Beware What You Wish For
President Donald Trump wants revenge. He has made getting even the centerpiece of his administration, as if vengeance is a popular or attractive response. It isn’t. Over the weekend, Trump asked Attorney General Pam Bondi on Truth Social why “nothing is...
News From Around the South, 9/22 to 9/29
SOUTH CAROLINA: Misconceptions of a Civil War general’s time in Columbia persist, historians say COLUMBIA — Many who grew up in South Carolina have a very particular picture of Gen. William Sherman’s March through the state. One shaped by historical accounts passed...
Free Speech and Its Discontents
“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press …...
S.C. BBQ Joint Named Best in South
A highly regarded West Columbia restaurant has been named the top barbecue joint in the South by Southern Living magazine. City Limits Barbeque, located at 1119 Methodist Park Road, was No. 1 on Southern Living’s Top 50 BBQ Joints in the South list for 2025, which was...
This Is Not Funny
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, told a right-wing podcaster, “this” being the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. They did it the easy way. All Carr had to do was speak...Obiter Dicta
Just after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a New York Times/Siena poll found that Americans believe polarization is the second Read More
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NORTH CAROLINA: In a Private Park in North Carolina, Confederate Statues Are Rising Again A state law limits what can happen to a Confederate statue after it is removed. Valor Read More