The Death of a Hero
The president’s former campaign chairman stands convicted of eight felony counts. The president’s formal personal lawyer is pleading guilty and cooperating. No one is above the law but the president. And with his help, all his friends are, too. What does...
Last Flag Flown Ready for Display
COLUMBIA — The last Confederate flag flown on Statehouse grounds will be on display at South Carolina’s military history museum within the next few months, though exactly where remains uncertain. After three years of wrangling over exhibit costs and space, Confederate...
The Opioid Lawsuit Crisis
Money-grabbing politicians looking to cover the whopping costs of the opioid crisis are filing more than a thousand lawsuits against the prescription painkiller industry. That’s like suing the fast-food industry to pay all the societal costs of obesity....
News From Around the South 8/13 to 8/20
NORTH CAROLINA: Protesters Topple Confederate Monument at UNC CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — More than 200 protesters toppled a controversial Confederate statue on the campus of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill on Monday. Video footage showed the crowd jeering...
Confederacy’s Last Stand in Brazil
By the time the Civil War ended in 1865, much of the South lay in ruins, physically, economically and socially. Fears of Yankee reprisals and racial conflict percolated through society. Black slaves had been freed; Confederate President Jefferson Davis was imprisoned....Obiter Dicta
In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: New S.C. license plate honors Revolutionary War history COLUMBIA – Beginning Jan. 1, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles will issue a newly designed standard license plate that Read More