News From Around the South 9/19 to 9/26
VIRGINIA: Despite Alexandria Council Vote, Little Chance Appomattox Statue Will Be Removed ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The mayor of Alexandria met with the president of the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the first time last week, hoping to...
Clinton, Obama, First Heal Yourselves on Race
Hillary Clinton is the worst kind of political animal, one who will exploit anything for political gain, distort facts and shift her positions at will for votes, significantly more than your garden-variety pandering politician. Remember when Clinton was for the Iraq...
Debating the Future
The presidential debates, especially this year’s first scheduled one — at New York’s Hofstra University on the night of Sept. 26 — are really a national job interview. We the people will have a chance to make our own judgments on the character,...
News From Around the South 9/12 to 9/19
NORTH CAROLINA: Fayetteville Civil War Museum Would Have Wilmington Ties Fundraising has begun for a proposed $65 million N.C. Civil War History Center, scheduled to open in 2020 in Fayetteville. “We want to tell the whole story, not just (focus on)...
Free Speech
Donald Trump tells reporters, “We’re going to have people sue you like you never got sued before.” Hillary Clinton doesn’t like her opponents funding documentaries that criticize her, so she demands Congress overturn the Supreme Court decision...Obiter Dicta
The one thing you can’t make when you get old is old friends. Pam Fleischaker was one of my oldest Read More
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VIRGINIA: UVA Press cancels book critical of leading Southern food figures In early 2025, University of Virginia Press announced the forthcoming release of “The Strange Career of Cornbread Nationalism.” The Read More