faces State Supreme Court Test COLUMBIA — The long-debated question over the constitutionality of a controversial state law that blocks South Carolina cities from taking down Confederate monuments...Obiter Dicta
When James Madison was a member of Congress in 1791 and charged with drafting the Bill of Rights, he made Read More
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Archaeologists working on a project to rehabilitate the foundation of George Washington’s Mount Vernon, VA home made a stunning discovery when they unearthed two intact bottles of cherries from the hardened dirt Read More