News From Around the South 8/31 to 9/7
SOUTH CAROLINA: Deal To Move Confederate Monument In Works GREENVILLE, S.C. — The leader of an activist group engaged in a summer-long protest against a Confederate statue in downtown Greenville claims a compromise has been reached with the city to move the...
Has President Trump Incited Violence?
All states have laws that prohibit assault and destruction of others’ property. States and the federal government also have laws that prohibit bystanders from encouraging others to engage in violence. The latter is known as incitement. When violence has erupted...
A Grave Dilemma: When Remains Are Part of a Monument
As in the rest of the country, things are starting to heat up in America’s oldest city when it comes to Confederate monuments. Similar to Lt. General Ambrose P. Hill’s monument and gravesite, Major General William W. Loring’s burial site in St. Augustine, Florida, is...
Diversity, Exclusivity and Inclusion Nonsense
Check out any professional and most college basketball teams. Their starting five, and most of their other 10 players, are black, as is 80% of the NBA. This does not come anywhere close to the diversity and inclusion sought by the nation’s social justice...
News From Around the South 8/24 to 8/31
MISSISSIPPI: The Man Behind the Mosquito Flag It took a 33-year-old Michelangelo four years to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but 26-year-old Thomas Rosete needed just five minutes to create the Mosquito Flag. Rosete is no student of vexillology. He had...Obiter Dicta
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NORTH CAROLINA: Two ‘Human’Caused’ Fires Found at 16th Century Historic Site Two fires were discovered simultaneously at a North Carolina historic site dedicated to England’s first settlements on the continent — and Read More