Latest Flag Battle In Unlikely Place
Last month, the debate over the public display of Confederate flags and monuments boiled over in Tucson, when city council member Lane Santa Cruz pushed the town to ban the Confederate flag, which had been carried by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, from the city’s...
In Pandemic, It’s Every Nation For Itself
“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time,” said Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey to a friend on the eve of Britain’s entry into the First World War. Observing from afar as the coronavirus pandemic...
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Confederate Group Criticizes Marine Plan To Ban Paraphernalia CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Marine Corps’ top officer is hoping to ban all Confederate paraphernalia from its bases worldwide, a decision that has agitated one of South Carolina’s largest...
South’s Best BBQ By State
ALABAMA Dreamland Bar-B-Que, Tuscaloosa Ribs are the name of the game here. They’re long and thin and have a wonderful chewy texture and crisp bits of char around the edges. There are 10 locations in three states, but the Tuscaloosa original is an undisputed Alabama...
Is This How Europe Ends?
“Fortress Europe is an illusion.” So declares the Financial Times in the closing line of its Saturday editorial: “Europe Cannot Ignore Syrian Migrant Crisis.” The FT undertakes to instruct the Old Continent on what its duty is and what its...Obiter Dicta
In the last days of East Germany, when government officials detected that their power was unraveling, they ratcheted up enforcement Read More
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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