News From Around the South 5/4 to 5/11
SOUTH CAROLINA: State Offices Closed for Confederate Memorial Day COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – State offices across South Carolina are closing for Confederate Memorial Day. The holiday itself was Sunday, marking 152 years since Southern Gen. Stonewall Thomas...
Hollywood’s Climate Change Hypocrites
Hollywood and global-warming panic have always been a natural match. After all, who can tell you better to cut back on your wasteful ways better than a high-flying multimillionaire movie star with the carbon footprint of a Tyrannosaurus rex? It’s never mattered...
Six Generals Who Fought Against their Home States
For many Americans, choosing a side in the Civil War was no easy task. While most people simply sided with their home state, others struggled with family pressures, personal political beliefs and their devotion to the federal government. Unwilling to break their...
Review: Crucible of Command
For serious historians of the Civil War, William C. Davis is the ultimate go-to source for reliable information on a conflict that spawned a staggering amount of mythology. He is the author of more than 50 books on the war and the South, and until recently was...
Hillary Blames the Cops
Had Freddie Gray been robbed, beaten and left to die in the streets of his Baltimore neighborhood, no one would be mourning him today. No one would be marching for Freddie. No one would be using Freddie as the new poster child of “Black Lives Matter!” No...Obiter Dicta
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