Crowded GOP Field Will Thin Itself by 2016
These are nervous times for Republicans. After losing an election that should have been a cakewalk, Mitt Romney is back for more. After years of middling performance and sagging approval, Barack Obama’s ratings have risen to roughly where Ronald Reagan’s...News From Around the South 1/21 to 1/26
VIRGINIA: More Civil War-Era Graffiti Found CULPEPER, Va. — More Civil War-era writing has been found in the historic Graffiti House in Brandy Station. Brandy Station Foundation president Jim McKinney tells the Culpeper Star-Exponent it’s the first time...The South's 'Pullitzer headlock'
It’s often claimed all American culture stems from Southern culture, with its wide-spreading, moss-dripping branches. Music thought of as American — jazz, blues, country, bluegrass, rock, R&B, soul, funk, gospel, zydeco and Appalachian folk — either arose...
Restate of the Union
President Obama sure is consistent. His State of the Union address sounded like his other speeches: What I’ve done is great! America is in a much better position. We’ve created a manufacturing sector that’s adding jobs. More oil is produced at home....News From Around the South 1/12 – 1/19
VIRGINIA: State to be Scene for New PBS Civil War Drama PBS appears to be discovering that drama happens on this side of the pond, too. After being wedded for so long to British-centric scripted series, including the mega-hit “Downton Abbey,”...Obiter Dicta
One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress’s constitutional authority over war. Read More
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