Trumo and the Department of Justice
Former President Donald Trump will soon be indicted by a federal grand jury. He is the victim of a federal government that knows no bounds and has assumed powers nowhere granted in the Constitution by the sheer force of its own will. It has created a security state,...
Could Vanished Scottish Colony Be Under Downtown Beaufort?
BEAUFORT — Archaeologist Chester DePratter looked beyond the edge of the city. From the park at the bottom of The Point, he could see 5 miles down the Beaufort River. “This is the highest point around,” DePratter, a research professor at the SC Institute of...
News From Around the South, 8/8 to 8/15
SOUTH CAROLINA: Army’s Largest Training Base Has More Confederate Names Than All But 3 Other Bases One in four roads on Fort Jackson could be renamed as part of a wide-ranging study that has already suggested new names for nine military bases with Confederate...
The Dwindling Difference Between Our Two Parties on Spending
For a few years, I have sounded the alarm that a growing wave of conservatives are working to make Republicans indistinguishable from Democrats on social spending. Some say that to win elections, Republicans need to pay more attention to families — by which they mean...
Voyaging the Mississippi: How Flatboats Shaped American History
In the early years of the 19th century, vast numbers of small wooden boats plied the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Carrying goods to market and settlers to the lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains, these vessels launched America’s western expansion. The boats were...Obiter Dicta
We just went through the longest government shutdown in history over contention regarding renewal of temporarily enacted government subsidies to Read More
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TENNESSEE: Battle of Franklin Trust to mark Civil War anniversaries Three Williamson County battlefields are set to mark the 161st anniversaries of two pivotal Civil War conflicts on Saturday and Read More