Despite It All I’m Still a Patriot

Despite It All I’m Still a Patriot

On the eve of our nation’s 249th birthday, a Gallup poll finds that only 58% of Americans feel “extremely” or “very” proud of their country. This is a new low in the 25 years Gallup has been asking this question, and the reasons are not...
News From Around the South, 6/30 to 7/7

News From Around the South, 6/30 to 7/7

SOUTH CAROLINA: SC Play Tells Story Of Gullah Geechee Experience During Revolutionary War When George Washington goes to heaven in the Gullah Traveling Theater’s telling of the American Revolution, Saint Peter stops him at the pearly gates. The country’s first...
Despite It All I’m Still a Patriot

Independence Day, 2025

We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants a few miles away? Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4th 1776? When the...
Despite It All I’m Still a Patriot

Who Is An American?

So now all the babies born to undocumented parents in the 28 states that didn’t challenge President Donald Trump’s executive order will have to sue (anonymously, of course, lest this administration deport them, which it would if it could find them) to...
News From Around the South, 6/23 to 6/30

News From Around the South, 6/23 to 6/30

SOUTH CAROLINA: Carolina Day marks 249th anniversary of triumph on Sullivan’s Island SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. — Saturday is Carolina Day, marking the 249th anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan’s Island during the Revolutionary War. The battle was the...