#MeToo: Hillary and Monica Edition
WASHINGTON — There is a growing debate on the left over whose side to take in the simmering controversy between Monica Lewinsky and former President Bill Clinton or the Clintons, depending on how long Hillary Clinton remains loyal to Bill, or, come to think of it, how...
Trump Administration Gets Civil War History Wrong — Again
Attorney General Jeff Sessions might need to brush up on his US history. During a speech last week on California’s sanctuary laws, he did something unexpected: He compared California to Southern states that seceded from the Union before the US Civil War. The attorney...
News From Around the South 3/6 to 3/12
MARYLAND: Civil War Monument Where 58 Dead NC Soldiers Were Thrown Into Well Vandalized A North Carolina Civil War monument at Maryland’s South Mountain State Battlefield was vandalized over the weekend. The Friends of South Mountain Battlefield posted images of the...
Old Slave Mart Gets New Life
When Charleston’s Old Slave Mart Museum opened its doors on Feb. 21, 1938, the privately run tourist attraction was a ball of contradictions. Founded by an Ohio transplant, the site made many white Charlestonians uncomfortable by putting a part of its slave...
Tariffs Are Taxes
One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that, with tariffs and import quotas, we do to ourselves in times of peace what foreign nations do to us with blockades to keep imports from entering our country in times of war. Or consider that we impose sanctions on U.S....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