Commission Calls For Stripping Lee Of All Honors At West Point
The congressional commission reviewing Pentagon property honoring the Confederacy is recommending renaming facilities and removing depictions dedicated to Robert E. Lee and other leaders at West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy. The Naming Commission, in its second...
Winners and Losers From the Ukraine War
“There never was a good war or a bad peace,” wrote Ben Franklin at the end of the American Revolution. But that depends on the war-makers and the causes for which they fight. Six months into the war in Ukraine, launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin...News From Around the South 8/22 to 8/29
TENNESSEE: State Judge Ignores Confederate Monuments Inside Their Own Courts The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals held last week that it isn’t prejudicial for jurors to decide the fates of Black people from inside a government jury room effectively dedicated to the...
On Government Invasions of Private Property
The execution of a search warrant on the home of former President Donald Trump has brought to mind a dark and dangerous side of law enforcement. The idea of government agents rummaging through the private possessions on the private property of anyone against that...
Four Early American Heroes Whose Revolutionary Careers Ended in Humiliation
Revolutionary War history is filled with heroes and villains, and which is which depends on which side of the Atlantic you were sitting. Here in the United States, our history textbooks mention every one of the names on this list, a memory of their valuable...Obiter Dicta
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GEORGIA: Bill backed by Confederate monument defenders knocked down in the Georgia House Sponsor argued his bill would protect all monuments, not just Confederate monuments A bill backed by neo-Confederates Read More