The Old Political Game
Politics being politics, and politicians being politicians, Americans have figured out how, along with sore throats and violent coughing, the coronavirus causes finger-pointing, loud talking and endless credit-claiming. The best remedy I know of: huge handfuls of salt...
News From Around the South 3/23 to 3/30
NORTH CAROLINA: Southern Equality Group Offering Grants to COVID-19 Sufferers ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The Campaign for Southern Equality announced on Wednesday it would dedicate $25,000 in emergency assistance funding for LGBT southerners impacted by the COVID-19...
Beware a Government of Fear
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) One of my Fox colleagues recently sent me an email attachment of a painting of the framers signing the...
COVID-19 Tests Rural Health Care
The COVID-19 coronavirus has arrived in the rural South. Harrison County in central Kentucky is the epicenter of the outbreak in that state; at least six people there have been infected, and more than 150 are self-quarantined. And the main hospital in rural Southwest...
News From Around the South 3/16 to 3/23
VIRGINIA: Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss Confederate Flag Case LOUISA COUNTY, Va. — A judge is denying a motion by Louisa County to dismiss a lawsuit in connection with a giant Confederate flag. The 30-by-50 foot flag has flown high on private property in the county,...Obiter Dicta
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FLORIDA: Will a Florida museum on Black history tell whole story? Some worry it won’t Florida’s proposal to create a statewide Black history museum prompted interest, and then glossy reports, Read More